- Vie and deWinter – Disrupting Intellectual Property, from Wikis in Composition – For teachers mainly. > By challenging the authority of the single authorial voice, wikis also call into question traditional notions of intellectual property as a market commodity. These notions propagate the argument that ideas are a unique product of individual labor and can thus “belong” to a single person. It may be precisely because wikis challenge these established notions that some student users resist their use in the classroom. In keeping with this general theme, the questions that guide our research are as follows: What is the currency of intellectual property in the university setting? Do wikis, in fact, disrupt established, dominant notions of intellectual property? – (wiki en3177 collaboration collaborativewriting copyright )
- The Peek-a-Boo World of a Global Villager – The Hawk’s Roost – Connects Blood, Rettberg, and McLuhan in the social media village:
> Does the disciplined approach, which blogging in its intended form is described as possessing, offer the solution to legitimizing the discussions we as a society are having. Am I wrong in sensing that social media has become plagued with a lack of ethical discourse, where important social issues are overwhelmed with copious amounts of misinformation. Where the atmosphere is clouded with an overall lack of informational credibility? – (weblogs )
- Trump’s America, where even park employees have become enemies of the state | Sarah Kendzior | Opinion | The Guardian – A consideration of Trump's alternative facts and their rhetorical use.
> What Americans have learned is that our system of checks and balances is so weak that even parks employees can become enemies of the state. They are learning their rights as they lose them, grieving for what they once took for granted. Fear is matched by incredulity that hundreds of years of imperfect democracy could cede into autocracy with such ease. Trump’s win was followed by debate over what it means to live in a “post-facts” world. This was a fatuous debate: if facts did not matter, then Trump and his team, whose threats of punishment and litigation long preceded his official lock on power, would not work so hard to suppress them. The idea of a fact always mattered – it simply had to be the Trump administration’s facts that counted. Trump’s adviser, Kellyanne Conway, made this blatant last weekend when she stated that the administration would proffer “alternative facts” that justified its political aims. – (politics rhetoric trump )
Tag: collaboration
- Trump is no outsider: he mirrors our political culture – I didn't think I would bother with statements of the obvious, but hey ha. Trump puts the ideology of the right into the limelight, where it promptly and predictably melts.
"What is new and different about him is that he has streamlined these narratives into a virulent demagoguery. But the opportunity has been building for years; all that was required was someone blunt and unscrupulous enough to take it. … Trump disgusts us because, where others use a dog whistle, he uses a klaxon. We hate to hear his themes so clearly articulated. But we know in our hearts that they suffuse the way the world is run." – (politics corporateculture )
- Storyspace and hypertext: index to articles – – (none)
- Christopher Marlowe credited as one of Shakespeare’s co-writers | Culture | The Guardian – i bloody knew it! Now waiting for the New Oxford to publish between Oct and Dec. – (literature collaboration collaborativewriting )
- Collaborative Literary Creation and Control – – (hypertext collaboration copyright )
- The Impact of Computer Usage on Academic Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Trial at the United States Military Academy – Disclaimer: The study did not look at students using computers as party of the class. It looked at their presence w/o instruction or direction from instructors. "Average final exam scores among students assigned to classrooms that allowed computers were 18 percent of a standard deviation lower than exam scores of students in classrooms that prohibited computers. Through the use of two separate treatment arms, we uncover evidence that this negative effect occurs in classrooms where laptops and tablets are permitted without restriction and in classrooms where students are only permitted to use tablets that must remain flat on the desk surface." – (classroompractice )
- We Have Personalization Backwards – "But the biggest advantage of a tutor is not that they personalize the task, it’s that they personalize the explanation. " – (de automated_learning )
- Precarious Deliberation and Failing Faster: The Value of Glitch in Multimodal Public Writing Assignments – – (dh composing comp_theory )
- Bootstrapping the Library | Hapgood – – (dh fedwiki wikity scaffolding scholarship2.0 )
- Collaborative Literary Creation and Control – Co-written article, addresses collab in Webster's Revised, Pound and Eliot. Looks at collaborative techniques as they are supported in word processors, Xanadu, and wiki. Reviews techniques and evaluating techniques. – (#en3177 wiki collaboration collaborativewriting notetaking )
- Doug Dorst puts the S. in ‘Ship of Theseus’ with this JJ Abrams Collaboration – The author presents his new literary creation at BookPeople tonight – Books Daily – The Austin Chronicle – The transcript of interview with Dorst – (dh literature collaboration )
- Inside J.J. Abrams’s Brain-Bending Book-Within-a-Book | Co.Create | Creativity Culture Commerce – – (dh literature )
- What the New York Times’s ‘Snow Fall’ Means to Online Journalism’s Future – Technology – The Atlantic Wire – – (none)
- How The New York Times’ ‘Snow Fall’ project unifies text, multimedia | Poynter. – The discussion of how the piece was composed demonstrates that it is more like vid and simulation inserted into the text stream that structures the story, in a very conservative, none-risky way. "better design" here means using the genre-traditional structure to guide the placement of other media. Media are added on not integral to. That's not future. What's revealing is that the designers are basing their choices on traditional text-encompassed values. – (multimedia multimodal journalism semiotics )
