Comments on: Open Peer Review http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/16/open-peer-review/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Zach Whalen http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/16/open-peer-review/#comment-42 Wed, 19 May 2010 14:57:52 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=126#comment-42 I’m quite interested in this topic, as I’m currently struggling with your step 1 (begging and pleading) for a project that is sort of similar to Planned Obsolescence.

I’m working to transform my dissertation into a book (or something book-shaped), and I’m trying to do that transformation in the public view. Phase 1 is to incrementally post the dissertation text, and invite commentary section by section by posting to twitter. It’s been an interesting process from my point of view, but hardly anyone’s reading it, as far as I can tell.

Could it be that my topic is too esoteric, or that I haven’t done enough or the right kind of begging and pleading?

In other words, I’m interested in that community aspect, more so than the validation of review committees et al., at least at this point in my career. I’m also a little more interested in doing something with value (to me if no one else) than I am in transforming academic publishing, although that would be nice too.

By the way, my project is on typography and textuality in videogames, and I’m doing it in a Drupal-powered website here: www.thevideogametext.com.

]]> By: Douglas Knox http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/04/16/open-peer-review/#comment-41 Sun, 16 May 2010 02:51:39 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=126#comment-41 These are great questions, and look like they may be in a strategic sequence. I have seen some quite successful examples of communities of interest that meet regularly face-to-face to discuss work in progress, without mechanisms of credentialing as an immediate presence or motivation. That makes me wonder if some kind of real-time event, virtual or face-to-face, couldn’t help with (1) and (2). Particular communities of interest are already motivated enough sometimes to do things (like THATCamp, come to think of it) solely because of the value they find in trying to think synthetically in dialogue together. Some of these communities could conceivably over time develop a certain self-authorizing credibility that could start to help indirectly with (3).

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