This document summarizes Bonnie Stewart's presentation on reputation, identity, and influence in scholarly networks. Stewart discusses how online networks enable different forms of identity and legitimacy than traditional academic institutions. Networks require new literacies to understand how they function as reputational economies. Stewart conducted an ethnography of academics on Twitter and blogs, observing how participants gain dissemination advantages and access to conversations by participating in networks, but also face challenges like positioning fatigue. Networks allow marginalized voices to speak back to academia, media, and culture.

1. Reputation, identity, & influence
in scholarly networks
Bonnie Stewart
University of Prince Edward Island
Networked Learning Conference 2014

2. Premise:
Online networks enable different forms of
identity, legitimacy,and belonging
than institutions do

3. Networks Require Literacies
+ ACADEMICS

4. Networks & institutions
are both reputational economies
networked
scholarly
practices
institutional
scholarly
practices

5. Those within the academy become
very skilled at judging the stuff of reputations.
Where has the person’s work been published,
what claims of priority in discovery have
they established, how often have they been
cited, how and where reviewed, what
prizes won, what institutional ties earned, what
organizations led?
(Willinsky, 2010, p. 297).

6. Networked Reputations
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7. Academic Networked Publics
• Overlapping global networks
• Always accessible
• Visible, traceable, searchable identities
• Different audiences all in plain sight

8. My Research
• Ethnography
• 14 (13) participants, 8 exemplars
• 3 months of participant observation on Twitter & blogs
• 10 interviews

9. Literacies for understanding
academic networked publics
Institutions Networks
product-focused process-focused
mastery participation
bounded by time/space always accessible
hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties
plagiarism crowdsourcing
influence in role influence in reputation
audience = teacher audience = world

10. Dissemination Advantage

11. Community

12. Connection
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13. Access to the Conversation

14. Speaking from the Margins

15. Speaking Back to Academia

16. Visioning Beyond Academia

17. Speaking Back to Media/Culture

18. Liability & Constraint

19. Positioning Fatigue

20. Thank you. J
@bonstewart
bstewart@upei.ca