Category: academia
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How the Internet will (one day) transform government
I keep several playlists on my YouTube account. My favorite one is called just “gems”. In it I keep a few videos that I often look back, because they had such an impact on me when I first watched it. Clay Shirky’s TED Talk from 2012 (below) is one of them. He is thinking about…
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Academic research is publicly funded — why isn’t it publicly available?
In the US, your taxes fund academic research at public universities. Why then do you need to pay expensive, for-profit journals for the results of that research? Erica Stone advocates for a new, open-access relationship between the public and scholars, making the case that academics should publish in more accessible media.