a little bird told me: social media and academic identity(s)
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A Little Bird Told Me: Social Media and
Academic Identity(s)Chris Ashford
Reader in Law and SocietyFaculty of Business and Law
@lawandsexuality
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Jorn Barger, ‘weblog’ in 1997
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Peter Merholz – ‘blog’ 1999
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Evan Williams, Biz Stone – Pyra Labs
Twitter - 2006
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Arab Spring The Stephen Fry Twitter Phenomenon Blur – single launch Rio 2012 – 1992
In excess of 500 million users by April 2012
The Culture Shift
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140 characters – ‘tweets’ On your desktop or mobile device Integrated – e.g. iPad ‘Friends’ and ‘Followers’
Sharing information Social
What the devil is this befuddling tool of wonder?
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Mention Favourite Direct Messages (DM) The Hashtag # Follow Friday #ff RT - Retweet HT - HatTip
Twitter Mechanics
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Twitter https://twitter.com/ Echofon http://www.echofon.com/ Tweetdeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/ Tweetdeck (yellow)
http://theultralinx.com/2012/03/old-tweetdeck-download.html
Tweetbot http://tapbots.com/software/tweetbot/ Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com/
Platforms
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Using Twitter: Professional
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Using Twitter: Audience & Clarity
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Using Twitter: Personality
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Using Twitter: Engagement & Impact
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Using Twitter: Beyond the Lecture
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Using Twitter: Be Social!
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Acceptability
What am I saying? To whom am I saying it? What about student usage? Private Vs Public speech The Law – ‘flaming’ – Twitter Joke Trial
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Paul Chambers Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve
got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!
Twitter Joke Trial
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A person is guilty of an offence if he— (a) sends by means of a public
electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or
(b) causes any such message or matter to be so sent.
The Communications Act 2003
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Who am I? Teacher? Researcher? Husband? Wife? Civil Partner? Manager? Celebrity? Politician? Academic? Breaking out of the Academy? Challenging ‘professionalisation’ of
academia?
Status
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Identity Authenticity? Goffman – ‘performance’ of identity Cownie – application to the Law Teacher
@uoslec2012
What are the boundaries?