Essay by Melissa Hagemann, a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship by Peter Suber. Who controls access to educational materials in the age of the internet? Today many students are priced out of an education, not because of the cost of tuition, but because of the price of textbooks. Lessons from the open […]
Essay by John Willinsky, a response to The Opening of Science and Scholarship, by Peter Suber Some forty years ago, Marshall McLuhan spoke in his now predictably prescient manner of an “age of instant information,” while others at the time held high-speed computing responsible for an “information revolution.” And while it is tempting to say […]
essay by Peter Suber, responses by John Willinsky, Melissa Hagemann and Melanie Dulong de Rosnay. Who controls access to peer-reviewed research in the age of the internet? How are the relevant norms and interests evolving? Some key variables are unchanged from the age of print. Scholarly journals usually don’t pay their authors, referees, or editors. […]
Essay by Daisy Pignetti, a response to Principles of New Media Literacy, by Dan Gillmor Continue the conversation with Evgeny Morozov In 2006 I wrote a piece about the burgeoning New Orleans blogosphere for the launch of Placeblogger.com. The crux of that essay, and of the site itself, was to call attention to the value […]
Essay by Lewis Hyde, with a response by Daithi Mac Sithigh In 1739 the Methodist minister George Whitefield arrived in Philadelphia to preach evangelical Protestantism. At first the local clergy shared their pulpits with the visitor, but soon they turned against him and forced him to deliver his message in the streets and fields. Benjamin […]
essay by Kenneth Neil Cukier, a response to “ICANN’s Constitutional Moment” by Susan Crawford The debate over Internet governance and the foundation of ICANN represented the Internet’s first “civil war” — but all sides lost. The only thing bonding the fractious “Internet community” together in the talks that led to ICANN a decade ago this […]
essay by Susan Crawford, with a response by Kenn Cukier The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, coordinates name and number identifiers for the Internet. In a nutshell, ICANN coordinates actors who make sure that there is only one .com in the list of top level domains (like .com, .net, .org, and […]
essay by Dan Gillmor with responses by Daisy Pignetti and Evgeny Morozov. The democratization of media is no longer in doubt. Digital media tools, increasingly cheap and ubiquitous, have spawned a massive amount of media creation at all levels, most notably from the edges of networks. These networks have provided vast access to what people […]
essay by Ellen Miller I have always had a particular affinity for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who entered Harvard Law School at the tender age of 18, and then graduated in 1877 at the top of his class and with the highest marks of any student in the law school’s history . His nearly […]
essay by Doc Searls We’re always talking about something else. Regardless of the subject at hand, we have other subjects in mind that help us say what we mean. According to cognitive science, all of our thought and speech is metaphorical. That is, we understand everything in terms of something else. For example, time is […]
