tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post6369394702800915171..comments2023-08-17T10:18:24.628-04:00Comments on Multilitteratus Incognitus: Digital Scholarship - does it quack like a duck?Apostolos K. ("AK")http://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post-16898677487827442172011-02-10T16:01:05.523-05:002011-02-10T16:01:05.523-05:00Great thoughts Ben!
When I was writing the post, ...Great thoughts Ben!<br /><br />When I was writing the post, I didn't really consider Hilton (and the like) as scholars simply because, as you wrote, they base their views on faulty facts and come up with illogical conclusions. <br /><br />Reading your response to my post, I started thinking out loud and what came out of my mouth was "I guess scholarship it depends on the eye of the beholder..." because there is nothing that says that propaganda and demagoguery can't be pitched to (or marketed?) people as scholarship.<br /><br />I guess the moral is buyer beware and don't take any "scholarship" on its face value. At minimum you end up exposing false-scholarship, and at most you end up extending the bounds of human knowledge and understanding.<br /><br />AKApostolos K. ("AK")https://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post-71950106711783447452011-02-10T15:12:28.975-05:002011-02-10T15:12:28.975-05:00Interesting thoughts, AK. In the end, it seems to ...Interesting thoughts, AK. In the end, it seems to me that you do end up including Hilton and Palin in your definition of scholars. Not good scholars, but then, there are plenty of bad carpenters in the world too. <br /><br />My thought is that scholarship has the objective of increasing knowledge in the world. Scholarship takes facts (existing knowledge that can be verified) and adds conclusions (inductive or deductive) thus helping the reader to understand the world better. <br /><br />Such a definition encompasses rigorous academic writing, journalism, and the diary of my teenage sister. All attempt to increase knowledge and understanding. Some do so better than others.<br /><br />A good scholar will use a strong foundation of facts, and build a robust and logical conclusion, producing scholarship that is "visually pleasing and won't break." The inclusive, open and rapidly growing world of digital scholarship also gives us the scholars such as Hilton, building knowledge based on faulty facts with illogical conclusions. <br /><br />I agree with you that the most important thing is that, thanks to our digital environment, all this scholarship can be "measured, scrutinized, commented on, expanded and sometimes in the end proven wrong!"Apostolos K. ("AK")https://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.com