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The Knowledge Equity Lab based at
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seeks to challenge forms of exclusion within the highly unequal structure of knowledge production and exchange.
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Christie Hurrell
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A great episode to close out a thought provoking season. Will be using Gilliard's concepts in my own thinking. Wondering whether the term "prestige surveillance" makes more sense in publishing...
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What's the difference between an ankle monitor and a FitBit? Chris Gilliard discusses the various problems that surveillance technology and AI pose for society and particularly higher education. Listen to our final podcast episode of the season: knowledgeequitylab.ca/podcast/s3-ep-
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UC San Diego Library Scholarly Communication
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This was such a great episode I'm going to listen again. Talks abt student surveillance & LMS, touches on RIMs. Love to hear more on RIMs.
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What's the difference between an ankle monitor and a FitBit? Chris Gilliard discusses the various problems that surveillance technology and AI pose for society and particularly higher education. Listen to our final podcast episode of the season: knowledgeequitylab.ca/podcast/s3-ep-
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Jo at Access 2 Perspectives
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Highly insightful on the benefits and threats of using AI during the scholarly publishing workflow. thanks,
@KnowEquityLab
for yet another inconvenient perception... #scholarlypublishing #ArtificialIntelligence #podcast #academicfreedom
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Artificial Intelligence is already being used in peer review and editorial decision making. 3 co-editors of an Elsevier-published journal are sounding the alarm on the threat AI poses to equity and academic freedom. Listen to our latest podcast episode: knowledgeequitylab.ca/podcast/s3-ep-
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Nick Shockey
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The use of AI in peer review and editorial decision making is already here. Its deployment is opaque and prioritizes the interests of vendors—not authors. 3 co-editors of an Elsevier-published journal are sounding the alarm on the threat this poses to equity & academic freedom.
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SPARC
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The deployment of automated decision-making algorithms within the academic publication process poses serious concerns regarding equity & academic freedom. Learn more about these concerns on the newest episode of Unsettling Knowledge Inequities out today: knowledgeequitylab.ca/podcast/s3-ep-
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Julia Gruson-Wood (she/her)
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Check out this digital story re: the incredible work the
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is doing to unsettle the western "monoculture of knowledge" and create new digital infrastructure and tools for valuing and sharing knowledge
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The Knowledge Equity Lab is an inclusive, trans-disciplinary space that seeks to challenge multiple forms of exclusion within the highly unequal structure of...
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@alexh@fediscience.org Holcombe
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A warning for universities and a call to action by a long-time Elsevier analyst. As a result of publishers like Elsevier (RELX) getting into analytics, they are then motivated to deliver analytics that steer researchers towards their journals.🧵👇
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Power in the academic publishing market has consolidated into the hands of a few companies. In episode 3, we're joined by Claudio Aspesi, a leading market analyst, to explore the high cost of knowledge monopoly. Listen and join the conversation: knowledgeequitylab.ca/podcast/s3-ep3/
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SPARC
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Episode 3 of this season of the Unsettling Knowledge Inequities Podcast is out today! Building on some of the themes from our episode with
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Power in the academic publishing market has consolidated into the hands of a few companies. In episode 3, we're joined by Claudio Aspesi, a leading market analyst, to explore the high cost of knowledge monopoly. Listen and join the conversation: knowledgeequitylab.ca/podcast/s3-ep3/
Image with a blue background and a speech bubble with a quote from Claudio Aspesi that reads, "" There is no question that in the near term all of these companies can mobilize vast amounts of data, vast amounts of money to acquire data, to acquire smaller companies ... and all of that leads to the possibility that this business will simply evolve as a very narrow oligopoly or quasi monopoly, controlled by one or two players at the most. "
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