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Academia and the dangers of Facebook |
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
After three startling discussions with academics in the past week it is time to set the record straight about facebook and academic work. The level of naivity in the academic community about the business models behind "free" social networking tools represents a very real danger to the integrity of the publishing process. Blogscholar recommends never using facebook for any academic work (or any other activity for that matter) unless you are completely satisfied that there is no need for any of the data or discussions to be private AND you are satisfied to give up any claim to ownership over any of the intellectual property (words, images, documents, etc) you post on your facebook site or group. There is nothing private about anything you say or do on facebook and everything you post becomes the property of facebook to do with as they please.
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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
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The tide is slowly turning in the mainstream media vs blogging debate. The trend is not unlike that which other industry sectors like music and journalism have experienced in the recent past. As blogging has shifted from the realm of quirky early adopters to a mainstream social networking force, the powers that be have also had to adapt their perspectives on the phenomena. This often results in a full circle shift from overt disapproval (it has no credibility, it is all about copyright infringement, it will pass, etc) to warm embrace. The story of a blog post about a scientific paper on how alcohol augments the antioxidant properties of fruit is a great illustration of this trend.
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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As Dan Silkstone writes about the "most extraordinary rise" of 70 million blogs in the blogosphere, in the minute it takes you to read this post 80 new blogs are created. The function of blogs is changing as well as institutionalised culture slowly adapts to the online publishing revolution. At MIT the admissions office is paying students to blog on their site as a powerful recruitment tool. And the rumblings persist that KC Johnson deserves a pulitzer for his legal blogging on a Duke University sexual assault scandal. So with publications like the "Science Blogging Anthology" coming out, is it time to take blogs seriously on the academic publsihing front? Is there a way to allow academics to cite blogs when listing academic publishing achievements? How about peer review blogging? |
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