The Public Face of Scholarship

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The Public Face of Scholarship

• Larry E. Ribstein
• www.ideoblog.org

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The Web of scholarship

• Self-expression
• Blogigles
• Self-promotion
• Publicly Engaged Academic Posts
• Expertise
• Reputational bonding
• Discipline
• PEAPs vs. public intellectuals

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The world of professional journalism

• Demand based
• Entertainment
• Bayesian updating
• Reader biases
• Supply based journalist biases
• Self-selection
• Guild
• Professional screening
• Owner biases

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Now playing. . .

• Executive compensation
• SOX
• Mutual fund regulation
• Criminalizing agency costs

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PEAPs affect. . .

• Demand
• Some people do want information
• Reader expectations through Bayesian updating
• Serving micro-biases
• Supply
• PEAPer demographics
• No institutional framework or screening
• Serving a different market

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Possible futures

• Bundling insulates professionals
• Hybrids
• The professional blog
• The amateur superblog
• Market segmentation
• Professionals ? reporting
• PEAPs ? specialized expertise
• PEAPs effect on scholarship
• The reincarnation of the public intellectual?