Comments on: Links for 2006-02-26 http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/02/26/links-for-2006-02-26/ social commentary, gadgets, art, travel and whatever else comes to mind Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:02:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: bryan http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/02/26/links-for-2006-02-26/#comment-13378 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:08:34 +0000 http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/02/26/links-for-2006-02-26/#comment-13378 So let's see: Academics aren't doing research because I'm too lazy to go over to an academic library and look up <em>actual social scientific research</em> that's being published in this arena? How this man keeps his job is amazing. Perhaps there's a form of tenure at PCMag. Not to mention that his assertion that it's all "locked down" is utter b.s. as well. I can point to at least three places that are totally open where he can find plenty of such research - Barry Wellman at U of Toronto has most of his academic output online and available at his web site. (the late) Rob Kling of the center for Social Informatics at Indiana has a good deal of material online. And the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication is entirely available online for the entire world. Give me an hour and I could probably dig up much more. So let’s see: Academics aren’t doing research because I’m too lazy to go over to an academic library and look up actual social scientific research that’s being published in this arena? How this man keeps his job is amazing. Perhaps there’s a form of tenure at PCMag.

Not to mention that his assertion that it’s all “locked down” is utter b.s. as well. I can point to at least three places that are totally open where he can find plenty of such research - Barry Wellman at U of Toronto has most of his academic output online and available at his web site. (the late) Rob Kling of the center for Social Informatics at Indiana has a good deal of material online. And the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication is entirely available online for the entire world. Give me an hour and I could probably dig up much more.

]]> by: eszter http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/02/26/links-for-2006-02-26/#comment-13373 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:05:57 +0000 http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/02/26/links-for-2006-02-26/#comment-13373 He ends up addressing this to some extent in the comments: "That said I'd love to go to the Google Scholar and see what's what. I can decode most of the BS having taken a lot of sociology in college myself. The problem is that almost everything in Google Scholar is locked down to everyone unless they are a professor from a school subscribing to the service. And I'm adverse to spending a lot of money to look through the library. I suppose I could go over to Berkeley and go on the system on campus, but that's a hassle." <a href="http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/2/1004306354/ShowPost.aspx#1004306354" rel="nofollow">http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/2/1004306354/ShowPost.aspx#1004306354</a> He ends up addressing this to some extent in the comments:

“That said I’d love to go to the Google Scholar and see what’s what. I can decode most of the BS having taken a lot of sociology in college myself. The problem is that almost everything in Google Scholar is locked down to everyone unless they are a professor from a school subscribing to the service. And I’m adverse to spending a lot of money to look through the library. I suppose I could go over to Berkeley and go on the system on campus, but that’s a hassle.”
http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/2/1004306354/ShowPost.aspx#1004306354

]]> by: bryan http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/02/26/links-for-2006-02-26/#comment-13372 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:42:07 +0000 http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/02/26/links-for-2006-02-26/#comment-13372 John Dvorak apparently doesn't know how to do a lit review, because his statements in that PC Mag article are utterly ignorant of the amount of academic research that is being and has been done in the arena of internet and computers. John Dvorak apparently doesn’t know how to do a lit review, because his statements in that PC Mag article are utterly ignorant of the amount of academic research that is being and has been done in the arena of internet and computers.

]]> by: The Flogz Blog » Links from Micro Persuasion and others http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/02/26/links-for-2006-02-26/#comment-13371 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 05:13:44 +0000 http://www.esztersblog.com/2006/02/26/links-for-2006-02-26/#comment-13371 [...] And a blog I haven’t heard of called Eszter’s Blog. [...] […] And a blog I haven’t heard of called Eszter’s Blog. […]

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