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Academic persona: the construction of online reputation in the modern academy

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posted on 2017-08-07, 00:00 authored by David MarshallDavid Marshall, K Barbour, C Moore
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