[Air-l] Disseminating Research Results

[natpoor at umich.edu]

I used to work in the computer publishing industry and, since I follow 
computers, still read some of the pubs on occasion.

Dvorak is... well I have nothing nice to say about him. A windbag. A 
troll (in the Internet sense). He is always right, never wrong (in his 
opinion), and although yes he knows some things many feel he doesn't do 
any research about the topics he writes on anymore, he is just cruising 
on his laurels (to mix metaphors).

We may not be getting word out about our work, but once Dvorak has made 
up his mind about something, nothing else really matters. He's a 
journalist (marginally), and he refuses to even do basic research about 
the topics he covers. Shameful.


Quoting Ingbert Floyd <ifloyd2 at gmail.com>:

> It seems we're not getting the word out about our research enough:
>
> Dvorak, John C. Academics: Get to Work! We need sociological studies
> about the Net and computers. February 21, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/k7vw6
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1928970,00.asp
>
> Intro:
>
> "Universities have got to focus their attention on computers and the
> Internet. There are far too many understudied phenomena bubbling on the
> Net, and it's time for academia to wake up. Valuable time is being
> wasted."
>
> Ingbert Floyd
> PhD Student
> Graduate School of Library and Information Science
> University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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