Kris is a data scientist and Senior Computational Disinformation Analyst for Yonder, and the author of Data versus Democracy: How Big Data Algorithms Shape Opinions and Alter the Course of History.
The following is a letter to my first- and second-year music theory and aural
skills students at The University of Colorado–Boulder. This is my second
semester at CU, and the music students
In his article, “Open-source Scholarship
[http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Open_Source_Scholarship.html]”,
Kris Shaffer argues that the open-source software model has lessons to offer the
academic community. Here, Kris demonstrates
Scholarship is, by its nature, open source.
Let me explain.
The open-source (or “free” or “libre”) software movement centers around a single
ideal: community ownership of software. Open-source software may or may not
