A Connected Legacy Building a Canada 150 Community

2017 Starts Now

Bonnie Stewart University of Prince Edward Island

May 2013

What stories will we tell ourselves for Canada 150?

“The truth about stories is that’s all we are” - Thomas King  

 

Networks = a way to share & amplify stories

Networked Identities: many-faceted, connected,

participatory

1967 was an Institutional Age

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2017 will be a Networked Age

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Online networks enable different forms of identity,

legitimacy, and belonging

than institutions do

Newly emerging species: open, public, hybrid

Own your story

Own your perspective

Own your purpose. Make it powerful.

Own your silliness

Own your humanity. Let us see it. Help us see our own.

A new sense of public commons

Institutions are a vital part of the Networked Age

CONNECT.  

   Thank you. @bonstewart