Re: Publishers and ebooks

From: Cindy Harper <charper_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:43:39 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, john g marr <jmarr_at_unm.edu> wrote:

> ...
>
>> Crowd-sourcing may be a part of the solution, but is subject to incredible
>> manipulation.
>>
>
>  Crowds using Critical Thinking (+ study of "Fallacy" and "Cognitive Bias")
> as a selection tool would be incredibly immune to manipulation.
>


I know I've been told that "authority is dead", but I think it's a
legitimate research question whether crowds limited to "academic" members
would differ in book/page rankings from unlimited crowds.  How do you ensure
the crowd is using Critical Thinking?


Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
Colgate University Libraries
charper_at_colgate.edu
315-228-7363
Received on Tue May 10 2011 - 13:44:18 EDT