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Notes on the keshizhe.net submission area (and adding a “replies visible only to the original poster” feature)

Site Matters2011.10.19
Notes on the keshizhe.net submission area (and adding a “replies visible only to the original poster” feature)
Why design a way of posting submitted papers for peer review like this? My original intention was to strengthen communication within the forum, because the purpose of our forum is exchange first and scholarship second; its primary significance is to enhance communication among students in the history of science, technology, and philosophy in the Beijing area. And if our communication is limited to those dozen or so session presentations on the final day, that is quite limited. I hope that academic exchange can already begin during the review process. Whether or not a submission is ultimately accepted as a session presentation, the student who submits it can still receive comments…
scholarship website conference review forum
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2011年10月19日
Is the University a Public Sphere? — Further Thoughts on Publicly Posting Grades and Publicly Critiquing Assignments

History of Science & Scholarship2011.10.10
Is the University a Public Sphere? — Further Thoughts on Publicly Posting Grades and Publicly Critiquing Assignments
It’s once again time for grading in the history of science survey course. This course has always had the tradition of publishing grades, and this time should be no exception. Of course, I seem to be getting softer and softer lately; the harsh roasting of bad assignments may more likely be shifted into private messages rather than being publicly posted under real names. But the excellent students still absolutely deserve public praise. Last year I explained: Why post the grades? Now that I’ve recently finished reading Arendt, it may be worth giving that earlier account a further interpretation. It is said that American universities place enormous emphasis on “privacy”; information…
scholarship freedom public sphere university
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2011年10月10日
On “Knowledge Changes One’s Destiny”

Culture & Public Commentary2011.08.08
On “Knowledge Changes One’s Destiny”
Recently I saw an article in Southern Weekend, “Do Poor Children Have No Spring? — Why Are Students from Humble Families Increasingly Farther Away from First-Rate Universities?” In the past few days, while eating with my family and relatives, this kind of topic has also come up often. Today someone mentioned that Fudan University may completely abolish admissions through straight Gaokao scores next year—that is, you would have to get in through independent admissions or other such routes. Such a move will of course further increase the difficulty for students from impoverished regions to enter top universities. Just the round-trip transportation and lodging costs for making a special trip to…
culture China scholarship education
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2011年8月8日
The Internet Needs Scholarship; Scholarship Needs the Internet

Site Matters2011.07.22
The Internet Needs Scholarship; Scholarship Needs the Internet
The previous article mentioned that scholarship should actively confront the web; on the other hand, the web also needs scholarship. Through scholars’ active intervention in network media, on the one hand the possibilities for the development of scholarship will be expanded; on the other hand, distinctive elements will also be brought into the development of network technology. In an even earlier essay on the web, I cited Newell Castells’s historical review—“Internet culture” contains four layers: a technical elite culture that pursues knowledge and esteems excellence; a hacker culture that yearns for “freedom” and play; “virtual communists” who advocate sharing and practicality; and entrepreneurs in search of business opportunities. Of course,…
China technology scholarship value
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2011年7月22日
Why Create Such a Forum?

Site Matters2011.07.18
Why Create Such a Forum?
This newly launched “Forum for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology” is part of the “Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,” which will be held this coming November. This graduate forum was founded last year; Tsinghua took charge of it last year, and this year it is our turn. So the heavy responsibility of overall coordination has landed on my shoulders. As a shut-in, I have never been good at organizing affairs, nor am I good at socializing. Of course, under Professor Wu, people who are particularly good at organizing social activities have always been rather scarce, so I could only…
scholarship media internet website
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2011年7月18日
Call for Papers for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History of Science and Philosophy

Life & Notes2011.07.17
Call for Papers for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History of Science and Philosophy
Call for Papers for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology In order to promote scholarship, foster exchanges among young scholars in the field of dialectics of nature at universities across the Beijing area, and create more opportunities for understanding and communication between senior and junior scholars, the Institute for Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, together with the Center for Studies of Science and Society at Peking University and other institutions, jointly initiated and organized last year the Graduate Academic Forum of Beijing’s philosophy of science and technology circles. The inaugural forum was successfully held…
everyday life history of science scholarship philosophy of science
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2011年7月17日
I Don’t Object to the “Jeanswest Building”

Culture & Public Commentary2011.05.28
I Don’t Object to the “Jeanswest Building”
Recently the “Zhenvis Building” next door has been the talk of the town, and there has been quite a lot of opposition and ridicule, but I basically don’t have much of a negative reaction. Peking University’s No. 3 Teaching Building was long ago renamed “Liu Qing Building,” but we still call it “Third Teaching Building,” and the university’s course schedules and notices still call it Third Teaching Building as well; at most, there’s just one more nameplate hanging on the wall. Tsinghua’s Zhenvis Building can also just continue to be called the Fourth Teaching Building, and it won’t interfere with everyday teaching and life. The only issue is that some…
China scholarship commentary economy
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2011年5月28日
SCI and Academic Fairness

Culture & Public Commentary2011.04.21
SCI and Academic Fairness
Last year China’s number of SCI papers surged to second place in the world; EI papers had long since already been number one. This is certainly nothing to be proud of. Never mind the average quality of the papers: even if all these papers were genuine and substantive, it still would not be something worth celebrating. In the first place, scientific papers published in English are “making contributions to all humankind (especially Americans),” and of all parties they benefit, China itself benefits the least. Since China’s science policy and environment have always devoted most of their energy to these original activities, they have never much cared about secondary development based…
China science scholarship commentary
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2011年4月21日
Add Annotations to Any Paragraph: Enable the Feedback by Paragraph Plugin

Site Matters2011.02.20
Add Annotations to Any Paragraph: Enable the Feedback by Paragraph Plugin
First I happened to see a post in the Chinese WordPress forum mentioning a feature of Yeeyan (this site seems pretty good): marginal annotations. You can add notes to every paragraph in an article, and registered members can very conveniently discuss specific paragraphs. For a translation community like this, such a feature is simply a brilliant design. I was instantly drawn to this feature. I was trying to build an academic blog for the Web 2.0 era, and the most basic effect this kind of academic model hopes to achieve is: “infinite margins” — the blank space at the side of the page, or rather the space for communication, will…
scholarship blog Web3 internet
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2011年2月20日
Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media

AI & the Future of Technology2011.02.02
Writing in the Internet Age—A Brief Discussion of the Intentional Structure of Electronic Media
The new blog had been tinkered with for so long that it has finally come to a temporary rest, and I should also write something more serious to explain myself. But this so-called serious writing is not yet that paper I have kept putting off; I’ll deal with that paper properly after the New Year. For now, following the context of tidying up the blog, let me talk about some thoughts on the “network age.” The last class of Wu’s seminar last semester happened to touch on communication in the network age, and I happened to pick up this thread and speak from there. The issue of communication in the…
culture technology scholarship media
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2011年2月2日