by Naomi Smith, Clare Southerton, and Aleesha Rodriguez
Published: Oct 10, 2023
The online experience wasn't always one of Big Tech and "internet trash." What aspects of contemporary digital platforms preserve creativity and community and which need reformed?
We're married to our terms and conditions agreements. What if we leaned into the inherent decentralized and community-lead networks the internet provides?
The current relationship between publishers and consumers suffers from a lack of trust. Could a Web3 solution help build trust while also giving consumers agency over their own data and publishers a more sustainable revenue stream?
By understanding how Chinese authors want to be communicated with, an integrated and automated publisher platform was developed to improve communication delivery and increase inclusivity.
Reproducibility in experimental methods, questions of intellectual property, and bias in publications continue to plague scientific researchers. Could tokenizing research products provide a solution to these problems?
Effective data stewardship requires community and sovereignty, especially when the data is about the environment and all its dynamic connections to our lives. How can we use digital infrastructure with sustainability in mind?
With the boom of self-publishing and blog content, there are nearly infinite stories and personal information to be found on the web. How should we use these data ethically in a research context?
If the goal of AI is to create the truest situational understandings for the benefit of ALL beings in the long-term, then how might AI influence the way(s) we more effectively communicate?
This powerful website, consistently one of the world’s most popular sites, shapes knowledge creation as well as reflects the state of what we know. How great that we can control it!
DOCS is a necessary addition to the current landscape because much of the current activity either sits within or fails to challenge neoliberal values that apply across the entire ecology of teaching and learning, research and publishing.