Networked Participatory Scholarship: Emergent techno-cultural pressures toward open and digital scholarship in online networks

  • Authors:
  • George Veletsianos;Royce Kimmons

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at Austin, United States;University of Texas at Austin, United States

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Education
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We examine the relationship between scholarly practice and participatory technologies and explore how such technologies invite and reflect the emergence of a new form of scholarship that we call Networked Participatory Scholarship: scholars' participation in online social networks to share, reflect upon, critique, improve, validate, and otherwise develop their scholarship. We discuss emergent techno-cultural pressures that may influence higher education scholars to reconsider some of the foundational principles upon which scholarship has been established due to the limitations of a pre-digital world, and delineate how scholarship itself is changing with the emergence of certain tools, social behaviors, and cultural expectations associated with participatory technologies.