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Full access and review: applying socio-technical practice to academia

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Social computing application innovations develop faster than academics theories about them. While online computing changes radically every few years, a paper can take 3-5 years to reach an audience, often addressing issues relevant a decade ago and increasing the gap between the worlds of theory and practice. Using social computing technologies helps narrow this gap by applying socio-technical principles to an open knowledge exchange system (KES). We propose an open electronic KES that not only increases dissemination (by publishing all) but also increases discrimination (by rating all). This would go beyond current repositories like CoRR by providing an electronic portal that not only disseminates but also reviews computing research. It would address reviewer bottleneck problems by involving more people in more ways, facilitating an online research community where theorists, analysts and practitioners can contribute, converse and create knowledge in a vibrant knowledge commons.

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    SIGITE '08: Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education
    October 2008
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    ISBN:9781605583297
    DOI:10.1145/1414558
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