Workshop for students who are thinking about their digital identities (social, civic, political, scholarly, pre-professional) and their use of social media and networked publics. Slides are shared here for students as well as for partners in the @AllAboardIE and @DigiChampsNUIG projects.

1. ImageCCBY-NC-ND2.0FredericPoirot
social media, digital identity & me
Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin Digital Champions, NUIG, 18 Feb 2016

2. workshop for students
as part of Digital Champions
student-staff partnership
@DigiChampsNUIG
@EXPLOREnuigsu
@nuigalway

3. 4#hashtags
#ge16  #hometovote  #refugees  #digilit

4. Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 Roo Reynolds
Networked Publics
danah boyd
@zephoria
danah.org
space constructed
through
networked technologies
the imagined collective
which emerges
(people + tech + practice)

5. Participatory Culture:
low barriers to
artistic expression & civic engagement
strong support for
creating & sharing
informal mentorship
members believe their
contributions matter
social connection
Henry Jenkins
@henryjenkins
henryjenkins.org

6. multimodal
multimedia ✓ voice / choice
networked ✓ topic / content
social ✓ genre / tone
purposeful ✓ space / place
collaborative ✓ time / duration
agentic
Participatory Culture
literacy practices

7. “I don’t think
education is about
centralized instruction
anymore; rather, it is
the process [of]
establishing oneself
as a node in a broad
network of distributed
creativity.”
@Joi Ito (2011)
Slide: CC-BY-SA catherinecronin Image: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 yobink

8. networked
educators
networked
students
Physical
Spaces
Bounded
Online
Spaces
Open
Online
Spaces
Higher Education
Image: CC BY-SA 2.0 Catherine Cronin, built on original Networked Teacher image by Alec Couros

9. so… what inhibits you? what inhibits us?
social
academic
/profession
al
private public

10. WHO YOU SHARE with
context collapse
WHO YOU SHARE as
digital identity

11. Slide courtesy of Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart
CC BY 4.0 bonstewart http://www.slideshare.net/bonstewart/academic-twitter-the-intersection-of-orality-literacy-in-scholarship

12. ImageCCBY-NC-ND2.0FredericPoirot
digital identity
+ privacy

13. As studies become more contextualised it
seems that the real lesson of online identity is
not that it transforms identity but that it makes
us more aware that offline identity was already
more multiple, culturally contingent and
contextual than we had appreciated.
Danny Miller (2013)
@dannyanth
Photo by George Miller
(used with permission)
“

14. digital dualism
physical world digital world
‘REAL’ ‘VIRTUAL’

15. ...our reality is both technological and organic,
both digital and physical, all at once. We are not
crossing in and out of separate digital and
physical realities, a la The Matrix, but instead live
in one reality, one that is augmented by atoms
and bits.
Nathan Jurgenson (2011)
@nathanjurgenson
Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality

16. It is wrong to say “IRL” to mean offline:
Facebook is real life.
Nathan Jurgenson (2012)
The IRL Fetish

17. so… what to do?
social
academic
/profession
al
private public

18. some ideas for discussion…

19.  Take ownership of your digital identity;
think about your online hub(s).
 Consider privacy settings & openness;
balance between these will vary depending
on your aims and the tool you use.
 When new to any tool or online space: first
observe, listen & learn, then engage in
conversations & contribute.

20. about.me/catherinecronin

21. CONNECT DO SHARE
CC BY-NC 2.0
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22.  Take ownership of your digital identity;
think about your online hub(s).
 Consider privacy settings & openness;
balance between these will vary depending
on your aims and the tool you use.
 When new to any tool or online space: first
observe, listen & learn, then engage in
conversations & contribute.
 Enjoy! 

23. Thank you!
Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin
slideshare.net/cicronin
about.me/catherinecronin

24. References
boyd, danah (2010) Social network sites as networked publics: Affordances, dynamics,
and implications, In Papacharissi, Z. (ed.), Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on
Social Network Sites, Routledge, New York.
Ito, Joi (2011, December 5) In an open-source society, innovating by the seat of our
pants. The New York Times.
Jenkins, Henry (2006) Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media
Education for the 21st Century. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
Chicago.
Jurgenson, Nathan (2011) Digital dualism versus augmented reality. Cyborgology.
Jurgenson, Nathan (2012) The IRL Fetish. The New Inquiry.
Stewart, Bonnie (2015) Open to influence: What counts as academic influence in
scholarly networked Twitter participation. Learning, Media and Technology 40(3), pp 1-
23.
Stewart, Bonnie (2016) Academic Twitter: The intersection of orality and literacy in
scholarship? Slideshare.