Public Philosophy

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

Science journal that crowdsources reviews

Commenting policies, of PLOS One

Also has open peer discussion forum

a blog post discussing the experiences of a open peer review journal, with links to articles published alongside their review history.

A platform for peer review with several gradations of openness

Post on whistleblowing as an act of civil disobedience. Might be of interest to discussions of public deliberation

"The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) is a forum for research and discussion about contemporary publishing practices, and the impact of those practices upon users."

interesting post on the role of DH for philosophy (early mention of PPJ)

Online Deliberation Design: Choices, Criteria, and Evidence

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.

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.

Blog post from last February mentioning the PPJ, from one of the first to express interest in the PPJ on the google form

This is a google doc of blogs and other sites curated through PressForward by DH Now.

I also posted this in our Behind the Scenes community page. I'm going to begin working through it manually to find sites that are relevant for us.

Great find! I'll start working through it as well. I'll work from the bottom up.

Brief article in Nature on open peer review process of two science journals

Very interesting hypothesis: "These numbers support the idea that public peer review and interactive discussion deter authors from submitting low-quality manuscripts, and thus relieve editors and reviewers from spending too much time on deficient submissions."

I noticed Chris tweeted that comment earlier. It's a good complement to the more common finding of confirmation bias.

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

Skim for Wed. 1/22