Watertown Daily Times | Clarkson professor shoots documentary on accessing research and why it matters

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Summary:

"Jason Schmitt likes disruption. He experienced it himself while working at Atlantic Records when MP3 files began to be popular. “Within a year, we were all out of jobs,” he said. As an academic and a journalist, he has written about how technology has disrupted music, businesses, organizations and higher education. Now Mr. Schmitt, an associate professor of communication and media at Clarkson University, is making a documentary called “Paywall: The Business of Scholarship” about a field that is still trying to hold out against digital disruption — academic publishing...."

Link:

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20180114/NEWS05/180119110

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Date tagged:

01/16/2018, 12:18

Date published:

01/16/2018, 07:18