Lost between the 1s and 0s
What impact does internet research have on scholarship?
"The forced browsing of print archives may have stretched scientists and scholars to anchor findings deeply into past and present scholarship. Searching online is more efficient ... but this may accelerate consensus and narrow the range of findings and ideas built upon."
If choosing online research limits the periodicals and journals that are available for reference, I can see his point. Not to mention that thumbing through an actual manuscript just feels more scholarly . . . During some of my research papers, I used online extracts from periodicals, especially if the extract was detailed enough, I would hardly bother with fetching the actual periodical for the full article. But I guess that depended on how stoked I was about the topic or paper or how pressed I was for time.
So, by college I had learned to bend a little, far from those days in High School when I took every book home every night and studied whether there was homework or not. When I made elaborate notes in my texts and took pride in Acing an open book test on memory alone. College relaxed my perfectionism when it became a relief to get my first B in a class and lift the heavy responsibility of maintaining another 4.0 gpa for the semester. Once I was relaxed, I could start to study for the sake of the content, and not just the grade. What fun years those were too.
Still, I spent the majority of my free time at college squeezing reading and assignments in between classes where other spent more time socializing, so I missed out on a few things, but I carried through with a 3.7 gpa. while working 40+ hours a week.
It was fun then! And I would laugh about how easy it would be when college was done and all I had to worry about was working the 40+ hour work week. Now fast forward 10 years and the 40+ hour work week bores you to death or is full of Dilbert-Style aphorisms.
Settle and grow old . . . what I need to do is start taking classes again.
"The forced browsing of print archives may have stretched scientists and scholars to anchor findings deeply into past and present scholarship. Searching online is more efficient ... but this may accelerate consensus and narrow the range of findings and ideas built upon."
If choosing online research limits the periodicals and journals that are available for reference, I can see his point. Not to mention that thumbing through an actual manuscript just feels more scholarly . . . During some of my research papers, I used online extracts from periodicals, especially if the extract was detailed enough, I would hardly bother with fetching the actual periodical for the full article. But I guess that depended on how stoked I was about the topic or paper or how pressed I was for time.
So, by college I had learned to bend a little, far from those days in High School when I took every book home every night and studied whether there was homework or not. When I made elaborate notes in my texts and took pride in Acing an open book test on memory alone. College relaxed my perfectionism when it became a relief to get my first B in a class and lift the heavy responsibility of maintaining another 4.0 gpa for the semester. Once I was relaxed, I could start to study for the sake of the content, and not just the grade. What fun years those were too.
Still, I spent the majority of my free time at college squeezing reading and assignments in between classes where other spent more time socializing, so I missed out on a few things, but I carried through with a 3.7 gpa. while working 40+ hours a week.
It was fun then! And I would laugh about how easy it would be when college was done and all I had to worry about was working the 40+ hour work week. Now fast forward 10 years and the 40+ hour work week bores you to death or is full of Dilbert-Style aphorisms.
Settle and grow old . . . what I need to do is start taking classes again.