OPEN RESEARCH & ENGAGEMENT

BONNIE STEWART @bonstewart #openupei

October 2016

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WHAT IF YOU COULD ENGAGE WITH LEADERS IN YOUR FIELD

EVERY DAY?

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OPEN RESEARCH GOES BEYOND DISSEMINATION

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OPEN RESEARCH IS BUILT ON OPEN ENGAGEMENT

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•  Generates interest / input into premises / outputs

•  Is valued / understood by publics it addresses

OPEN AS PRACTICE OF SHARING

(blog posts, status updates, half-baked ideas, data, vulnerabilities, successes…)

CONTRIBUTION + CONNECTION

“Sometimes…I’ll choose someone with 20

followers, because I come across something

they’ve managed to say in 140 characters, and I

think “oh, look at you, crafting on a

grain of rice.” - @KateMfD

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= OPEN NETWORKED

PARTICIPATION

MY STORY

SEPTEMBER 2010: •  10 years out of grad

school

•  10 years as staff & sessional faculty

•  4.5 years as blogger / writer / social media observer…

Interested in the intersection of the two worlds

MY RESEARCH APPROACH

•  Draft & share premises openly

•  Check resonance against lived experiences of community under study

•  Share processes, challenges, & outputs in the open

PROCESSES

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CHALLENGES

OUTPUTS

BENEFITS: cross-disciplinary breadth of input + recognition for developing profile

Visibility in the prestige economy of open networks intersects with the prestige economy of traditional scholarship.

OPEN ENGAGEMENT + OPEN RESEARCH =

SCHOLARSHIP OF ABUNDANCE

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