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Mark Fisher

Risk and Ethics in Public Scholarship | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

  • Doing academia in public view is both a powerful tool and a potentially powerful weapon.
  • There is no buffer in public writing.
  • And for many readers the allure of attacking the writer instead of the work is too seductive to deny. That can be a shock when you are accustomed to the civil discourse, no matter how thin or banal, that governs academic critique.
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  • While universities are quick to promote public scholarship they are loath to extend their responsibility to include refereeing the behavior of academics in the public sphere.
  • As my friend discovered, there is no ethic guiding public scholarship
  • The inequalities women and minorities face in traditional academic models only exacerbates the potential risks of contributing to public scholarship.
  • That is potentially devastating to those who would benefit most from the kind of visibility, credibility, and network building that public scholarship can provide.
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    Description of some of the issues we need to address under the idea of a 'safe space'. Contrast between academia and publicness that is relevant to the normative policies of PSD 
Kris Klotz

Comments Policy - New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science - 1 views

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      New APPS's comments policy. As an example, may be useful for our discussion of deliberation practices.
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    I generally like New APPS's policies, but we need to do better than them when it comes to respecting the anonymity of commentators. On one occasion, Catarina Novaes partially identified an anonymous commentator by tracing his/her IP address (it came from her office building). I can't find the link to that post at the moment, but it was very bad form on her part (and on the part of other NewAPPS authors, who defended her actions). If we allow users to post anonymously, we must not reveal their identities. If we think that they are hecklers, we can delete their comments and ban them, but not provide any identifying information.
Mark Fisher

CDD Deliberation Guidelines - 2 views

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    Read for Wed. 1/22
Mark Fisher

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

  • 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.
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    Skim for Wed. 1/22--pdf accessible from site.
Mark Fisher

An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation - 4 views

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    Maybe glance at Table of Contents for Wed. 1/22 to think about further readings.
Mark Fisher

Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University |... - 1 views

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    Link to PDF of Report from Imagining America
Mark Fisher

Public Scholarship | Simpson Center for the Humanities - 2 views

  • Its ethics and values hold central:
  • Relationship-building, reciprocity, and mutual benefit Participation, transparency, and reflection Innovation, integration, and dialogue Cultural diversity and social equality In coming to these forms of “applied” scholarship, humanities scholars have emphasized the way that culture in its many forms mediates interactions, development, and knowledge.
  • Publicly-engaged scholarship yields diverse artifacts, informing knowledge in multiple domains Policy and planning recommendations Museum exhibitions and public performances New curricula for courses or workshops Books and journal articles As consequence, public scholarship also yields new connections among disciplines, communities, and sectors. 
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  • Public scholarship refers to diverse modes of creating and circulating knowledge for and with publics and communities. It often involves mutually-beneficial partnerships between higher education and organizations in the public and private sectors.
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    This provides a nice overview of public scholarship; Guiding Principles Diverse Artifacts (Review Objects
Mark Fisher

Public Scholarship | Center for Leadership & Engagement - 2 views

  • By Public Scholarship we mean bringing the best thinking and research to bear on the most critical issues facing society today.  Public Scholarship also entails a commitment to publishing letters, op-eds, and articles in newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs, and other forms of social media to raise awareness about these issues, to stimulate broad discussion, and to explore the role timely scholarship can play in addressing our most challenging problems. Public scholars strive to communicate simply and clearly to a wide audience, and therefore adopt a journalistic style in which sentences are crisp, paragraphs are brief, and jargon is employed sparingly. While public scholars embrace theory and sophisticated research approaches, they particularly seek to translate theory into practice and to use research findings to shed compelling light on the causes and the effects of pressing social issues. Public scholars also recognize that social issues which affect the broadest range of people matter most. Consequently, issues of poverty, hunger, access to education and healthcare, concerns about the rights of immigrants and other marginalized groups, as well as efforts to ensure public safety and promote social well-being are social priorities that deserve unusually extensive coverage. Public Scholarship is a means by which teachers and scholars can promote the public good, and we encourage faculty, staff, and students to find engaging and innovative ways to communicate with a broader public. We, in the Center for Leadership and Engagement, are pleased to support these efforts and to provide outlets on our website for sharing a variety of perspectives.
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    Characterization of public scholarship
Mark Fisher

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

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    Online Deliberation Design: Choices, Criteria, and Evidence
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    I found the diagram (five design categories) on page 3 helpful.
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    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.
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    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.
Kris Klotz

Public Sphere Project - 1 views

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    Many projects and resources devoted "to help create and support equitable and effective public spheres all over the world."
Mark Fisher

Re-constructing digital democracy: An outline of four 'positions' - 11 views

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    Read for Wed. 1/22--pdf accessible from site.
Mark Fisher

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

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