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23 juillet 2017

Tell Me If You've Heard This One Before

By Barbara Fister. Another day, another article with the man-bites-dog lede “libraries, threatened with irrelevance, now care about students instead of dusty old books.” I won’t bother linking; they are legion. More...

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23 juillet 2017

Fahrenheit 404

By Barbara Fister. We have always been at war with the Internet. No, I’m not talking about trolls or flamewars but efforts to keep this globally interconnected digital space a place where freedom can thrive. What that freedom looks like, of course, is endlessly debatable. More...

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23 juillet 2017

Terms and Conditions

By Barbara Fister. It’s early and I’m not quite awake when the news shows a man being shot to death – a clip I’ve heard already many times, but this morning I’m not alert enough to turn away and fumble for the mute button. More...

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23 juillet 2017

Belonging Online and In the Library

By Barbara Fister. Librarians have been thinking quite a bit about their library as a place in the last decade or so. They also try to make their digital spaces convenient for users to orient themselves and get to the information they seek. More...

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23 juillet 2017

How Not To Fight Terrorism

By Barbara Fister. I suppose it’s inevitable, given that information-driven tech-centered global corporations dominate the list of Big Rich Companies, that information systems play a significant role in 21st century terrorism. ISIS has famously made effective use of social media platforms for recruitment purposes. More...

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23 juillet 2017

The Boundaries of 'Information' in Information Literacy

By Barbara Fister. We have daily contact with a lot of information systems. Do we talk about them when we talk about information literacy. More...

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23 juillet 2017

Peering Into Peer Review

By Barbara Fister. A recent hoax has gotten a lot of attention, including here at Inside Higher Ed. To demonstrate that the field of gender studies is prone to accepting utter nonsense as scholarship, two wags got an article published in a peer reviewed journal and then pointed and laughed. More...

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23 juillet 2017

Faux Protest

By Tracy Mitrano. Remember when Wikipedia went black over SOPA and PIPA (thank you Aaron Swartz)? Now that was a protest that got people’s attention and contributed mightily to the legislation being overthrown. More...

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23 juillet 2017

Sex and IT in higher education

By Tracy Mitrano. From the Ellen Pao’s sexual harassment case to Susan Fowler’s expose of Uber, the press is suddenly paying a lot of attention to the issue of women’s experience in technology. More...

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23 juillet 2017

All the Future in an Op-Ed

By Tracy Mitrano. “The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence,” an op-ed in The New York Times, is the important article you can read and contemplate this week. Its kernel concept: forget the sci-fi concerns about AI, reducing humans to cyborgs; the real threat comes in age-old questions about the distribution of power among the humans who control it. More...

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