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This is Me Digital Identity and Reputation for Academics

This is Me Digital Identity and Reputation for Academics. Professor Shirley Williams University of Reading, UK. Workshop on Users, e-Research, and Web 2.0, Oxford January 2010. Rugby and Reputation. http://www.flickr.com/photos/60892750@N00/4181066513/sizes/o/in/set-72157594271646013/.

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This is Me Digital Identity and Reputation for Academics

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  1. This is MeDigital Identity and Reputation for Academics Professor Shirley Williams University of Reading, UK Workshop on Users, e-Research, and Web 2.0, Oxford January 2010

  2. Rugby and Reputation http://www.flickr.com/photos/60892750@N00/4181066513/sizes/o/in/set-72157594271646013/ rugby www.rugby-pioneers.com

  3. Would Babbage Have Blogged? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Babbage_1860.jpg

  4. Identity and Performance • “...all human identities are by definition social identities. Identifying ourselves or others is a matter of meaning, and meaning always involves interaction: agreement and disagreement, convention and innovation, communication and negotiation.” Jenkins, 2004 • “…using the term ‘performance’ to refer to all the activity of an individual which occurs during a period …before a particular set of observers…” Goffman, 1959

  5. Academic Identity 1 The Academic’s work: • Lectures • Letters • Papers • etc http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babbage_difference_engine.JPG

  6. Academic Identity 2 Others • Joint work • Peer review • Citations • Funding • etc http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Ada_lovelace.jpg

  7. Digital Identity • We use the term "digital identity" (DI) to describe the persona an individual presents across all the digital spaces that he/she is represented in (performances in Digital Places)

  8. Digital Academic Identity http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredcavazza/3428921418/

  9. Have you ever Googled yourself? Volunteer?

  10. Or Binged a Visiting Academic

  11. Findings • Material that the participant had posted themselves (and maybe forgotten); • Material posted by other people (that maybe the participant was unaware of). http://www.flickr.com/photos/spine/2076729686/

  12. Question What has the most impact: • A journal paper cited 10 times? • A blog post linked to from100 places? • A tweet seen by 10,000?

  13. Look After Your Digital Identity or someone else may do • Don’t think you can hide • Keep track of accounts you set up • Consider separate identities for work and play • Think before you post

  14. This Is Me - Outputs Website http://reading.ac.uk/thisisme Workbook Games Leaflets

  15. By-products • Use by other universities • Re-purposed by Nancy White for NPO/NGO Folks • Arabic translation

  16. Acknowledgements • The This is Me Project was originally funded by Eduserv; now funded by CCMS • Team members include: Pat Parslow, Sarah Fleming, Richard Hussey, Karsten Lundqvist, David Stanbury, Finbar Mulholland and Sarah Morey • Other contributors are from the University of Reading and beyond

  17. You can find me at: Email: shirley.williams@reading.ac.uk Twitter, delicious, Skype: shirleyearley Blog: http://redgloo.sse.reading.ac.uk/ssswills/weblog Second Life: Rosie Luna etc Thank you

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