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Learned inquiry and the Net: the role of peer review, peer commentary and copyright*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stevan Harnad
Stevan Harnad*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England
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[email protected] http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/∼harnad/
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I should begin by defining some of the metaphors I use in this paper. By the ‘Gutenberg Galaxy’ I mean the world of print on paper. Thus the ‘PostGutenberg Galaxy’ is its successor, the virtual world of bytes on tape, disk and screen — and especially dispersal in the fibreoptic cables enmeshing the globe and transmitting them everywhere at the speed of light. I also use the term ‘Skywriting,’ for the dissemination of the written word in the PostGutenberg Galaxy is very much like writing it all up in the sky, for everyone to see and to append their own scribblings onto, rather like the serial graffiti in public toilets, except on a galactic scale. Or perhaps a global Hyde Park, with the orations and cat-calls all delivered graphically rather than orally.

Type
Special review section: Electronic archaeology
Information
Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997 , pp. 1042 - 1048
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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Footnotes

This paper has been adapted from Professor Harnad's Snider Professorship Keynote Address given at the ‘Learned Inquiry and the Net: Beyond Print’ Symposium on Electronic Publishing and New Models of Scholarly Communication, Center for Instructional Technology, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario, September 1997.

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