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Open or shut?

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Increasing numbers of high profile academics (such as danah boyd and Martin Weller for example) are turning their backs on traditional methods of research dissemination, publishing their work exclusively on free-to-read open access platforms or on their blogs. They are the open scholars. Academics are beginning to stand up and speak out.

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Cultural hegemony and disruption

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Whilst Gramsci used hegemony to refer specifically to the inculcation of political doctrine into society, I believe the theory can be applied in a much wider sense, and that we are witnessing a challenge to the dominant societal discourses through disruptive technology. How does social media disrupt cultural hegemony?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” Via the EFF : “Stupid Patent of the Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review.” million total.