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Olson on Rigor, Reliability, and Quality Control in Digital Scholarship  \nKyle Jensen  \nAbstract: This interview examines the relationship between digital scholarship and the politics of higher education. In doing so, it advances a series of recommendations that aim to help digital scholars and digital scholarship achieve an increased level of stature in the academic community.  \nRhetoric and composition scholars who publish in electronic venues are all too familiar with the struggle to have their work validated by fellow colleagues and university administrators . The sobering reality is that in spite of the massive investments of time, energy , and creativity that writing and publishing webtexts require, many skeptics remain convinced that electronic scholarship is less serious , less rigorous , and thereby less valuable to the academy. Of course, those of us invested in composing digital scholarship want this situation to change; we not only want skeptics to understand the difficulty of integrating text , image, video, and sound, but to recognize how this form of scholarship expands our intellectual horizons . Still , the question remains: what steps must be taken in order to convince our peers and university administrators that electronically based scholarship is vital to our field’s intellectual growth?  \nTo gain some perspective on how to answer this question, I recently sat down with someone who not only holds an administrative position as the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University ,{ 1} but who is familiar with the struggle to make an emerging discourse that pushes boundaries of rhetoric and composition studies a legitimate site of scholarly inquiry: Gary A. Olson. Because Olson has also written extensively on academic publishing and the politics of higher education, he possesses a crucial perspective on the tactical steps necessary for convincing university administrators that electronically based webtexts are viable forms of scholarship. The following interview is comprised of a series of follow up questions that invite Olson to elaborate on answers he gave in a recent interview published in Composition Studies entitled, “Returning to the Table: A Conversation with Gary A. Olson.”Whereas in the previous interview, Shelley DeBlasis and I asked Olson to comment on a broad range of scholarly topics , this particular interview is focused on questions concerning the future of digital scholarship and the role it might play in shaping the discipline of rhetoric and composition studies . For example, I ask Olson to comment on a range of issues related to electronic publishing, including: the necessary directions that scholarly websites must take in order to be valued as scholarship, the role that blogs should play in our disciplinary discourse, the Open Access movement , and the value of Wikipedia. Although Olson’s recommendations are specific to each question, many of them center on three key issues that in his mind must be addressed in the effort to legitimate electronic scholarship: rigor, reliability , and quality control. When discussing the importance of verifying scholarly websites , for example, Olson contends that a rigorous peer review process is crucial for establishing the level of quality and reliability that these texts must possess in order to be valued by scholars and university administrators . When discussing the peer review process of electronic journals , Olson returns to these issues again, arguing that e journal editors must become more creative in how they cultivate an awareness of their peer review practices . Until the issues of rigor, reliability , and quality control are addressed on a scale that exceeds our own subdisciplinary conversations , Olson expects that we will continue to “spin our wheels” unproductively.  \nAlthough several of Olson’s responses are quite provocative, we should keep in mind the seriousness with w","cbCaiiJaLpkuKjdW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiJaLpkuKjdW","pdf",351532,11,"English","# Abstract\n## Digital scholarship and academic legitimacy\n## Recommendations and key issues (rigor, reliability, quality control)\n## Peer review and verification of electronic venues\n## Discussion of publishing tools (blogs, open access, Wikipedia)\n## Interview: Olson’s arguments and their relevance\n## Motivations and future implications","[{\"question\":\"What is the interview’s main focus regarding digital scholarship?\",\"answer\":\"The interview examines how digital scholarship relates to the politics of higher education and what recommendations can help digital scholarship gain greater stature in academia.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do the interview questions emphasize rigor, reliability, and quality control?\",\"answer\":\"These are presented as the key issues that must be addressed to legitimize electronic scholarship, particularly through verification and peer review practices.\"},{\"question\":\"How does peer review relate to quality and reliability in electronic publishing?\",\"answer\":\"The interview highlights that a rigorous peer review process is crucial for establishing quality and reliability so electronic texts can be valued by scholars and university administrators.\"}]","Three On a Match - Gary A. 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