From: "Jonathan Sterne, Dr." <jonathan.sterne@mcgill.ca>
Date: June 7, 2011 7:12:26 PM GMT-04:00
To: Ted Striphas <striphas@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: special issue

Hi Ted,

Let's say June 20th, though that'll lose you at least a week of time to revise based on comments.

Best,
--J

On 2011-06-01, at 4:12 PM, Ted Striphas wrote:

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for checking in.  I'm a definitely-maybe on this, although surely on the late side.  What's your firm deadline?

--t

On May 31, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Jonathan Sterne, Dr. wrote:

Hi Ted,

I'm writing with the standard "the deadline is coming and I'd really love to have something from you."  Short is fine, and so is a few days late.  I still like the essay idea if you like the idea of writing it.

Best,
--J

On 2011-04-26, at 5:42 PM, Ted Striphas wrote:

Hi Jonathan,

I know this will be peer-reviewed material, but do you think something polemical would be okay? I'm thinking about posing (and developing) the question, what if academics were paid for our journal articles?  What do you think?

Sorry, by the way, for being out of touch about  this for awhile.  Phaedra and I were being courted by Northeastern, and so we spent the last couple of weeks talking to them, interviewing, running the gamut of offers and counter-offers, etc. In the end, we decided to remain at IU.  Didn't want you to think I was blowing you off.

Wish I were in sunny Palo Alto right about now. I swear --  sometimes it really does seem like the center of the universe.

Take Care & All the Best,

--t

On Apr 26, 2011, at 3:57 PM, "Jonathan Sterne, Dr." <jonathan.sterne@mcgill.ca
wrote:

Hi Ted,

That all depends on how long you need to take to actually write the thing.  We could say May 15th for an abstract if you're planning a 1000-1500 word essay.  Or whatever works for you!

Best,
--J

On 2011-04-26, at 12:27 PM, Ted Striphas wrote:

Hi Jonathan,

Still thinking, but inclined to do this.  By when do you need something more concrete from me?

--t

On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Jonathan Sterne, Dr. wrote:

Hi Ted,

Good to hear from you.  Congrats on tenure and promotion, btw.

As to what you'd say, I was thinking more stuff along the lines of acknowledged goods, except possibly more programmatic.  Should the field strive to move its journals to a more open-access model? Should we adopt some kind of best practices policy so that junior academics don't have to sign away their rights just to get published?  There also the crisis of the publishing industry and the decreasing legitimacy of peer review (though like democracy, it may be a terrible system and the best available).  My hope for the special section is that it will be used to start arguments about various normative things that people in the field have been letting slide, and publication is one of those things.

Marinate on it and see if anything comes to you.  Of course, you're probably marinating in other things at the moment.

Please give my best to Phaedra as well.  She'll be hearing from me on another front very soon.

Best,
--J

On 2011-04-06, at 6:35 PM, Ted Striphas wrote:

Hi Jonthan,

Great hearing from you.  I feel like I've been following you and your life via Super Bon, but I realize now that it's been ages since
we last corresponded.  Anyway, I'm really interested in participating but I'm not sure of exactly what to write beyond what I've already written in, say, "Acknowledged Goods" and elsewhere. Is there a specific topic you'd like to see addressed in the issue vis-a-vis academic publishing or IP?  A little more prompting might help spur me to action, as my head hasn't exactly been exactly there for the last few months.  I guess what I'm saying is, I really want to participate, but I need a bit more a push to get me started.

Thanks for thinking of me.  Take care & best to Carrie.

--t

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