{"id":5143,"date":"2015-07-22T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2015-07-19T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T16:20:47","slug":"on-publication-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/07\/22\/on-publication-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"On Publication in Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/culturedigitally.org\/2015\/06\/running-towards-publication-then-walking-away\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Book_Collage-200x200.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/culturedigitally.org\/2015\/06\/running-towards-publication-then-walking-away\/\">Running Towards Publication, Then Walking Away \u2013 Culture Digitally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article caught my eye for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, I&#8217;m just finishing a <a href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/MagicBullet\/doku.php?id=book:book-toc\">book <\/a>and so I&#8217;m thinking about this a fair bit, but for another, I do not have a permanent position at any institution, and haven&#8217;t had one for some years. This means I am spared the usual annual reporting that most salaried academics must endure every year (or in some cases two).<\/p>\n<p>These days, I mostly publish things that I think people might be interested in learning about &#8211; usually based on feedback. And, really, publishing is supposed to be about sharing knowledge, not feathering caps.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the risk of sounding too obvious, something is clearly out of joint when the most important things a scholar writes, the things that might influence conversations, get cited, and get taught, appear in venues that are automatically discounted by backward-thinking tenure committees that still focus on journals and books as the only or most important publication outlets. &#8211; See more at: http:\/\/culturedigitally.org\/2015\/06\/running-towards-publication-then-walking-away\/#sthash.G4ouVlUS.dpuf<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-5143'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5143);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5143);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(5143);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Running Towards Publication, Then Walking Away \u2013 Culture Digitally. This article caught my eye for a number of reasons. For one thing, I&#8217;m just finishing a book and so I&#8217;m thinking about this a fair bit, but for another, I &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/07\/22\/on-publication-in-academia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,360,369,24],"tags":[389,15,393],"class_list":["post-5143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-book","category-higher-education","category-teaching-learning","tag-educational-technology","tag-higher-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1kX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6347,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2016\/10\/10\/new-book-choosing-and-using-digital-games-in-the-classroom-a-practical-guide\/","url_meta":{"origin":5143,"position":0},"title":"New Book: Choosing and Using Digital Games in the Classroom: A Practical Guide","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I am thrilled to announce that my book is now available. 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