http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:11:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/04/what-shall-fill-the-void-of-the-author/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/04/what-shall-fill-the-void-of-the-author/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:28:18 +0000 Peter Brantley http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/04/what-shall-fill-the-void-of-the-author/ Paul Duguid of the UC Berkeley I-School. Prof. Duguid teaches on the topic of information quality, and recently has begun research on the history and development of trademarks and branding. As with his previous work, his talk raised issues that question the embrace of the current popular culture of open web based systems, and his commentaries are well worth sharing.]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/04/what-shall-fill-the-void-of-the-author/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/21/call-for-papers-the-political-economy-of-academic-journal-publishing/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/21/call-for-papers-the-political-economy-of-academic-journal-publishing/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:03:40 +0000 Nicolas Guilhot http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/21/call-for-papers-the-political-economy-of-academic-journal-publishing/ An interesting call for papers & proposals for a special issue of Ephemera: theory & politics in organization, to be edited by Craig Prichard & Steffen Böhm: "Publish or perish," that famous diktat, is without doubt the central, pervasive and unassailable logic governing most academic work in the current period. The central figure, the one around which this decree currently revolves, is, of course, the academic journal article. While the book and perhaps the lecture remain important in some locations, the journal article has become the core currency and the very measure by which academic jobs, careers, reputations and identities are made and traded.]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/21/call-for-papers-the-political-economy-of-academic-journal-publishing/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/13/access-and-taxes/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/13/access-and-taxes/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:38:30 +0000 John Willinsky http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/13/access-and-taxes/ As Harvard University is considering the adoption of an open-access policy for its faculty's publications, John Willinsky discusses the stakes associated with such choices and their potential impact on the public use of knowledge. It may be because I have spent my entire educational life in public schools, public libraries, and public universities, prior that is to joining Stanford this year, that I am drawn to recent news stories on the endowments that help to finance this country’s leading private universities. I have become all too aware that I’ve joined an institution...]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/13/access-and-taxes/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/04/reading-googles-monetized-page/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/04/reading-googles-monetized-page/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:30:55 +0000 Peter Dimock http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/04/reading-googles-monetized-page/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/04/reading-googles-monetized-page/feed/