Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Apr 20, 2009, 07:08 AM
At the panel on Participatory Learning at the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition Showcase, Mimi Ito talked about the way peers will beat up on one another, policing one another's behavior, coming up with rigid hierarchies of what counts and doesn't and then publicly humiliating and abusing those deemed, by the narrowest of standards, to be dweebs, dorks, nerds, or other outcasts, a practice now made even more public and vicious by the Internet.  We knew she must be talking about the horrors of cyberbullying . . . but then she delivered the punchline:   "I'm talking about academic peer review," she deadpanned.

Submitted by jonathan.tarr on Feb 04, 2008, 05:03 PM
Read on for an excerpt from a recent The Chronicle of Higher Education article on taking the peer review process to blogs, featuring Professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin from UC-San Diego.