Comments on: “All the words of wisdom sound the same” #opened16

By: Christina Hendricks

Christina Hendricks — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 07:46:49 +0000

Quite rite. One of the most thought-provoking sets of arguments i’ve seen/heard on citation scores, by @dkernohan: followersoftheapocalyp.se/all-the-words-… twitter.com/martin_eve/sta…

By: Frances Bell

Frances Bell — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:23:49 +0000

How could I have missed this critique of citation indices? followersoftheapocalyp.se/all-the-words-… - Hey @dkernohan where's the follow button?

By: Frances Bell

Frances Bell — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:51:06 +0000

I loved this Dave and would really love to have a conversation with you sometime about citation as a sociocultural practice. In 2009/10 when I was still vaguely playing the academic game, I wrote 2 academic papers about CCK08. Funnily enough, I was motivated to write them in the first place by observing during CCK08 (and I wasn’t the only one) about the common theme of networks of humans and non-humans in Actor-Network Theory and in Connectivism but lack of connection between the two ‘theories’. I have observed something similar more recently in research and reflection on Openness and Education but that’s another story.
I remember wondering if choosing the ‘popular’ topic of connectivism would have an impact on my citation ‘scores’ – and I hasten to add that I am barely above sea level in any ranking of scholars/academics. The answer is yes ( the paper published in IRRODL is my most cited paper according to Google Scholar) but so what? Watching the citations grow, and checking out wherever I could how the work was cited (often trivially or inaccurately), I have come to the conclusion that these metrics are almost meaningless, except when read in context and then they tell us more about power relations than anything else. And that’s why we need a feminist perspective IMHO.
P.S. IRRODL is now ISI ranked – Terry Anderson gives the pragmatic view here http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1052/1879 )

By: Linda Castañeda

Linda Castañeda — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:44:55 +0000

“All the words of wisdom sound the same” #opened16 – FOLLOWERS OF THE APOCALYPSE shar.es/18tX3I by @dkernohan #muyrecomendable

By: (((TG)))

(((TG))) — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 16:27:11 +0000

@lesliekwchan you might (already know of or) be interested in @dkernohan followersoftheapocalyp.se/all-the-words-… #opencon16TO

By: Tannis Morgan

Tannis Morgan — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 02:01:23 +0000

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Kate Bowles — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 21:47:30 +0000

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Mariana Funes — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 19:46:43 +0000

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By: Simon Ensor

Simon Ensor — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 17:07:54 +0000

@telliowkuwp "All the words of wisdom sound the same” #opened16 @dkernohan followersoftheapocalyp.se/all-the-words-…