In this open, online presentation, Dr. George Veletsianos, of Royal Roads University and Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology, draws on a number of studies conducted to examine academics' and educators' participation in networked spaces. These studies point to three significant findings: (a) increasingly open practices that question the traditions of academia, (b) personal-professional tensions in academic work, and (c) a framework of identity that contrasts sharply with our existing understanding of online identity.