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Mark Fisher

The "Nasty Effect:" Online Incivility and Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies - A... - 2 views

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PSD Wed. 1_22

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  • The purpose of this study is to examine how uncivil online interpersonal discussion may contribute to polarization of perceptions about an issue.
  • Uncivil discourse is a growing concern in American rhetoric, and this trend has expanded beyond traditional media to online sources, such as audience comments. Using an experiment given to a sample representative of the U.S. population, we examine the effects online incivility on perceptions toward a particular issue—namely, an emerging technology, nanotechnology. We found that exposure to uncivil blog comments can polarize risk perceptions of nanotechnology along the lines of religiosity and issue support.
  • Mark Fisher on 21 Jan 14
     
    Skim for Wed. 1/22--pdf accessible from site.
Mark Fisher

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1302/1302.5177.pdf - 5 views

arxiv.org/...1302.5177.pdf

PSD public scholarship

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  • Mark Fisher on 28 Jan 14
     
    Online Deliberation Design: Choices, Criteria, and Evidence
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  • Kris Klotz on 29 Jan 14
     
    I found the diagram (five design categories) on page 3 helpful.
  • Mark Fisher on 29 Jan 14
     
    Here is something to consider: Other things being equal, however, the available research supports the idea that people both prefer and are more productive when they are speaking rather than writing, probably because speech is less cognitively demanding than writing,70 but that people who are high in literacy prefer and absorb more information per unit time when they are reading text rather than listening to speech.71 This suggests a role for the developing technology of automatic speech recognition (ASR). If software can efficiently translate spoken words into text, then the users of an online system may be able to interact more optimally.
  • Mark Fisher on 29 Jan 14
     
    And: One formulation of media richness theory is the following: When equivocality is high, individuals are likely to have different interpretations of problems and may disagree as to what information is needed to shape a solution. These conditions require that individuals must first create a shared sense of the situation and then, through negotiation and feedback, formulate a common response. Daft and his colleagues argue that this requires a rich communication medium, one that, in our terminology, provides interactivity and expressiveness. A medium that provides interactivity permits communication partners to exchange information rapidly, adjusting their messages in response to signals of understanding or misunderstanding, questions, or interruptions [citation omitted]. A medium that permits expressiveness allows individuals to convey not only the content of their ideas but also intensity and subtleties of meaning through intonation, facial expression, or gestures. According to the contingency hypothesis, when task equivocality is high, media richness is essential to effective communication. 74 Media richness theorists distinguish between "rich" and "lean" media, but this is usefully refined into the interactivity and expressiveness dimensions defined above.
André de Avillez

Civility, respect, and the project of sharing a world. | Adventures in Ethics and Science - 1 views

scientopia.org/...the-project-of-sharing-a-world

policies

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  • André de Avillez on 17 Feb 14
     
    a reflection on online civility, with regard to a recent outing of an anonymous female blogger by an editor of the journal Nature
André de Avillez

The Work of Public Work | Jacobin - 2 views

www.jacobinmag.com/...the-work-of-public-work

DigitalScholarlyCommunication public PublicPhilosophy

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  • At the same time, I want to hold Robin accountable to his desire for a “materialist analysis of the relationship between politics, economics, and culture.”
  • I think he wrongly characterizes the conditions under which many of these young academics are writing
  • The risk of being a public intellectual, he posits, comes from the fact that these scholars are taking time away from their academic writing
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  • The workload of academics has increased exponentially in recent years, as has been well-documented
  • I have found that writing for popular audiences is not solely an internal passion, but has actually become an external demand of young scholars, another metric by which their job application or tenure-file is evaluated.
  • The problem is that Robin goes on to romanticize the lives of young scholar-writers, saying that their work arises from intrinsic desires, whose realization is made possible by new technology:
  • The mantra of “publishing early and often” has intensified, especially in a tight job market. As tenured horizons grow grimmer, new scholars must do anything they can to stand out above a crowd of over-achievers. Publish early, publish often — and now, publish online.
  • The swelling workloads of academics are indicative of the micropolitics of neoliberalism
  • Young scholars are compelled to transform themselves into academic entrepreneurs, creating a brand that they promote through their blogs, tweets, and online profiles.
  • Consider the website Academia.edu
  • But the site also exemplifies the quantification of the productive self, with each profile displaying the number of views, article downloads, and followers for each academic.
  • It’s no wonder that I’ve also seen a growing number of colleagues (myself included) add a “Public Scholarship” section to their CVs
  • The labor of public intellectualism is more than a political project, or even a charitable effort of self-expression — it’s another manifestation of exploitation
  • As a result, young academics trying to keep up with new media are writing, reading blogs and engaging in Twitter wars during lunch breaks, between teaching commitments, and well into the night.
  • To meet the demands of academic capitalism, there’s now even less of a chance of ever clocking out.
  • Yes, let us praise the young writers whose voices are being seen and heard across the blogosphere, and luxuriate in the possibilities of transcending the borders of the Ivory Tower. But let us not forget that writing, even on the Internet, and even for the “public good,” is still work. And whenever we’re encouraged to do more work, we should be a bit wary.
  • André de Avillez on 25 Feb 14
     
