An examination of digital spaces as sites of identity and citizenship, for higher ed leaders, faculty, staff, and students. Outlines open practice along market, knowledge abundance, and participatory axes, and presents #Antigonish2 as a potential model for making a difference in our contemporary information ecosystem, at global & local levels.
15. Empires are constructed from
money, territory, & information.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrovezini/4995737599
16. Identity is the price of admission.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/143601516@N03/28011015990http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelotuscarroll/6842167375/
28. Surveilled spaces
“When you work for a company or an institution that collects or trades
data, you’re making it easy to surveil people…you’re making it easy to
discipline people. You’re making it easy to control people. You’re putting
people at risk. You’re putting students at risk.”
- Audrey Watters, 2017
http://hackeducation.com/2017/02/02/ed-tech-and-trump
30. The prestige economies of open scholarship &
conventional scholarship intersect, creating benefits.
n an attention economy, visibility matters.
31. People without wealth are at a disadvantage.
But open citizenship is often built on
free labour.
32. The more things
change…
Given that higher
ed is already
stratified, we
need to ensure
the Open practices
we model do not
increase citizens’
disadvantages.
34. "For the first time in human history, two related
propositions are true. One, it no longer is possible to
store within the human brain all of the information that
a human needs.
Second, it no longer is necessary to store within the
human brain all of the information that humans need.
Education needs to be geared toward the handling of
data rather than the accumulation of data.”
- Berlo, 1975
35. This demands open content + open
practice…+ media literacy
http://blogs.ifla.org/lpa/files/2017/01/How-to-Spot-Fake-News-1.jpg
36. But media literacy is not enough.
If abundance demands the handling of data, not
only our media & educational
practices need to change, but what we
count as KNOWING.
46. *
¤ None of this is new…but it all
contributes to an information
ecosystem in which people feel
cynical and confronted –
by difference, by jealousy, by
challenges to their worldviews, by
blatant efforts to deceive – all in the
same spaces.
49. We need new stories.
We don’t have positive cultural narratives for
healthy participation in the Open, nor a vision
of what that would mean.
http://gossipgenie.com/viewpoint-im-a-social-media-addict/
50. The more signals & traces we create…
The more we likely we are to make someone
feel confronted.
51. Add in virtue signalling…
…and tactical contrarianism
56. None of this is new.
Not the spectacle.
Not the sexism.
Not the racism.
Not the polarization.
We the citizens have made this place.
57. To build citizens for abundance &
participation, we need to practice
collaboration.
- Mike Caulfield
@holden
58. We need to focus our attention on the parts of
the Open – and of media, and of society –
that are NOT polarized.
And build new practices of citizenship
62. Moses Coady
& Jimmy Tompkins
1. Take the time to
understand our
circumstances & the
structures that shape
our prospects
2. Take the risk of
working together to
put pressure on those
structures in the places
we can move them
63. An adult education movement
Literacy, economic cooperation,
rural community development, empowerment
64. 3 Layer Model:
1. Mass Meetings
2. School For Leaders
3. Study Clubs