Wikis

Several of us are working on revamping the blog for CCCC-IP, and part of what we want to do is to have a nice big portal of resources on authorship, intellectual property, copyright, public domain, open content, open source, and collaboration for people in composition. For my part, I'd like the CCCC-IP portal to be the best, most comprehensive IP portal on the entire interweb. We're eventually going to divide it into subcategories, but here are the links I've thrown together for now, in no particular order:

• Rhetoric 8550 Syllabus
• The Genius and the Copyright: Economic and Legal Conditions of the Emergence of the ‘Author’ by Martha Woodmansee
• The Political Economy of Commons by Yochai Benkler
• Rhetoric, Feminism, and the Politics of Ownership by Andrea Lunsford
• A Copyright Cold War? The Polarized Rhetoric of the Peer-to-Peer Debates by John Logie
• The Economy of Ideas: Selling Wine Without Bottles on the Global Net by John Perry Barlow
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
• A Second Look at 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' by Nikolai Bezroukov
• Prospectus: 'The Future Is Open' for Composition Studies: An Alternative Intellectual Property Model for the Digital Age by Charles Lowe
• The Copyright Cage by Jonathan Zittrain
• Illegal Art
• Seth Finkelstein
• What Matters Who Writes? What Matters Who Responds? Issues of Ownership in the Writing Classroom by Andrea Lunsford, Rebecca Rickly, Michael Salvo, and Susan West
• Intellectual Value by Esther Dyson
• Wikibooks
• Wikisource
• Authorama: Public Domain Books
• Bibliography on Openness, IP, Collaboration, and Scholarship by Charles Lowe
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
• bIPlog
• Commons-blog
• Copyfight
• Creative Commons Weblog
• Creative Commons
• Frank Field
• Infocult
• Lawrence Lessig
• Napsterization
• Sivacracy.net

Arete and This Public Address also have a portal with some IP links that I'll have to check out. (NOTE: I will be adding links to this entry and reorganizing the links as I see fit.) We also need links to campus IP policies for instructors (for distance ed, etc.), more articles (esp. on theories of authorship, e.g. Foucault, Barthes, etc.), collections of public domain content, material on libraries and IP, articles on open-access scholarship, anything you think is appropriate. Please comment! Even just pasting in URLs would be great.

I'm fully aware of the extent to which I'm showing my geekiness here, but lately I've been noticing that Wikipedia doesn't have many entries on qualitative research methods. If I were teaching a graduate course in research methods, I'd assign 1000-2000 word articles on the following topics -- and more as I think of them -- to be written for submission to Wikipedia (this assignment could be collaborative):

• Rhetorical analysis
• Grounded theory
• Textual analysis
• Content analysis (right now there's only a stub on it)
• Ethnomethodology (to augment what's there)
• Research design
• Naturalistic research
• Qualitative (this could use more information, IMO. See also Quantitative)
• Descriptive statistics, if someone were inclined to add to that
• Feminist research
• Genre analysis
• Research ethics
• Survey research
• Interview (just to add material on interviewing as a research method)

For the past few weeks, I've been following Clay's book reviews with interest, as he's rereading texts on methods in preparation for his Spring 2005 research methods class. I hope he'll consider having his students write articles for Wikipedia. Besides being helpful for the students, it would put information and knowledge into the commons and benefit others.

Edited to link to Clay's course description and to add that Wikipedia does have decent entries on case study and ethnography.