How will social media transform #highered?

@mark_carrigan @Soc_Imagination Homogenize, sanitize, try to monetize & brand evthing in sight, driving free expression further underground.

— 🌴tp🌒🦉 (@3DogCouch) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan The ability to self-publish on #socialmedia reaches people directly, displaces the gatekeeping of journals and peer review.

— James Toscano (@JamesToscano) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan ..impact. A fake "democratisation," recognising scholarship more in terms of popularity than creativity or interestingness.

— Conor Heaney (@conorhean) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan Likely direction is to exert more pressure on academics to make "impact" through social media. More followers=more (1/2)

— Conor Heaney (@conorhean) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan Help 2 rid us of the incestualized, privatization of knowledge. No more gate keepers, when the info. is a tweet or post away.

— Matthew Devine (@matty_rian) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan univ depts. that engage in #socialmedia also increase their visibility in marketing/outreach for recruitment/fund raising

— DJ Pintór (@dantomjohn) April 17, 2016

@mark_carrigan Mobile VR walled-garden interactive MOOC platforms populated by AI teaching chatbots that have occasional meltdowns

— sanjay sharma | @sanjay_digital (@sanjay_digital) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan been thinking about this lately. I reckon 1) methods – feels unrealistic for me (esp. as 25yr old) to do ethnography 1/2

— Ash Watson (@awtsn) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan with a paper notebook/'be' an ethnographer offline and 2) teaching! Blended learning enviros (see us now in #1007HUM) 2/2

— Ash Watson (@awtsn) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan @Soc_Imagination 1/2 an ability to disseminate knowledge to a wider audience, making it a 'fairer' way to share

— Rashida (@ribsylu83) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan @Soc_Imagination 2/2 knowledge with the communities we research with, in and from.

— Rashida (@ribsylu83) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan tensioning how academics position themselves through language – social media begets immediacy & closeness, unlike 'expertise'

— Marcos González Hernando (@MarcosGHernando) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan @BeingHumanFest I'm hoping it will foster life long learning, curiosity & contact with diverse research groups & projects

— Eccentric Archive (@Moodyarchive) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan because I'm hoping that one day someone will be able to explain neoliberalism to me in 140 characters

— Ronni Littlewood 👩🏻‍🦰 🇪🇺 (@ronni_rose) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan Learnig dozens of opinions helps us to 1. get to know, 2. understand, 3. accept eachother & each other's views.

— Miklós Gyorgyovich (@Kozonithy) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan Worst case: it becomes a new thing 4 the audit regime. Best: it helps us 2 create new publics & new modes of scholarship

— Sean Phelan (@seanphelan8) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan #socialmedia is a great equalizer between established and new academics/grad students

— DJ Pintór (@dantomjohn) April 17, 2016

@mark_carrigan before we get to how need to tackle the misunderstandings and prejudice linked to use of SoMe for ed both students and staff

— Clare Fenwick (@csf0961) April 16, 2016

@mark_carrigan More conversations with a wider range of ppl (academics and others) => better research all around

— Melanie Simms (@SimmsMelanie) April 16, 2016