{"id":53,"date":"2015-03-23T00:10:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T07:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr559mfh\/?p=53"},"modified":"2015-03-23T02:29:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T09:29:46","slug":"53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr559mfh\/2015\/03\/23\/53\/","title":{"rendered":"A problem with 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joseph Deodato<\/p><\/div>\n

In “The Patron as Producer: Libraries, Web 2.0, and Participatory Culture<\/a>,” Joseph Deodato of Rutgers University\u00a0argues that Web 2.0 technologies and values are just what is needed to upend the top-down hegemonic<\/em> model of information organization in libraries, which has historically privileged certain views over others. Christian, William, and I analysed this piece for one of our recent group assignments, and concluded by\u00a0identifying a potential issue with the patron-as-producer utopia that Deodato\u00a0imagines. \u00a0Namely, when the user\u00a0produces and interacts with content (tagging, commenting, linking, etc.) in a\u00a0library collection, what happens when problematic views are aired? These could range from pseudo-scientific arguments made by\u00a0anti-vaxxers or evolution deniers, to commercial content aimed at selling products or services, to out-and-out hate speech directed at identifiable groups.<\/p>\n

The first examples are very difficult to handle. \u00a0After all,\u00a0yesterday’s nonsense\u00a0may very well be tomorrow’s truth. And are librarians to arbitrate what is nonsense and what is not in the participatory space of Library 2.0?\u00a0I won’t attempt to answer this question here, although I am most interested in your comments. \u00a0As for the second (soliciting business) and the third (hate speech), however, it seems clear that these can be prohibited\u00a0by policy.<\/p>\n

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Jeffrey Beall<\/p><\/div>\n

Policy is one matter. Prevention is quite another. Margaret Brown-Sica and Jeffrey Beall\u00a0(famous for his Scholarly Open Access<\/a> blog and accompanying annual list of predatory publishers<\/a>)\u00a0wrote a relevant piece in 2008 called\u00a0“Library 2.0 and the Problem of Hate Speech<\/a>.” \u00a0In it, they\u00a0acknowledge\u00a0that Library 2.0 technologies and values “benefit library users by providing rich, peer-generated content that adds value to online library databases and systems.” However, they argue that these very technologies and values\u00a0are also conductive to spreading hate speech. \u00a0(Not covered in their paper is commercial content, but similar approaches apply.) The onus falls on the librarian, they state, to deal with hate speech, which is illegal in the US and Canada.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0authors\u00a0make a number of practical suggestions\u00a0on how to deal with such content,\u00a0ranging from moderating all user-generated content, to allowing other users to report offensive material, to requiring the community of users to create accounts and log in before posting anything. \u00a0All of their suggestions have pros and cons; they conclude by recommending that libraries develop and implement policies on the matter.<\/p>\n

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Hate speech definition, United States:<\/p>\n

“…usually thought to include communications of animosity or disparagement of an individual or a group on account of a group characteristic such as race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or sexual orientation\u201d
\nSource: John T. Nockleby, \u201cHate Speech,\u201d in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Ed. Leonard W. Levy and Kenneth L. Karst. Vol. 3. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000. p. 1277-1279.<\/p>\n

Hate speech definitions, Canada:<\/p>\n

Canada Human Rights Act prohibits descrimiation based on “race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability and conviction for which a pardon has been granted.”
\nSource: http:\/\/www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca\/default-en.asp<\/a><\/p>\n

Canadian\u00a0Criminal Code prohibits “any writing, sign or visible representation that advocates or promotes genocide”
\nSource: http:\/\/laws.justice.gc.ca\/en\/C-46\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Brown-Sica, Margaret, and Jeffrey Beall. “Library 2.0 and the problem of hate speech.” Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship<\/i> 9.2 (2008).<\/p>\n

Deodato, Joseph. “The patron as producer: libraries, web 2.0, and participatory culture.” Journal of Documentation<\/i> 70.5 (2014): 734-758.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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