While listening to Trouble For Elservier I was really intrigued with it, honestly I enjoyed listening to this. I found it interesting that he did not pay his workers so they were basically "slaves" and that led to them boycotting against Elservier, and they also told others not to fool with his work which basically demoted his business.
When listening to the second snippet; New England Journal of Medicine I learned about how a whole bunch of health tips that the public should be aware of were made free to the public. They basically were looking out for the public.
When listening to The Changing Nature of Knowledge I learned that the internet used to be very censored and that only a few thing were exposed when talking about knowledge. We now live in a day and age where everything on the internet becomes viral and seen when posted online. I think it has made us lazier in a sense because we just look on the internet for all of our answers.
I believe the common theme of these snippets are that if information is meant to be put out for the public or others it will somehow get out in some form or fashion. My reaction to these stories is that I find it very amusing what I learned by listening to these and like things used to be censored knowledge wise is a surprise to me.
I think you wanted us to listen to these snippets to understand that information is out there and is being released to the public every second. Also that us undergraduate students benefit from it by finding a lot of information and this can help us through college if we know the right info to use.
I do not like the fact that it is not affordable for some college students. I find that crazy that their knowledge is limited because of the price. I am glad that I do not have to pay directly for the journals at school. I know that in some way I pay for it.
ReplyDeleteSo, in the third section about the Changing Nature of Knowledge, it's not that the internet used to be very censored, it's that publishing was a lot more selective before the internet made it easy to self-publish. While there was some censorship, it was more a matter of judging value -- for popular books, will enough people buy it to make it worth doing all of the typesetting and printing and whatnot? Now, the author can just format it correctly for Kindle and publish it themselves if a big publisher doesn't think it will be profitable enough to print.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, there is a huge amount of info out there - a lot of great stuff and a lot of crap, so you need to actively evaluate everything! While you're a student, you have access to a lot of great, credible resources through the library -- but you'll lose access to a lot of that stuff when you graduate, unless Open Access becomes more popular.