Public Philosophy

Skim for Wed. 1/22

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

Brief post on the ambiguity of the term "open access"

A critical view of open access publishing

Center at U. in Millersville, PA--Lancaster Contact Mary Glazier (Director) to talk about PPJ

Defining Public Scholarship

Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford--

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.

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

"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."

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