A great irony with the notion of meritocracy is that it is now used in a way contrary to its original, critical, intention.

In an …

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There’s been a lot of press about the forthcoming Arbitration Committee decision on the conduct of editors on the GamerGate article. For instance, today …

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Contemporary discussions often make use of terms and concepts divorced from their origins. When I investigate, I’m sometimes delighted to find trenchant essays whose …

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Popular discussions often make use of terms and concepts divorced from their origins. When I investigate, I’m sometimes delighted to find trenchant essays whose …

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The aphorism “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” is common in contemporary life. It is often attributed to business guru …

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At Northeastern this week we had a GamerGate town hall meeting and I thought it’d be useful to share some resources as a follow-up …

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In Online Communities we recently spent a class focused on designing for gratitude. The task for the day was to “Give at least one Wikipedian …

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A draft of Following the Joneses: FOMO and Conspicuous Sociality (DRAFT) is now available.

ABSTRACT: I argue that the emergence and proliferation of the term …

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There are thousands of books about how to work and deliberate together. There’s also a subgenre headed by Sun Tzu’s The Art of …

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Wikipedia citations and bibliographies are a confusing mess. This just isn’t the case for newbies, but also experienced academics. In “Wikipedia’s Citation Mess …

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