What does academic influence mean in an age of information abundance? This keynote delivered at the University of Edinburgh's #elearninged conference explores the idea of authenticity in the context of networked scholarship, and outlines ongoing research into why scholars use networks and how they read each others' reputations and credibility within them.
6. Those within the academy become āØ
very skilled at judging the stuļ¬ of
reputations. Where has the personās work
been published, what claims of āØ
priority in discovery haveāØ
they established, how often have they been
cited, how and where reviewed, what āØ
prizes won, what institutional ties earned,
what organizations led? āØ
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(Willinsky, 2010)
10. dissemination
of knowledge
what people
had for lunch
CHANGE IN
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Premise:
Online networks enable diļ¬erent forms of
identity, legitimacy, and belonging
than institutions do