INLS 180 Day 11 Notes
April 10, 2006
Next week some issues
2 weeks, project presentations (schedule to be posted)
Once again a theme that we do not live in a binary world: continua re-re-re-visited
Points
MPACT study as a new kind of impact measure
Rankings have real impact even if they are flawed
Free-----fee continuum
There are important applications of citations beyond productivity (collection dev, spread of knowledge, devel of fields)
Questions
Impact of length on citation?
Is tenure flawed/outdated?
Are publishers all evil? Do they serve important purposes?
How much do authors get in royalties online? (check out lulu.com)
Why does not googlescholar link to articles on personal websites? [sounds like a new service opp!]
Are there ways to automatically assess the intent of a citation (e.g., + or -)?
2. Computer-mediated communication: How does adding a computational device change the basic Shannon model?
Demo ISEE
3. Discuss reading/explorations:
Blog posts:
groupthink mitigated or exacerbated by online forums?
Is political correctness groupthink?
Can groupthink be +? Chaos-----Groupthink continuum and random-----redundancy continuum info theory revisit
Nice debate—CMC cycles beginning to form in the blog posts
Nice use of blog for other purposes (Mike’s pointers for others, including noumenal clouds)
Moorhead, G., Ference, R., & Neck, C. P. (1991). Group decision fiascoes continue: Space Shuttle Challenger and a groupthink framework. Human Relations, 44(6). 539-550
The Cochrane Collaboration. http://www.cochrane.org/index0.htm
The Open Directory. http://dmoz.org/
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/
4. Examine/read for next meeting:
Read for next meeting:
Samuelson, P. (2003). Digital rights management and fair use by design: DRM {and or vs} the law CACM, ACM DL online
ALA. Key Principles on government information. http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/governmentinfo/keyprins.htm
Optional:
Samuelson, P. (2001). Toward a new politics of intellectual property (ACM DL)
New Scientist. US non-lethal weapon reports suppressed.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2254
5. One-minute paper concept
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?