Access Denied? Public Scholarship and the peril of being a woman – Digital Islander: No (Wo)Man Is An Island

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-10-13

Summary:

"So how do we strike a balance between advocating for online open public scholarship and supporting the psychological and professional safety of those people who are more likely to be subjected to the trauma of online harassment? I don’t know the answer yet, but I think one direction may lie in creating new options for academic publishing. I imagine a cooperative and collaborative online open access journal, run via each institution, which supports anonymous or pseudonymous research sharing by members of the academic community. A publication in which researchers can submit plain language blog posts which can be cross posted to social media by the institution and which represents the output of the research. Once submitted, the academic who wrote the post does not assume the responsibility of moderating the post, rather the responsibility lies with the institution. And the benefit of such a system would be that the work itself would be removed from the identity of the person who wrote about the work. In this case, it’s the research dissemination equivalent of musicians auditioning for the symphony behind a screen – and it thus could have a levelling effect...."

Link:

https://webspace.royalroads.ca/jhodson/access-denied-public-scholarship-and-the-peril-of-being-a-woman/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Amyluv's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.access oa.social_media oa.trends oa.discrimination oa.scholcomm oa.anonymity

Date tagged:

10/13/2017, 00:13

Date published:

10/12/2017, 05:02