Digital Identit(y/ies)
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Presentation at the Challenging the Binaries international conference, hosted by the Centre for the Study of Literacies at the School of Education, University of Sheffield, 29 June 2012. http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/research/groups/csnl/conference/index
Digital Identit(y/ies)
- 1. Digital Identit(y/ies) Andy Coverdale Challenging the Binaries University of Sheffield | 29 June 2012
- 2. Image Jens Hesse | Woman (African) | oil on corduroy (2011) http://www.jenshesse.com Digital Identity Socio足technical and virtuality constructs Identity is multiphrenic (Gergan, 2000) Identity as reified forms of social and cultural practice
- 3. Doctoral Context PhD as transformative Critical role in the development of an academic / professional identity Positionality locating oneself in the research field Fractured subjectivities (Barnacle & Mewburn, 2010) Identity and agency
- 4. Based on Usher, R., Bryant, I., & Johnston, R. (1996). Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits. London: Routledge..
- 5. Identity is Confessional Practice Critical Practice (Modernist) (Postmodernist) Determined by dominant Socially constructed and structures culturally mediated Stable Flexible and in flux Singular and developmental Multiple and fragmentary Unified across multiple Diversified across multiple contexts contexts
- 6. Sociocultural Perspectives Identity as reified forms of perfomativity 足 social production, interaction and participation Prioritisation, roles and provisional selves Situated learning 足 increased capacity to participate in communities of practice
- 7. Figured Holland, D., Lachicotte, W. Jr., Skinner, D., & Cain, C. (1998). Identity and agency in World cultural worlds. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. a socially and culturally constructed realm of interpretation in which particular characters and actors are recognized, significance is assigned to certain acts, and particular outcomes are valued over others. Holland et al. (1998)
- 8. Research Design _________________________________________ Participants Six PhD students: Different stages of PhD Humanities, Soc. Sci. & interdisciplinary UK-based - traditional faculty & DTCs Data Collection 15-month period: Digital artefacts (blog posts, tweets etc.) Field notes Participant-reported accounts Three interviews with each participant Data Analysis Activity Theory: Descriptive analytical framework Open coding and thick description
- 12. Some Findings _____________________________________________ Identity Construction Cultural artefacts Genre knowledge and figured worlds Negotiating Practice Contexts Multiple doctoral research cultures Peripheral doctoral contexts Authenticity in Digital Contexts Privileged Insight Social, cultural and political dimensions
- 13. Some Findings _____________________________________________ Partiality in Digital Contexts Partially realised identities Integrated with other doctoral practices Dominant cultural practices Ambiguity in Digital Contexts Interactive vs. broadcast metaphors Imagined audiences
- 14. Digital Beetham, H., McGill, L., & Littlejohn, A. (2009). Thriving in the 21st century: Literacies Literacies for the digital age (LLiDA Project). The Caledonian Academy. JISC. (R)ecognising technology practice as diverse and constitutive of personal identity, including identity in different peer, subject and workplace communities, and individual styles of participation. Beetham et al. (2009:3)
- 15. Thanks Andy Coverdale Blog: http://www.phdblog.net Twitter: @andycoverdale