{"id":3300,"date":"2016-02-02T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openreflections.wordpress.com\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T11:40:28","slug":"videos-why-are-we-not-boycotting-academia-edu-symposium-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/?p=3300","title":{"rendered":"Videos \u2018Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu\u2019 Symposium Now Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3302\" src=\"https:\/\/openreflections.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cz1bijuxeaafo5b.png\" alt=\"CZ1bijUXEAAfo5B\" width=\"486\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cz1bijuxeaafo5b.png 486w, https:\/\/openreflections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cz1bijuxeaafo5b-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In view of the current <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingarchaeology.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/01\/academiaedu-wants-to-commercialize-its.html?m=1\">discussion taking place<\/a> over Academia.edu&#8217;s introduction of an &#8216;article recommendation charge&#8217;, and the subsequent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeleteAcademiaEdu?src=hash\">#DeleteAcademiaEdu<\/a>\u00a0hashtag, we thought you might be interested in this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Last month <em>The Centre for Disruptive Media<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/disruptivemedia.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/disruptivemedia.org.uk\/<\/a>) at Coventry University organised a symposium on academic social networking platforms called &#8216;Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?&#8217; Chaired by Janneke Adema (Coventry University, UK) speakers included Pascal Aventurier (INRA, France), Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA\/Coventry University, US), Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK), and David Parry (Saint Joseph University, US).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">The videos from this symposium are now available underneath and online at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Boycottingacademiaedu\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Boycottingacademiaedu<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">The event addressed the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n<li>Why have researchers been so ready to campaign against\u00a0for-profit academic publishers such as\u00a0Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, and Taylor &amp; Francis\/Informa, but not against for-profit platforms such as Academia.edu ResearchGate and Google Scholar?<\/li>\n<li>Should academics refrain from providing free labour for these publishing companies too?<\/li>\n<li>Are there non-profit alternatives to such commercial platforms academics should support instead?<\/li>\n<li>Could they take inspiration from the editors of\u00a0Lingua\u00a0(now\u00a0Glossa) and start their own scholar-owned and controlled platform cooperatives for the sharing of research?<\/li>\n<li>Or are such \u2018technologies of the self\u2019 or \u2018political technologies of individuals\u2019, as we might call them following Michel Foucault, merely part of a wider process\u00a0by which academics are being transformed into connected individuals who\u00a0endeavour to generate social, public and professional value by acting as microentrepreneurs of their own selves and lives?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">For more on this symposium see: <u>http:\/\/disruptivemedia.org.uk\/why-are-we-not-boycotting-academia-edu\/<\/u><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To speed up streaming of these videos, watch them as ogg videos via the links underneath:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ia601506.us.archive.org\/34\/items\/Boycottingacademiaedu\/1%20-%20Introduction%20and%20Pascal%20Aventurier.ogv\" rel=\"nofollow\">Introduction and Pascal Aventurier<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/Boycottingacademiaedu\/2%20-%20Kathleen%20Fitzpatrick.ogv\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kathleen Fitzpatrick<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/Boycottingacademiaedu\/3%20-%20Gary%20Hall.ogv\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gary Hall<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/Boycottingacademiaedu\/4%20-%20David%20Parry.ogv\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Parry<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/Boycottingacademiaedu\/5%20-%20Closing%20Remarks%20and%20Q&amp;A.ogv\" rel=\"nofollow\">Closing Remarks and Q&amp;A<\/a>[archiveorg Boycottingacademiaedu width=640 height=480 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen=true mozallowfullscreen=true]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In view of the current discussion taking place over Academia.edu&#8217;s introduction of an &#8216;article recommendation charge&#8217;, and the subsequent #DeleteAcademiaEdu\u00a0hashtag, we thought you might be interested in this: Last month The Centre for Disruptive Media (http:\/\/disruptivemedia.org.uk\/) at Coventry University organised a symposium on academic social networking platforms called &#8216;Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?&#8217; 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