- Google Docs vs. Microsoft Word: An Even Matchup? – mark the secion on collaboration: not ral time but asynch, using comments and markup – (collaborativewriting collaboration )
- The Ed Techie: Twitter as interdisciplinary tool & culture – Martin Weller discusses how some of the conventions of twitter help users organize their space to support interdiscplinarity. Mentions reasons for retweeting and how hash tags are used. – (twitter en3177 hashtag @ retweet collaboration socialpractices )
- 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error – (none)
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bookmarks for March 8th, 2010
- Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” – is longstanding recommendation that they should shut down their print editions and embrace the Web wholeheartedly. “You gotta burn the boats,” he told me, “you gotta commit.” His point is that if traditional media companies don’t burn their own boats, somebody else will. – (print publishing media newmedia )
- Who Does What On Wikipedia? – Technology News – redOrbit – Ram and Liu identified seven specific roles that Wikipedia contributors play.<br />
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Starters, for example, create sentences but seldom engage in other actions. Content justifiers create sentences and justify them with resources and links. Copy editors contribute primarily though modifying existing sentences. Some users – the all-round contributors – perform many different functions.<br />
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"We then clustered the articles based on these roles and examined the collaboration patterns within each cluster to see what kind of quality resulted," Ram said. "We found that all-round contributors dominated the best-quality entries. In the entries with the lowest quality, starters and casual contributors dominated."<br />
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To generate the best-quality entries, she says, people in many different roles must collaborate. Ram and Liu suggest that the results of this study should spark the design of software tools that can help improve quality. – (wikis collaborativewriting collaboration ) - Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” – is longstanding recommendation that they should shut down their print editions and embrace the Web wholeheartedly. “You gotta burn the boats,” he told me, “you gotta commit.” His point is that if traditional media companies don’t burn their own boats, somebody else will. – (print publishing media newmedia )
- Who Does What On Wikipedia? – Technology News – redOrbit – Ram and Liu identified seven specific roles that Wikipedia contributors play.<br />
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Starters, for example, create sentences but seldom engage in other actions. Content justifiers create sentences and justify them with resources and links. Copy editors contribute primarily though modifying existing sentences. Some users – the all-round contributors – perform many different functions.<br />
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"We then clustered the articles based on these roles and examined the collaboration patterns within each cluster to see what kind of quality resulted," Ram said. "We found that all-round contributors dominated the best-quality entries. In the entries with the lowest quality, starters and casual contributors dominated."<br />
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To generate the best-quality entries, she says, people in many different roles must collaborate. Ram and Liu suggest that the results of this study should spark the design of software tools that can help improve quality. – (wikis collaborativewriting collaboration ) - Patterns of Collaboration on Wikis – identifies some of the strategies that create solid collaborative work on wikis by looking at life cycles on corporate wikis – (wikis refactoring collaborativewriting collaboration research system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )
- Deeplinking » Back to Paper: Mind Maps and Sketch Notes – – (conceptmap material erhetoric notetaking ple )
- Deeplinking » Glosses Through the Ages – – (notetaking annotation PLE reading erhetoric )
- McKinsey: What Matters: Using technology to improve workforce collaboration – As much about poor management as about technology. Waste. We have documented 10 types of collaboration waste (Exhibit 2). In the case of managers, for example, effective collaboration demands that the manager not only agrees on specific objectives but also that he /she can communicate how to achieve them. – (wiki collaboration bad_management )
- chofmann’s weblog: FLOSS Manuals: Changing the Publishing World One Book at a Time. – The FLOSS Manuals Project wants to change all by bringing open source concepts to publishing. They are engaged in building a platform and community designed to get interesting books published and do it on faster cycles. I recently had a chance to participate in a FLOSS Manual Book Sprint as they worked on a Firefox Manual – (booksprints publishing2.0 publishing )
- chofmann’s weblog: FLOSS Manuals: Changing the Publishing World One Book at a Time. – The FLOSS Manuals Project wants to change all by bringing open source concepts to publishing. They are engaged in building a platform and community designed to get interesting books published and do it on faster cycles. I recently had a chance to participate in a FLOSS Manual Book Sprint as they worked on a Firefox Manual – (booksprints publishing2.0 publishing )
- BookSprints (en) – FLOSSManuals guide to planning and running a booksprint;. – (booksprints techwriting freelancing weblogs en3177 writing book collaboration documentation socialpractices )