[Air-l] Doctorow on Dealing With Trolls

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

Yes, I think we should be very wary of getting involved with dr. reid  
cornwell.   his empire is expanding of course.  if you google him you  
will see that he has at least 3 different institutes/centers/ 
foundations all related to his corporate entity, he has several  
conferences, which he seems intent on leveraging academic expertise  
to promote.  To me, it sounds very much like a profit from  
conferences system, leveraging academic expertise, which I find  
distasteful.  I also find it distasteful that he has appropriated the  
emails from the list and is spamming members.  It is spam in as much  
as it was unrequested and there is one profit making entity  
involved.  If you received his personal invitations, i suggest you  
think twice, because it is likely that everyone on the list received  
very much the same invitation.  I personally wouldn't want to have  
one of his conferences on my vita, i think it would have negative  
mojo to some people who have been bothered by him before.


Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,  
think. --Byron