Through a longitudinal study of 16 academics, this chapter explore the way the contemporary academic constructs their online presence. The persona is a complex and varied combination of professional, private, personal, teacherly, networked public identities that individual academics attempt to manage. This new reputation work is handled with differing and transforming levels of digital literacy and intersects with the transformation of academic value that is reorganizing reputation through the higher education sector.
History
Chapter number
4
Pagination
47-62
ISBN-13
9781315473598
ISBN-10
1315473593
Language
eng
Publication classification
B1 Book chapter
Copyright notice
2018, Routledge
Extent
12
Editor/Contributor(s)
Lupton D, Mewburn I, Thomson P
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
Abingdon, Eng.
Title of book
The digital academic critical perspectives on digital technologies in higher education