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Live slides from a conversation with Alec Couros' EC&I831 class about the risks of social media participation for educators & scholars, as well as the very real connections and caring that can emerge in the process.
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NETWORKED IDENTITY: Networks of Care & Vulnerability !
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Bonnie Stewart
University of Prince Edward Island
What do you want to be when you grow up?
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Wrong question.
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What do you want to contribute?
Twitter = currently the most open network
Networked identities differ from roles
Always Multiple
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Always Hybrid
Always Connected
What are those connections made of?
SIGNALS
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Social networks are made of people. And signals.
Digital Communication Signals
• Persistant – automatically recorded & archived
• Replicable – can be duplicated with minimal cost & effort
• Scalable – can be amplified & go viral
• Searchable – automatically tagged with metadata - boyd (2010)
Vulnerabilities in how signals are shared
Context Collapse
…that awkward moment when you remember you friended your grandma on Facebook.
Or that your students – or your VP, or your new boss – follow you on Twitter.
Quantified self
“The internet is on principle a system that you reveal yourself to in order to fully
enjoy, which differentiates it from, say, a music player. It is a TV that watches you.”
- Edward Snowden, in The Washington Post
Identity theft
(+ teasing from friends)
Vulnerabilities in how signals are heard
Technical + societal vulnerabilities + scale =
BOOM
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“You’re doing it wrong”
“The more dangerous social-web-fueled gamification of trolling is the unofficial troll/
hate leader-board. The attacks on you are often less about scoring points
against you than that they’re trying to out-do one another. They’re trying to
out-troll, out-hate, out-awful the other trolls.”
- Sierra (2014)
“You do not deserve attention”
“You do not deserve to live”
Platforms default to powerful voices
So, just stay home and hide?
Digital signals are basic communications, in our time.
‘He said, "I'm going to give you the same advice that I give to everyone else with this problem: Stop
using social media and get rid of your computer.”
Nicole replied that she wasn't the one who had a problem with the computer—it was Adam who had
that problem.’
- Beaumont (2014)
Resistance requires reconceptualization
Networked Identities l Aware of being
watched
l Aware of scale of attention
l Build identity by repetition
l Build ties by visible communications
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Networks of Care
Hyperpersonal communications
Communications via limited-cues channels allows selective self-presentation and
increased sense of commonality without the interference of non-verbal cues, limited
cognitive resources, or temporal constraints.
Professional value
Learning value
Teaching value
Immersion value
Accountability value
Support value
Connection value
Recognition value
Visibility value
Caring value
Two sides of the attention economy
“The attention economy…isn't just about clicks and eyeballs, but also about the
ways in which we selectively tend towards each other, and tend each other's thoughts -- it's an economy of care, not just a map to
markets.”
- Bowles (2014)
A way to contribute and speak back
Networked contributions > individual
Be the signal you want to see in the world
• Signal intentionally • Signal to build up others, not just
yourself • Signal broadly • Signal patiently
• Signal what you want to contribute
Understanding networked identity signals = key literacy for
21st century citizens.
