By: michaelroy
I wonder if it is worth clarifying what you mean by the phrase ‘our institutions’; I suspect that you don’t mean just the individual colleges and universities that employ us, but also professional...
View ArticleBy: Nick Mirzoeff
I’m reading this in the wake of the UEA climate centre scandal: the Guardian ran a long piece showing that peer review–which has been held up as a gold standard in refereeing climate change–was being...
View ArticleBy: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
I’ll have to look for that piece, Nick; it seems exactly à propos. (There’s a bit later on in a footnote about peer review producing rather than preventing the Vioxx/Celebra heart attack scandals;...
View ArticleBy: George Carr
Agreeing with previous posters, I think this paragraph contains the kernel of a much more complex argument, about the structure of academic credibility and authority, and its democratic (and...
View ArticleBy: Steve Brier
As much as I respect Bob Stein, the definitive comment on Wikipedia and history remains my departed comrade Roy Rosenzweig's brilliant intervention on the subject: "Can History Be Open Source?...
View ArticleBy: Jack Dougherty, “Storytelling and Civil Rights: From Dissertation to Book...
[...] media means that the only working system is publish-then-filter” (Here Comes Everybody 98). . . [Read this Fitzpatrick (2009) passage in context] [...]
View ArticleBy: Richard E. Miller
I don’t think the reference to Duncan works. Her death was quick and violent; by some accounts she was nearly decapitated. I don’t think peer review has the power to act in this way on innovations in...
View ArticleBy: Outline | English 507 (Spring 2012 / Sayers)
[...] Reading: (1) Fitzpatrick, “Peer Review” (from draft version of Planned Obsolescence), (2) Nowviskie, “Why, Oh Why, CC-BY,” and [...]
View ArticleBy: Wikipedia: to Use or Not to Use « MegLit
[...] use Wikipedia. I personally think that’s a disservice and it seems that Roy Rosenzwig and Kathleen Fitzpatrick [...]
View ArticleBy: The Internet Will Not Save Us — But Maybe it can Help Us Fix Peer Review...
[…] focus is the future of the academy, particularly in relation to emerging technologies. In the first chapter, Fitzpatrick takes on the problem of peer-review, which, she notes, is employed “in...
View ArticleBy: The Internet Will Not Save Us — But Maybe it can Help Us Fix Peer-Review...
[…] focus is the future of the academy, particularly in relation to emerging technologies. In the first chapter, Fitzpatrick takes on the problem of peer-review, which, she notes, is employed “in...
View ArticleBy: CFP: The Scholarly & the Digital - Hybrid Pedagogy
[…] The reliance upon peer review — as much in its role in publishing as its role in tenure and promotion, employment, and the multifarious ways it’s structural to academic life and work — demands...
View ArticleBy: Policy and Prejudice: My Promotion Postmortem » Novel Readings - Notes on...
[…] it was impossible to assess the quality or originality of my publications. (As if blind peer review guarantees either, of course, and as if there aren’t other ways of determining quality … but I...
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