[Air-L] Antw: Re: The connection between "alienated labor" and "whether to name reviewers"

[Alan Bilansky]

Sam,

Aside form demanding money, as a way to address alienation in academic
labor, I would first advocate only reviewing for publications with open
access policies.  (Currently I don't have the bargaining power to make
either demand. . . .)

Best,

Alan


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Johann Hoechtl <
Johann.Hoechtl at donau-uni.ac.at> wrote:

>
>
> >>> Sam Lehman-wilzig <Sam.Lehman-Wilzig at biu.ac.il> schrieb am 11.09.2013
> um 14:28
> in Nachricht <12CC0190-5EE2-41B7-BB59-F30F1D1A6004 at biu.ac.il>:
> > Hi all:
> > I find interesting that no one seems to realize that the two seemingly
> > "unrelated" topics we are discussing (see below) are actually the same
> issue!
> > If there is performing "alienated labor" it is academic referees of
> articles,
> > editors of journals, etc -- who are not compensated for their work! Why
> > shouldn't an academic, COMMERCIAL journal (one that demands payment from
> > subscribers -- institutional and individual), PAY article reviewers, the
> > journal editors etc for their reviews? If they did that, then the
> reviewers
> > would feel a lot more obligated to devote serious attention to their
> > refereeing review. In my opinion, paying for article review (even if it's
> > $100 or so per article) would solve most of the problems mentioned here
> > regarding unprofessional (or no-show) reviewers -- and perhaps also
> sensitizing
> > them a bit more to the whole issue of "alienated labor" in other spheres.
> > Sam
>
> I am sceptical concerning your reasoning.
>
> 1. Money, as a hygiene factor, will not rise quality of reviews for a long
> time and can even have adverse effects (cf.
> http://thefilter.blogs.com/thefilter/2009/12/the-israeli-childcare-experiment.html
> );
> 2. Now we need someone verifying the work of reviewers (as money will have
> to be paid upon successfull completion of work), thus quality control for
> quality control; and
> 3. as reviewers will have to be paid, publishers have another argument to
> raise prices from 100$ to 120$.  Disclosure: I believe in Open Science
>
> Thus I see the relation between these two topics, yet they call for a
> different solution.
>
> Johann
> >
> > Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig
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> > School of Communication
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> >
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> >
>
>
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