Dr. Bonnie Stewart is a seemingly \u2018punk-rock\u2019 educator, researcher, writer, and self-proclaimed \u2018social media fortune teller\u2019.<\/p>\n
Active in education, digital pedagogy, and a key figure at the intersection of social media and education formally since the early 2000\u2019s, and informally, well it appears that her career has been directing her to research who we are as learners and academic online since the 1990\u2019s. Bonnie has a website that highlights some of her accomplishments, as well as her professional and research interests, it can be found here<\/a>. She has an active voice on twitter (I mean, as she should \u2013 considering that much of her research is focused on how the twitter-verse impacts academia, and impacts marginalized or under-represented professionals in the field). An article that she wrote on the academic use of twitter can be found here<\/a>. \u00a0Her twitter link can be found here<\/a>. Of particular foreign<\/em> interest to me are her social media remarks on data collection in higher education and intended versus communicated uses for the data that is collected off students on the behalf of institutions.<\/p>\n Bonnie is working hard to research and influence change in the participatory web, or, what we may know as Web2.0. \u00a0I was first introduced to Bonnie and her work in LRNT521, with a recorded session from the Participatory Open. In this session she probed listeners to ask themselves if they are still involved in the web, or if they have reverted to being mere consumers. She then went on to encourage attendees and listeners to \u201ctake back the web\u201d, and help to build a web that we want to be a part of. She\u2019s even written about reluctance to be ourselves on the web, due to fear of shame. How can we, as educators and researchers influence growth or change when we are shuttered by the potential of shame for speaking outside of the norm. A link to Bonnie\u2019s blog post that addresses shame and social media can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Bonnie Stewart is a seemingly \u2018punk-rock\u2019 educator, researcher, writer, and self-proclaimed \u2018social media fortune teller\u2019. Active in education, digital pedagogy, and a key figure at the intersection of social media and education formally since the early 2000\u2019s, and informally, well it appears that her career has been directing her to research who we are … Continue reading “People in the Field – Dr. Bonnie Stewart”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0221\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}