fordham workshop for scholars
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Jessie Daniels, PhD – Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Fordham University | Visiting Scholar Workshop26 February 2016
The Changing Landscape of Being a Scholar
Twitter: @JessieNYC
legacy academic scholarship
learning from journalism
pre-21st century, analog, closed, removed from the public sphere, monastic
“legacy”
This was the only option for publishing.
We typed words & paragraphs on paper.
That technology had some problems.
This was “cut and paste.”
This is where we would go to find & read information.
This is how we looked things up.
Many journals or books not open & accessible.
Measuring “Impact”
How many inches?
expansion of digital technologies
what is ‘digital’ & why does it matter?
changing scholarship
peer-review is changing
changing pedagogy
(2012)
(2013)
DeMillo Still Sees a ‘Revolution’ (2015)
From ‘MOOC’ to ‘POOC’
changing activism
‘Battle of Seattle’ (1999)
Jena 6 Protests (2006)
Occupy Wall Street (2011)
Tahrir Square (2013)
#BlackLivesMatter (2013-Present)
changing the scholar-activist
2004
Unique Visitors (each month): ~ 200,000Total Visitors (since 2007): 2.7 million
Individual Blog Posts: 1,790Comments from readers: 10,563Subscribers: 10,268Authors: 150
Scholar-Activism within the Academy
• “mobs in cyberspace”
• “holy warriors” (faculty)
Scholar-Activism within the Academy
“What we are left with is the question of how a traditional university can be governed in an age of the vast but unaccountable Internet Empires like Twitter and Facebook.” ~ (DeMillo, 2015 p. 261)
DeMillo inadvertently makes the case for
the use of social media for
activism within the academy
publishing is changing
how we produce knowledge is changing
how we measure success
is changing
‘altmetrics’metrics
Evidence of Reputation
“altmetrics”
Open Access Increases Impact
21st century, digital, open, connected to the public sphere, worldly
“digital”
digitallegacy
sociopolitical context of academia
funding is changing
democracycommerce
@ 365 Fifth Avenue
MediaCamp Workshops
for Academics, Activists
Opening Education, Linking to Community
Community Activist: Ethel Velez
videos open to anyone
readings open to anyone
Knowledge Streams
activismscholarship
Data Maps
Data Visualizations
Produced 4 e-Books
Infographics
Podcast Series
“metrics that matter”
Changing Landscape
Workshop Pageshttp://bit.ly/FordhamWorkshop
• Share Your Already-Published Research in Your Repository (http://fordham.bepress.com/)
• Reflect, Negotiate Before You Agree to Publish (http://bit.ly/BeforeYouPublish)
• A Webspace of One’s Own (https://www.weebly.com/home/)
• Twitter Resources for Academics (http://bit.ly/TwitterAcademics )
• Blogging Resources for Academics (http://bit.ly/BloggingAcademics)
Twitter: @JessieNYC
Thank you!
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