[Air-L] Open Scholarship and Zoom censorship (was: non-Zoom platforms)

[Alexandre Hocquet]

On 10/27/20 3:41 PM, Alexandre Hocquet wrote:
> Scholars once designed email and mailing lists for their communication 
> needs as open protocols. They are now surrendering their 
> computer-mediated communication tools to proprietary platforms 40 years 
> later. This "absurdist" situation according to one of the academics 
> involved in the Zoom censorship turmoil is a direct consequence of this 
> giving away.

Dear AoIRers,
My piece in The Conversation now has an English version. The claim is 
the same as above but the English version builds on the "Zoom 
censorship" event that sparked outrage in the academic community as a 
very good example of the issues at stake.

https://theconversation.com/debate-is-open-scholarship-even-possible-with-zoom-149293

Articles in The Conversation are published under a CC-BY-ND license, so 
any media outlet interested in republishing is very welcome.


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Alexandre Hocquet
Archives Henri Poincaré & Science History Institute
Alexandre.Hocquet at univ-lorraine.fr
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https://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet
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