Was the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto as effective as possible?

Aaron Swartz was far more than your average online blogger rattling on about the Establishment undermining the liberties of the Internet. Swartz was one of the greatest hacktivists to ever live, and a true crusader for…

What Does it Mean to be a Scholar?

There is no doubt that the internet offers an enormous amount of information, but is that information available to everyone with a computer? The short answer is no.

The Knowledge Barrier

Knowledge is what keeps the human race moving forward, it leads to creation, innovation and development. Before modernity, ideas expanded by trade or interaction and they helped societies build civilizations. Powerful knowledge from Darwin, Confucius, Simone de Beauvoir or Thoreau, which…

The Ambiguity of Scholarly Dissemination

A Sea of Knowledge

Don’t Panic it’s Wikipedia

Wikipedia as a source of casual knowledge may be helpful, but when it comes down to the facts and nitty-gritty details there are major problems and your professors are right.

So you’d think that Wikipedia is curated and created on a gigantic collective…

More than a Guy Fawkes Mask: Reflections on The Internet’s Own Boy

Aaron Swartz was neither the basement-dwelling “nerd” (a term lawmakers would associate with him and his work) nor the layman’s Internet crusader behind a Guy Fawkes mask avatar. Nay, Swartz was one of the most…

The Inner-workings of Wikipedia

I think I can speak for a great deal of students of all grade levels when I say that the only thing we remember hearing from our teachers more than “when you get to college, you’ll have twice as much homework” is that you can’t use Wikipedia for projects. “Anyone can edit…

Facebook and Democracy in 2016

The media — the one thing that both sides in the 2016 Presidential Race criticized and continue to alienate. The love affair that society used to have with instant, 24/7 coverage and never ending salacious stories seems to be ending.