Web 2.0 & Academic Agency
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What do you believe is the value, if any, of incorporating Web 2.0 tools within your professional/scholarly life? 
It's amazing we could even *be* scholars before all these tools.
I just don't use these technologies in my scholarship.  These don't lead to tenure.
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The ability to share specific content and research with others engaged in similar pursuits, regardless of their geographic location.

It allows me to collaborate and contact those not in my geographic region -- as well as to work with those who are in my region but I may not see regularly.

I have collaborated with several colleagues in other countries and states on projects.  I would never have been able to do this without internet based tools.

Being able to connect with a few specific people at my institution. 
Connections across time and space, barriers that would otherwise preclude most professional contacts.

Helps me to stay current with developing interests and research directions of those in the field; that knowledge, in turn, influences my ideas
I love being able to see what other scholars/teachers are doing in real time.  I learn a lot from the small insights into daily routines that I get via Twitter or Facebook.
More/faster/easier access to information and people

Velocity and circulation, as well as branding and visibility.

Don't see how you can keep up with the information without it...
It expands the range of my audience and gives me a lot of flexibility in how I organize and present my scholarship.
It's a more efficient way to exchange ideas about the area I'm researching/teaching.
Tracking and organizing my own and others' work; connecting to sources I wouldn't have found otherwise
I love the way that people are increasingly sharing research using Web 2.0 tools.  I would like to see even more of this.  To me, this opens up the field to everyone in it and others who are interested; such sharing also allows for better circulation and dissemination of ideas.
...how does one communicate, research, and work to publish now without the social networking, collaboration, and research resources provided by 2.0 apps?
Web 2.0 tools allow me to continue to build networks with other scholars in my field as well as find scholars in other disciplines who have similar research interests. 
...you can make personal connections with people in the field that you might not at conferences or in your everyday job. You are more likely to connect with others that have the same interests as you.
I like to share sources and information with colleagues. However, I hesitate to be too forthcoming about my own research, since the 'publish or perish' rule of academic survival can cause me to withhold my own results until after publication.

Of course collaboration would be useful, but except for reading academic blogs and using zotero, I just don't use these technologies in my scholarship.  These don't lead to tenure.

I think it is valuable, because it *is* the future. There are many missed opportunities when we let our fear of technology get the better of us. For me, my reluctance is a combination of insecurity and a lack of training. I am also highly skeptical of the quality of some of the information (e.g. blogs).

"For the social apps, I'd rather just have fun rather than worry about what colleagues might think I'm saying.  
Unfortunately the nature of the beast is that they can also be unwieldy and unreliable (in more ways than one)."

still, repsonses were largely positive
analysis revealed the following trends:
http://www.metaacademia.com
survey analysis
Responses were highly reflective of literature reviewed on the subject (see bibliography), which often cited collaboration and collection as "acceptable" digital practice; key areas of apprehension included publication, information expertise and quality control, professional advancement, and intellectual property--especially in humanties disciplines.
Translation?  How might Web 2.0 increase or enhance your agency as a scholar, a researcher, an academic, a colleague, an administrator, a ___??
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http://www.zotero.org/groups/metaacademia/items/collection/856359
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