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Cultural hegemony and disruption

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Wikipedia is popular because it can be accessed from anywhere using a web enabled mobile phone. 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? And when all factors are analysed, this should be no surprise.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” The Wall Street Journal predicts “The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice.”

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monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. Elsevier has acquired bepress. As The Scholarly Kitchen’s Roger Schonfeld writes, “Elsevier is now a major if not the foremost single player in the institutional repository landscape. ” ACT has invested $10.5

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.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Communications Experts Criticize Elsevier - Florida Pilot.” Via The New York Times : “Dreams Stall as CUNY , New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters.” Via Techcrunch : “Nearly 1 in 4 people abandon mobile apps after only one use.” Sign up here.)