August 31, 2021
Gabe Stein, in a smart critique of Joseph Berstein's Harper's takedown of 'Big Disinfo' Thus, explaining away attempts to understand the information ecosystem as merely the theater the Establishment needs “to build a political world that still makes sense,” as...
August 30, 2021
Gareth Leng and Rhodri Igor Leng, in an excerpt from their 2020 book The Matter of Facts: Pieter Kroonenberg, a Dutch statistician, discovered a nonexistent paper that had been cited more than 400 times. The phantom paper was cited as: Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J....
August 29, 2021
Arthur Levine—a reliable source for higher-ed disaster-porn—in a Chronicle piece (co-authored with Scott Van Pelt): Anticipating such upheaval, some institutions are already evolving. […] To look forward rather than backward is no easy feat. Colleges must confront...
August 23, 2021
From my just-published Commonplace piece on the mission-aligned funding exchange: Any alternative to the prevailing scholarly communication system must be built atop a different funding model, one that excludes neither readers nor authors. In broad strokes, that model...
August 19, 2021
Erin Rose Glass, in a smart 2019 post I only just discovered: Open access has a surveillance problem. No, I don’t mean to suggest that open access is necessarily surveillant, or that it is aiding and abetting the digital surveillance industrial complex—although it...
