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Puppetmasters — Who Is Pulling the Strings in the New Information Economy?

Information manipulation is not new, yet everything is different. How do governments, preprints, algorithms, and our own responsibilities intersect? Where does peer review come in now?

Guest Post — Academics and Copyright Ownership: Ignorant, Confused or Misled?

Elizabeth Gadd takes a look at the contradictions between scholarly culture and copyright culture, and the cognitive dissonance created.

Book Review — “World Without Mind,” by Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer’s new book is a bracing account of the current information economy, the monopolies and motivations at its heart, and the weakening of democratized knowledge.

“Technology is Not Neutral” — How Online Companies Manipulate Billions of Minds

A former Google employee explains the tricks that online companies use to manipulate users and suggests there’s a better way.

Guest Post — Does ResearchGate Emerge Unscathed, or Even Strengthened?

Librarian Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe offers thoughts on where the ongoing clash between scholarly publishers and ResearchGate may end up.

Building Healthy Online Communities — An Interview with Rachel Happe

Community management has become a key part of social media and online publishing, whether we realize it or not. In this interview, an expert in the fields shares some views of how organizations can benefit from a more singular focus.

The Facebooking of Scholarly Research

The search tools and social networks we increasingly rely on are all dependent on advertising-based business models. What does this mean for scholarly communication?

About Face — Scholarly Publishing and Social Media Regulation

A possible consequence of moves to more tightly regulate social media companies may be they start looking for new investments. And they already have some in scholarly publishing.

Technology as the New Tobacco

Comedian Bill Maher draws a disturbing parallel between social media and cigarettes.

The End of Summer and Musings on Nostalgia in an Age of Abundance

We’re taking the last week of summer off. To hold you over, a brief book review, some rare concert footage and some musings on memory and storytelling.

Revisiting: Why Technology Will Not Get Cheaper

Revisiting Kent Anderson’s 2016 post on the ever-increasing costs of digital publishing.

Trouble at Hand — How Mobile Devices Perpetuate Weak Business Models

The rise of mobile is cementing business model expectations and driving new monopolies, but the ethics, incentives, and consequences of these models need to be considered.

The Trance of Dysfunction — Why Trolls Have Come to Dominate Discourse

Trolls dominate for many reasons — economics, technology, our predilection for sordid entertainment. But they’ve chilled online discourse and damaged civil exchanges, even making some publishers reluctant to take full advantage of the potential of the Internet. Are we ready for v2.0 of commenting?

Platform Diving — Top Journals, UX, and the Lure of Harmonization

A review of top journals in 18 fields show they are on a variety of platforms, suggesting cognitive burden for users which may be driving them to aggregated options with unified user experiences.

Detours and Diversions — Do Open Access Publishers Face New Barriers?

Open access (OA) publishing seeks to eliminate paywalls for users. It has largely succeeded, but new diversions and distractions built into the commercial Internet may create new barriers that will be harder to deal with.

SSP Announces Release of Individual Results for the Insights Benchmarking Compensation & Benefits Study

SSP Virtual 5K Run, Walk, and Roll Returns for Fourth-Year