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The Ivory Firewall: A Meditation on the Digital Divide in Academ. To say that the digital revolution has utterly changed access to knowledge would be the understatement of the millennium.
Thanks to online magazines, encyclopedias, and books, it is now possible to spend your entire waking life (such as it is) cramming for that appearance on Jeopardy. But the Internet has done more than revolutionize the ownership of knowledge by putting entire libraries’ worth of useless information at everyone’s fingertips: For scholars, it has made access to online resources such as JSTOR (Journal STORage), a repository of digitized articles from academic journals, absolutely indispensable. These sources are qualitatively different from what the masses get to read: Compared to the rich, peer-reviewed, and extensively-researched and -documented foie gras of the academic world, what comes up in a Google search seems like so much generic store-brand potato chips: Filling, but really low-quality.
Cui bono? Certainly not those whose labor is being sold. Comments. Welcome to the JSTOR Showcase — Showcase. Daily Usage Map — Showcase. Every day, users from around the world view articles in fifty fields of study on the JSTOR web site. As with many web sites, JSTOR collects this usage data for a variety of reasons. We take this usage data and build an animated map of that activity, daily. We generalize the activity data in two ways. First, in order to have sufficiently distinct symbols on the map, the fifty different fields get combined in to six groups (plus one 'other' for activity that doesn't include a field) that provide broad categories of study.
Second, the scale of the map requires combining 'close' locations—a small map of the world does not have enough space to distinguish activity from multiple institutions in Manhattan, for example, without one symbol completely hiding others. Each circle on the map represents one or more views of an article in JSTOR, with the size of the circle increasing with more activity at a given location. Each 'day' is in the U. The Questia Online Library. Located in downtown Chicago, Questia is the premier online research and paper writing resource.
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