Peer reviewed, or just blogged?
A University of California, San Diego communications professor is starting an unusual experiment today (Jan 22): He's testing whether a large online community of academic bloggers are better at peer review than a few hand-picked experts. To compare the two review methods, Noah Wardrip-Fruin is posting excerpts from his new book about video games onto the linkurl:blog;https://grandtextauto.org/ Grand Text Auto, run by himself and five colleagues. He linkurl:told;https://chronicle.com/free/2008
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Alison McCook was the deputy editor at The Scientist from 2005 to 2010.
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