Wikilinks:
-Essjay, the prolific Wikipedian introduced in Stacy Schiff's article "Know It All: Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise?" as a tenured professor of religion, is actually a 24 year-old with no academic credentials. I love this so much because (1) it's such a good story--not even the NYer is safe from the ephemeral confabulations of web culture--and (2) it offers the hope that all truths will be revealed.
-Timothy Noah in Slate is making a good case that Wikipedia should abandon its notability guideline.
-The Academic Blog Portal is a wiki aggregating blogs by academics. If you haven't already, go add or edit entries. (It annoys me that I am most suited either to the Culture, Theory, Literature category under Humanities or the Media and Communications category under Professions and Useful Arts. I think of myself as a media humanist. Categories, huh? Anyhow, annoyed, but not enough to do anything but complain. Useful arts is a funny phrase. Who studies useless arts?)
Update: check out the motherlode of Essjay links.
Loved that note in TNY. The tone of it, the fact of it, the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the creators of the portal knew what to do with media studies people. IIRC, I'm in Culture, Theory, Literature, too.
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