Digital Knowledge Commons: A Brief Introduction

By Graham Jensen

University of Victoria

This video provides an overview of the history of digital knowledge commons, as well as some of the challenges facing today's digital knowledge commons and academic social networking sites. These challenges include the enclosure or…

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Version 2.0 - published on 13 Jun 2022 doi: 10.25547/AVHX-DJ22 - cite this

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    Jesse Thomas

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    I follow quite a few folks on Twitter who are considering leaving after the 2022 sale of the platform. This recent event makes Graham Jensen’s presentation even more relevant to scholars looking for alternatives to commercial social networking sites like academia.edu and researchgate. I appreciate that Graham Jensen’s discussion of social networking sites in academia not only argues against the scarcity model of the knowledge commons but also discusses actual concerns related to these sites. Specifically, he discusses how private ASNS make profit by the exploitation of users and data, which moves the responsibility for care of the commons from the users to the company. As an RA at the ETCL not directly involved in the HSS Commons, this presentation gave me some context for the initiative and introduced me to some knowledge commons I wasn’t familiar with (specifically Figshare, MediaCommons, SocArXiv, Zenodo, and the Dataverse).

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