#Twittergate: What are the ethics of live-tweeting at conferences?
Tweetchat on livetweeting at conferences led by @tressiemcphd. Issues covered--the nature of academia, privacy concerns, intellectual property theft. Also significant: Tressie's follow up blog post http://tressiemc.com/2012/09/30/an-idea-is-a-dangerous-thing-to-quarantine-twittergate/
@jmjohnsophd just curious as to what folks perceive to be the boundaries of appropriateness, respect, etc- @jmjohnsophd tweeting during one's own panel? tweeting about one's own panel? tweeting to/about other panelists?
@wardellfranklin I wonder if conversations differ from panels differ from large lectures, etc. as far as ethics of sharing.
@wardellfranklin @jmjohnsophd I think its relative to the device. I'm on my phone & I think it looks bad. Looks like in not listening- @wardellfranklin Tend to view panels as part of the public domain. As in, anyone can walk into a panel and receive the information exchanged
- @wardellfranklin but I'm not sure if we've (academia) had the conversation beyond social media's ability to draw publicity, share 411
- @wardellfranklin It is an interesting question of ethics and etiquette as well. Ex: when are conference conversations too private to tweet?
- @ColeJocelyn @wardellfranklin Ah. The attention question. Another side of the ethics/etiquette of live tweeting.
- @ColeJocelyn @jmjohnsophd do panel participants owe it to their colleagues to be fully "present"?
- @wardellfranklin @ColeJocelyn That assumes that live tweeting is automatically distracting. Not always the case; this may b generational.
- @jmjohnsophd @ColeJocelyn @divafeminist public spaces, yes. but also (often) sites for sharing ideas in formation & work in progress.
- @ColeJocelyn @jmjohnsophd i don't think it's supported empirically. i definitely wouldn't buy it from a student in my class trying sell it.
- @wardellfranklin @ColeJocelyn I will have to explain in another venue (with +140 charas :) )
@wardellfranklin I would agree it's bad form for panelists to tweet during others' presentations. audience tweeting a keynote or- @wardellfranklin 2/2 a panel which is clearly non-workshoppy and not likely to put panelists in uncomfortable position also seems ok to me
@wardellfranklin @ColeJocelyn @jmjohnsophd I'v read abt a way 2 auto-trigger tweets frm powerpoint/keynote so spkr can still b fully present
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- Aiden HarrisonEvery conference and presentation I've ever attended has been for the purpose of spreading information to a vast range of people, all at once. Now, unless there...more2012-10-20T09:07:16.834Z
- Aiden HarrisonEvery conference and presentation I've ever attended has been for the purpose of spreading information to a vast range of people, all at once. Now, unless there...Every conference and presentation I've ever attended has been for the purpose of spreading information to a vast range of people, all at once. Now, unless there's apparently some kind of conference that has a different purpose that I'm obviously oblivious to (and what exactly would this purpose be?) then tweeting spoken content should be fine. It is re-communicating information that we as an individual have retained from hearing another person speak; which is the exact purpose of the conferences (unless, like I said, there is another different kind?) Therefore, tweeting what we've heard is not different to telling a friend, colleague or a stranger in the street about it, it's just doing so much faster and more efficiently. (Again, the purpose of holding massive groups of people together, to listen to one person at a time; i.e. Conference)more2012-10-20T09:07:16.834Z
