IT Conversations hosts the complete audio archive of the Bloggercon III held November 2004. My fourth stop was the Academia Session, hosted by Jay Rosen.
quick notes:
* killer question: why should (or should not) academics blog?
* in part the academic publishing model was based on limited publishing resources (peer review, printed publication = expensive,..). Blogs provide a new way for this that exceeds digitizing journals as PDFs.
* dissemination of ideas that have been closed within the academy vs. academia as system based upon keeping information closed
* various use cases (professor student interaction; research collaboration; collaborate workspaces; self-promation;...)
* possible changes: broader audience; history of thoughts; interactivity; possibility for a less civilized discourse, noise; attacks on the reputation system; uncontrolled utterances (no prefilter); publication of unfinished texts;...
* blogging is symbiotic to other knowledge generating machines, not a replacement
* unprecedented confrontation with legitimacy (what are you guys doing all day?)
* loss of prestige which relies in part on the exclusiveness of the discourse, on incomprehensible and intimitating language.
* institutions are founded on the control (how to generate, disseminate, monetize) of the knowledge; blogging attacks the very DNA of this principle
Previous stops were the Newbie Session, the Overload Session, and the Journalism Session.
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quick notes:
* killer question: why should (or should not) academics blog?
* in part the academic publishing model was based on limited publishing resources (peer review, printed publication = expensive,..). Blogs provide a new way for this that exceeds digitizing journals as PDFs.
* dissemination of ideas that have been closed within the academy vs. academia as system based upon keeping information closed
* various use cases (professor student interaction; research collaboration; collaborate workspaces; self-promation;...)
* possible changes: broader audience; history of thoughts; interactivity; possibility for a less civilized discourse, noise; attacks on the reputation system; uncontrolled utterances (no prefilter); publication of unfinished texts;...
* blogging is symbiotic to other knowledge generating machines, not a replacement
* unprecedented confrontation with legitimacy (what are you guys doing all day?)
* loss of prestige which relies in part on the exclusiveness of the discourse, on incomprehensible and intimitating language.
* institutions are founded on the control (how to generate, disseminate, monetize) of the knowledge; blogging attacks the very DNA of this principle
Previous stops were the Newbie Session, the Overload Session, and the Journalism Session.
[blog] [theory] - trackback
posted by saurierduval | 3/02/2005 11:45:00 PM
