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04 Mar 08
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What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers
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nonprofit group designing blog tools for scholars, and MIT Press.
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Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies,
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The blog is read by many of the same scholars he sees at academic conferences, and also attracts readers from the video-game industry and teenagers who are hard-core video-game players.
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200,000 visitors per month,
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tap the wisdom of his crowd
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blog might not read the whole manuscript,
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Each day he will post a new chunk of his draft to the blog, and readers will be invited to comment. That should open the floodgates of input, possibly generating thousands of responses by the time all 300-plus pages of the book are posted. "My plan is to respond to everything that seems substantial," says the author.
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"I am dead certain it will make the book better," he says.
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Mr. Sery isn't so sure. "I don't know how this general peer review is going to help," the editor says, except maybe to catch small errors that have slipped through the cracks. Traditional peer review involves carefully chosen experts in the same subject area, who can point to big-picture issues as well as nitpick details. He bets that the blog reviews might merely spark flame wars or other unhelpful arguments about minor points. "I'm curious to see what kind of comments we get back," he says.
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What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers?
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could post sections of his book on Grand Text Auto and allow readers, using CommentPress, to add critiques right in the margins
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"The reputation of MIT Press, or any good academic press, is based on a peer-review model."
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the experiment will provide a side-by-side comparison of reviewing—old school versus new blog
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maybe to catch small errors that have slipped through the cracks.
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"If, God help you, you're writing about current religious or political issues, you're going to get a lot of people with agendas who aren't interested in having a rational discussion. Some of them are just psychos."
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xpressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies,
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both software design and traditional media-studies methods in the study of video games.
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folks at the Institute for the Future of the Book, who developed CommentPress, a tool for adding digital margin notes to blogs (The Chronicle, September 28, 2007).
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CommentPress, to add critiques right in the margins
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run by the University of Southern California but based in Brooklyn
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sisted on running the manuscript through the traditional peer-review process as well. "We are a peer-review press—we're always going to want to have an honest peer review," says Mr. Sery, senior editor for new media and game studies. "The reputation of MIT Press, or any good academic press, is based on a peer-review model."
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sorting through all those comments will take over his life,
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log-based review to be more helpful than the traditional peer review
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ariety of voices
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Traditional peer review involves carefully chosen experts in the same subject area, who can point to big-picture issues as well as nitpick details. He bets that the blog reviews might merely spark flame wars or other unhelpful arguments about minor points. "I'm curious to see what kind of comments we get back," he says.
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oing to get a lot of people with agendas who aren't interested in having a rational discussion. Some of them are just psychos."
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eally allows for the expression of their ideas
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23 Jan 08
Viv Wallerexperiment of putting portions of an academic text on a popular gaming blog for comments by bloggers as well as peer review
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22 Jan 08
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