You Are Where?

Last November I gave a seminar about building an online presence as an academic. I didn’t post the talk here right away, because there was a chance of getting it into print at the time; but that didn’t end up happening, and now I’d want to re-work the whole thing before trying again. It still has value in its original form, though, and given the rapidly changing nature of the field it loses that value the longer it sits neglected, so today I’m putting it online.

You Are Where? Building a Research Presence in Cyberspace examines the challenges and strategies facing academics when building an online presence and making it part of their research activity: what it means to have a “presence in cyberspace” and an online identity; interacting with peers online, and the presentation and ownership of ideas in the online environment; and the practical side of establishing an online presence. Its aim is to encourage academics to become more visible and active online, not simply remain a name that occurs on a few departmental pages; and to explore what that means for researchers.

The ironies of the paper being invisible while it was offline aren’t lost on me. Most of my metablogging has been invisible this year, in the form of conference and grant pitches, so it’s about time I brought some of it back into the light. (Yes, the paper talks about weblogs, but only in the second half. There’s other stuff there too.)

23 July 2004

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