Identity, Scholarship and Metrics

Martin Weller

How is academic identity changing?

Tag 16 my secret identity by chanchan222 http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanchan222/3219255790/

How is identity changing?

It’s distributed

Reflections by stephen dooley http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/2577006675/

Intersection with personal

Intersection with personal

Varied

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Varied

Overlapping community norms

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Layers of community norms

Confused!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29707865@N05/2780508266/

Confusing!

Metrics

Metrics!

What is impact?

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What does impact mean?

What do online metrics mean?What doMetrics mean?

Is complementary sufficient?

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Is complementary sufficent?

Alternative representations

Metrics are useful

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Metrics are useful

Metrics are dangerous

Metrics are dangerous

Pressures will make metrics inevitable

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Pressures will make it inevitable