what they were doing when the digital street was its normal day with many different nodes of discussion. I think for me it's about the disconnect from what that public ecosystem looks like, its shifts, changes.This does not mean people have to come out on the street (b/c reasons)
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
and that's fine. But I often think if folks are here for specific communities, the communities still talk to each other in these major moments @ what's going on. It just feels like a major disconnect when ppl are doing things (while during major events) that imagine that
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
stuff is not happening at all. Like why would people want to put up signs promoting themselves in the midst of a major protest? They would be drowned out anyhow, but it just is discombobulating.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
It's sort of like having an advertisement sign posted or one you carry around just as literally terrible horrible is happening directly on the digital street. Everyone just would look at that as totally not reading the room but also a dystopic disconnect.
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Replying to @dorothyk98
So the question you're getting me to (& there may not be an answer) is what does ethical digital engagement look like in these moments? I have a hard time pivoting from horror to "look at my flowers!" So sometimes I feel like it's either all flowers or all horror.
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Replying to @triciamatthew
That is a hard one.I think maybe it's more about what does your communities on here need. If they need flowers and baked goods they should get that, if they need people to communally process the horror, they should get that, if they need aid, sympathy, just mutual being together
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
they should get that. But the world is in disaster & I think it just seems dissonant & surreal if that is not acknowledged. For ex. I think of the librarians/archivists on here, who will still post things related to the library but pivot it specifically to what's happening.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @triciamatthew
Like that makes sense, & its a public engagement from an academic institution that reads the public street & shifts accordingly. So I expect lots of digital library things about Crispus Attucks today along with MLK speech documents.
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Replying to @dorothyk98
I'm going to be bugging you more about this later (work calls). You have me thinking a/b the different identities we project here & how that is connected to our ethical obligations in a crisis. On Monday I knew I would be here less, but then this exchange started....<3
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Replying to @triciamatthew @dorothyk98
Thank you both for having this conversation on here. Really appreciating learning from your perspectives and thinking with them.
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In academic terms, I actually discuss this w/ grad. students in relation to their presence (or not, their choice) on social media. I wrote about stuff in 2014:https://hybridpedagogy.org/rules-twitter/
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I also have them look at Sydette Harry's piece:https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/attacking-the-stream …
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Bonnie Stewart's piece on Twitter and Academic Influence:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439884.2015.1015547 …
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