Sanger’s latest article, Who Says We Know: on the New Politics of Knowledge is an argument that meritocracy, including an authority accorded to credentialed …

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Recently two short essays, which started out as blog entries here, have been published in collections that might be of interest to readers. In Re-public …

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Longtime readers will know I’ve been frequently frustrated and puzzled by NYU’s infrastructural choices. When I first arrived I learned they used my …

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Since I am a student of plagiarism in reference work production, I read with interest Daniel Brandt’s (2006) analysis of Plagiarism by Wikipedia editors …

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On the Association of Internet Researchers mailing list Tamara Paradis raised the question of the origins of the term “Internet”. I am not sure why …

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Like others, I have been surprised that the Wikipedia policies of No Original Research (WP:NOR, Wikipedia 2006nor) and Verifiability (WP:V, Wikipedia 2006v) had …

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Yesterday’s New York Times reported on another case of high profile plagiarism: a relatively young professor who had copied parts of her dissertation from …

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Despite appearances, I do make note of the Wikipedia disaffected. A possible criticism of my work is my focus on the notion of “good faith …

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An issue related to the question of priority, noted in a previous entry, is the general historical question of causality. Priority, who first had an …

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Last week I read a provocative paper by Helen Nissenbaum (2002) where she considers the norms, values, and ends previously served by the convention of …

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