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Cultural hegemony and disruption

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How long will it be before these media disrupt the hegemony the large publishing houses such as Elsevier, Springer and Wiley currently impose upon the academic world? One of the most remarkable series of events to date this century has been the political activism that has occurred as a result of widespread social media use.

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The only other media attending the event would be a national crew from ABC.” The stories out of Facebook just keep getting worse. I mean, I’m just glad that no one from Facebook is involved in education, ed-tech, ed reform, or education journalism. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier.

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White supremacist Richard Spencer will speak at the University of Florida , which says it will spend $500,000 on security for the event. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia.”

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” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” It’s just a bunch of video-taped lectures for the (offline) “ Startup School ” event that the startup incubator program runs at Stanford (which is really just a series of short talks by entrepreneurs and founders).

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” Via Knox News : “ White nationalist talk at UT draws about 45 and 250 protesters for peaceful event.” blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.” ” Via Politico : “ Facebook ’s next project: American inequality.” ” Diaper fiasco.