Tag: libraries
-
Preprint content moderation avant la lettre?
Content moderation is vital on preprint servers like arXiv.org. Today, more than ever, moderators are experiencing immense pressure due to the rising number of AI slop papers, while sociologists have shown how moderators function as gatekeepers, who scan and sort submissions. But how did the practice of preprint content moderation start? While preprints were initially…
-
What is Preprint Culture?
Preprint Culture is a book project that employs media studies and book history to examine how science came to speak and traffic in preprints. The goal is to deliver a compelling media history that can help make sense of the current status of preprints in science as well as shed light on how processes of digitization have impacted scientific…
Preprint Culture 