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Jeffrey Keefer

Educational Researcher / PhD Student (Lancaster University, UK) in E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning / Adjunct Instructor (NYU & Pace U) / Project Manager (Clinical Education) in New York City.

Interests in educational research influenced by interdisciplinarity, focused on digital identity, doctorateness and the postgraduate experience, threshold concepts and transformative learning in higher education, Internet research, networked learning, technology enhanced learning, distance education, adult and organizational learning, narrative inquiry, and actor-network theory.

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IR11 Pre-Conference: Academic Career Development Workshop

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I did something I have not done in some time at a conference; I took notes by hand during the wonderful “Academic Career Development Workshop for Research Students and Early Career Academics” pre-conference session. I did not want to hear tap tap tap, nor did I want to have the possibility of multitasking, so I [...]

The Internet Omnopticon: Mutual Surveillance in Social Media

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Jacob Linaa Jensen (who I spoke with last for the first time in the conference) began with a background of this topic.

Seems norms of privacy are not uniform, based 0n age and values and norms and such. Some people feel more confortable sharing everything, while others are more concerned about various things.

Jesper Taekke [...]

Power, Gender, and Collective Action

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The first of these papers that is being presented is entitled “When Technology Matters.” Their research question is “Why go public with the private?” Nice slides — black background with white text that just jumps out at us.

The first part is about a woman who blogged without people initially knowing her, but then people [...]

Tweeting it Out: Twitter and Sociality

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Quite fitting that there is a session on Twitter here at AoIR, even given the number of Tweets coming from #ir11.

Axel Maireder is speaking now about Twitter for transnational public discourses in Europe. Quite interesting how much research is now being done using Twitter, and how it is much more of just a microblogging [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2010-10-22

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Ahh, the Pro-Am stands for Professional-Amatuer! Yes, I am slow on the uptake. #ir11 # Every session I attended today has challenged my thinking in some way. I think this conference is money well spent. #ir11 # Anybody else think it is ironic that the porn research presentation is being presented in the dark? [...]