ABSTRACT

As social media platforms become increasingly entangled in how academia gets performed, there is growing pressure on individuals to cultivate a digital presence or risk becoming invisible. While some adopt new and emerging online communicative tools with gusto and élan, there are others who resent and resist their creeping territorialisation of workspaces. This paper uses a feminist New Materialist onto-epistemology to offer an alternative understanding of the material, discursive, and affective forces that enfold to nurture and/or neuter the uptake of scholarly blogging practices in academia. Unlike conventional humanist ontologies, a New Materialist approach views agency as distributed across all matter – not just the human form. This approach allows for the social, historical, affective, technological, and spatial forces, fluxes, and flows shaping and reshaping diverging scholarly blogging practices and performances to be plumbed. The insights generated have implications for how academic developers might encourage the uptake of scholarly blogging within and across their institutions.

摘要

随着社交媒体平台越来越纠缠于学术界的表现方式，个人培养数字化存在的压力越来越大，否则就面临着变得无形的风险。尽管有些人采用gusto和élan采用了新兴的在线交流工具，但另一些人则反感并抵制其对工作区的爬行地域化。本文采用了女权主义的新唯物主义本体论提供对物质，话语和情感力量的另一种理解，这些力量滋养和/或绝育了学术界对学术博客实践的接受。与传统的人本主义本体论不同，新唯物主义的方法将代理视为分布在所有物质上，而不仅仅是人的形式。这种方法可以使社会，历史，情感，技术和空间的力量，通量，流程的塑造和重塑与学术博客实践和表演的差异重塑。所产生的见解对学术开发人员如何鼓励其机构内部和机构之间的学术博客的采用具有影响。