Academic Free Speech and Digital Voices

Summary

Dissident science experts confront scientific suppression in Higher Education, which can include the novel threat of online academic bullying (OAB). We are developing a definitive framework for OAB and exploring related concerns, such as academic cybermobs. Some IR experts are highly agentive in using Twitter and other digital platforms for networking and raising awareness for the Insulin Resistance Model of Chronic Ill Health (IRMCIH) paradigm. We explore the diverse strategies that experts follow in successfully exercising responsible free speech, especially those that support the sharing and development of IRMCIH research.

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Ongoing Research Studies

Digital Voices (DV)

Digital voices (DV)

Institution: Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
Supervisors: Professor Izak van Zyl
Researchers: Dr Travis Noakes, Dr Pat Harpur, Dr Corrie Uys
Organisation: The Noakes Foundation
Type of support from TNF: Infrastructural funder- payments and funding proposals
Collaborators: Jana Retief, Shannon Mace, Cheryl Mitchell, Younglings Africa’s Social Media Internet Lab for Research (SMILR)

Primary Research Outputs

Twitter goals with a scientific article – small data research for new vistas on users’ disparate interactions and motivations (in review)

Noakes, T. 2021, The value (or otherwise) of social media to the medical professional : some personal reflections. Current Allergy and Clinical Immunology, volume 34, issue 1, pages 23-29, March, 2021.

Secondary Research Outputs

Noakes, T. (2021, 4-6 March). From informal academic debate to cyber harassment – navigating the minefield as a responsible contributor [Conference presentation]. World Nutrition Summit, Cape Town, South Africa. https://courses.nutrition-network.org/p/wns-bundle

Other Outputs

Exemplary Digital Voices code report for Twitter reports and analysis.

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