Digital Scholarship &
Digitally Engaged Publics
W. Ian O’Byrne
@wiobyrne
Literacy & Technology are changing process & product. Need to empower ALL
academics to read, AND write the web.
Tweetable Summary
Genesis - http://bit.ly/digitalpublics
Where we’re headed:
1. Digital identity & writing yourself into being�2. Discuss shifts in literacy & technology�3. Moving from consumers, to curators, to creators
Tools we’ll use: Search engines, BYOB, Google Slides
Open up a place to write. Describe yourself in six words.��Turn to your neighbor & share your name.
Looking at our digital identities.
“Google” your neighbor. Take notes.��Pay attention to what you find...and where you find it.
Looking at our digital identities.
Come back to your neighbor & share what you found.
Tell your neighbor who they are...based on what you found online.
Looking at our digital identities.
�What identity do you want to present online?�
What identity did your neighbor describe?
Looking at our digital identities.
Opportunities & challenges with Digital Scholarship
Increasingly Digital
Privacy & Security Concerns
Balance between good & evil
Tomorrow’s technologies
& literacies
Reasons to be a
Digital Scholar
False dichotomy
between online & offline
CC0 Jenny Addison
Share your work & ideas
CC0 RawPixel
Develop a PLN
CC0 RawPixel
Build your digital identity
CC0 Timon Klauser
My first principles
Focus on process
in your workflow
CC0 Rena Tom
Device agnostic policy
CC0 Luke Wroblewskir
Ubiquitous access to data
Archive (& possibly share)
all of your materials through your online learning hub
Who are you?
Who would you like to be?
Digital Natives
@marcprensky
Visitors & Residents
@daveowhite
Personal
Cyberinfrastructure
@GardnerCampbell
Visitors & Residents
Visitors & Residents
Mapping Process
Map out your interactions online.
Discuss with your neighbors.
Bring it back to the large group.
Be the expert.
How to make it happen
First principles thinking is boiling a process down to the fundamental parts that you know are true & building from there.
Process & workflow...not tools
Create and curate
your digital identity
CC0 Captain Pancakes
CC0 Captain Pancakes
Digitize your workflow
Build online/hybrid learning opportunities ��
CC0 Raw Pixel
Build an online learning
& research hub
Archive materials
& (possibly) share
CC0 Hulisi Kayaci
Reflect, revise, rinse, recycle
CC0 Daria Nepriakhina
Want more? Yeap...we’ve got links. :)
Next steps. Stay in touch.
High Tech ≠
High Touch
Look back at that person you Googled earlier.
Re-Introduce yourself. Share ways you’ll connect digitally.
Make a pact to teach, learn, & share with one another.
What do you do when you walk out of these doors?
Thanks!
Any questions ?
I am social. Please keep in touch.
Digital Scholarship &
Digitally Engaged Publics
W. Ian O’Byrne
@wiobyrne