diffusion of innovations
cpikas | February 7, 2010At the PSP Pre-Conference (see my notes), Dr. Harley of the Higher Education in the Digital Age program reported being surprised by their finding that young scholars were unwilling or unlikely to experiment with new scholarly communication (tools/practices/channels). There was a question from the audience that showed the person's disbelief of this finding. No matter how many times this myth is debunked, it remains firmly entrenched. Here are some variations on it:
when generation {x,y, millennial, etc} gets in {university, grad school, the workplace}, {collaboration, communication, search…