Knowledge mapping - what don't I know?

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Major topics that I know I don't know enough about:

• history of academic publishing
• [history, science, strategy, process] of [activism, changing institutions, changing laws, changing people's minds]
• history of open science - people, projects, successes and failures, battles
• propaganda, corporate fraud, etc. (major cases, examples, effects)

What I've done so far:

• reached out to historians, open science veterans, and legal experts for advice about key sources of information
• arranged to get some 'brain dump' time with my mentors, in which I fire questions at them and record their responses, designed to get a big pile of ideas and facts that I can then learn more about on my own time

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I know a reasonable amount about copyright and other intellectual property. But this could be greatly expanded. Add some IP law experts to my brain dump request list.

Stuff to read:

• UK copyright law + database law
• EU copyright law + database directive
• US copyright law
• EU intellectual property review proposals and current status
• UK/EU/US case law and prominent battles

People to approach:

• [x] Charles Oppenheim
• [x] Julia Reda
• [ ] Kenny Crews
• [x] local experts, starting with
  • [x] Peter Murray-Rust
  • [x] Jenny Molloy

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[history, science, strategy, process] of [activism, changing institutions, changing laws, changing people's minds]

some reading suggestions from Greg Wilson:

• Saul Alinsky - Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
• James Scott - Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
• Adam Hochschild - Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

suggestions from a friend, a former historian who does corporate top team coaching and management consulting:

• Bodlean Library (eds.) - The Slave Trade Debate for historical perspectives on social change in the abolition of slavery
• Kotter International - The 8-step process for leading change for an examplar strategy for engineering organisational change
• Jenny Nabben - Influence: What it Really Means and How to Make it Work for You for an effective influencing strategy
• Lewis et al. - Positive psychology and managing change
• John Kotter - Leading change: why transformation efforts fail [PDF link]
• Emily Lawson & Colin Price - The psychology of change management

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Discussion with two historians on history of change

• most of history that studies change is about how people have failed to create change
• in general any attempt to bring about change on an ideological level has failed except where violence has been applied
• need motivating underlying philosophy
• and penalising factors for bad behaviour
• difference between socialised power (impact?) and personalised power (status), and money

Discussion with corporate management people on affecting publishers:

• look at what large corporations (e.g. RELX group) care about - quite probably the owning companies realise publishing is unsustainable
• look at influencing shareholders (get analyst report on concentration of shareholding) - likely mostly pension funds
• look at carbon disclosure project (official site | wikipedia), experienced at influencing shareholder behaviour as a drive of influencing corporate behaviour
• HSBC has also been responsive to this kind of shareholder lobbying
• what would it be like to be this company? (e.g. RELX) - look at their analytics (ask my corporate contacts to get these reports)
• think about organisations like CUP, OUP. What makes the academic publishing arm tick, what would incentivise them to change their publishing arm
• a good route would be to consult senior economics ppl within Cambridge about how these publishing systems work, how they could be
• talking to learned societies - different business model and different kind of prestige gatekeeping

David MacLelland (Harvard) - Human Motivation <- about types of power Motives & values - myers briggs

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Intersection of IP and history of (academic) publishing

suggestions from Charles Oppenheim

• Peter Burke - A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia: 2
• [John Feather - Publishing, piracy and politics]()
• Paul Pedley - Practical Copyright for Library and Information Professionals

I'll follow up by meeting with Charles after reading Burke & Pedley.

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Orthogonal to all the subjects covered so far - I used to have a strong interest in design. Time to revive this with a focus on design of materials for communicating and teaching science, for convincing and motivating audiences. Collecting some resources here:

• Talking Type by Jessica Hische, a wonderful introduction to typeface selection
• I used to have a beautiful book that showcased graffiti lettering styles from artists around the world. Try to find it online.

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General relevant reading recommendations from Titus Brown:

• Gabriella Coleman - Hacker hoaxer whistleblower spy
• Thomas Leitch - Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority and Liberal Education in the Digital Age
• Jaron Lanier - Who owns the future

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Found the graffiti lettering book in Modulor in Berlin! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Street-Fonts-Graffiti-Alphabets-Graphics/dp/050051559X