    A response to Corey Robin's response to Kristof's article, raising troubling concerns regarding the commodification of public scholarship.  Seems worth amplifying, in conjunction with the critiques of Kristof's piece or on its own.
Mark Fisher

"Democracy Online: Civility, Politeness, and the Democratic Potential of Online Politic... - 5 views

www.ict-21.ch/...DemocracyOnline.pdf

PSD Wed. 1_22

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  • Mark Fisher on 21 Jan 14
     
    Skim for Wed. 1/22
André de Avillez

Who's Afraid of Peer Review? - 2 views

www.sciencemag.org/...60.full

risks Peer Review open access journals

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  • Acceptance was the norm, not the exception
  • accepted by journals hosted by industry titans Sage and Elsevier
  • by journals published by prestigious academic institutions such as Kobe University in Japan.
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  • by scholarly society journal
  • ven accepted by journals for which the paper's topic was utterly inappropriate,
  • Some open-access journals that have been criticized for poor quality control provided the most rigorous peer review of all.
  • Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)
  • The Who's Who of credible open-access journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • There is another list—one that journals fear. It is curated by Jeffrey Beall, a library scientist at the University of Colorado, Denver. His list is a single page on the Internet that names and shames what he calls "predatory" publishers
  • one in five of Beall's "predatory" publishers had managed to get at least one of their journals into the DOAJ
  • Some say that the open-access model itself is not to blame for the poor quality control revealed by Science's investigation.
  • But open access has multiplied that underclass of journals, and the number of papers they publish. "Everyone agrees that open-access is a good thing," Roos says. "The question is how to achieve it."
  • The most basic obligation of a scientific journal is to perform peer review
Kris Klotz

BioMed Central | The BMC-series journals - 1 views

www.biomedcentral.com/...bmcseries

Peer Review policies

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      Kris Klotz on 16 Jan 14
       
      BioMed Central publishes several open peer reviewed journals. I've highlighted a relevant portion of its peer review policy.
  • Open peer review means that, firstly, the reviewers' names are included on the peer review reports, and secondly that, if the manuscript is published, the reports are made available online along with the final version of the manuscript. The published article will provide a link to its 'pre-publication history', which lists all the versions of the manuscript, all the signed reviews, and all responses to the reviewers since the submission of the manuscript until its publication.
Mark Fisher

An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation - 4 views

odbook.stanford.edu/...Chapter_25._Davies_et_al.pdf

PSD Wed. 1_22

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  • Mark Fisher on 21 Jan 14
     
    Maybe glance at Table of Contents for Wed. 1/22 to think about further readings.
André de Avillez

OWS interviews Partido X - 0 views

occupywallst.org

public activism collaboration

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  • the program of the Partido X is developed through crowd-sourced drafting of public policy proposals, where we invite groups or experts that are already working on a given issue and are socially recognized for it to submit the first draft of a policy proposal and later we post it online for the network to amend.
  • More than 2,000 people have participated so far in the amend processes, and as the platform grows so do their numbers: around 25,000 are registered in their newsletter, which is the first step to collaborate in the network.
  • André de Avillez on 19 Feb 14
     
    OWS website. if we're looking for activists and activism, we'll probably find them here...
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