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-| name        = Geoffrey Sauer
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-| image       = Geoffrey_sauer.jpg
-| caption     = Geoffrey Sauer, presenting at an IEEE Conference
-| birth_date  = October 10, 1968
-| birth_place = [[Bloomington, Indiana]]
-| occupation  = Professor[[Iowa State University]]
-| title       = Director, [[EServer.org]]
-| website     = http://home.eserver.org/geoff/
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-'''Geoffrey Sauer''' (born 1968 in [[Bloomington, Indiana]]) is an American [[new media]] theorist who researches technologies including [[open source]] software and collaborative [[multimedia]] development in the context of the history of publishing. He is the director of the [[Open access (publishing)|open-access]] electronic text archive [[EServer.org|the EServer]]{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}}, an electronic text archive, which is according to [[Alexa internet|Alexa]] the most popular website in the arts and humanities.<ref name="alexa">{{cite web | title=Alexa: Humanities: Most Popular | year=2007 | accessdate=2007-05-10 | url=http://www.alexa.com/browse/general/?&CategoryID=53942&SortBy=Popularity | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102165721/http://www.alexa.com/browse/general?&CategoryID=53942&SortBy=Popularity | archivedate=2007-11-02 | df= }}</ref> He is also the director of the [http://newmedia.engl.iastate.edu Studio for New Media] at [[Iowa State University]], as well as an Assistant Professor of [[Rhetoric]] and [[technical communication|Professional Communication]] in the [[Iowa State University|ISU]] [http://engl.iastate.edu/ English Department].
-==Biography==
-Sauer was born in 1968 in [[Bloomington, Indiana]], and grew up from age three in [[Mobile, Alabama]], the son of an English professor (David) and an academic librarian (Janice){{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}. He began working at age eight on his father's accounts on [[PDP-11]] and [[VAX-11|VAX-11/750]] minicomputers at his father's university{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}.
-==Education==
-Sauer attended the [[University of Notre Dame]]'s Honors Program and there was influenced by the work of scholars such as [[Jacques Derrida]], and [[Pierre Bourdieu]]{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}. In 1990 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to study at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] and in 1998 received a PhD in Literary and Cultural Theory,<ref name="diss">[http://english.cmu.edu/degrees/phd_lcs/dissertations.html English Department - Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> with a dissertation about miscommunication between employees and managers in 1990s Internet projects, and its origins in British and French publishing history.{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}}
-While he was at [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Mellon]], he was a founding member (and later, director) of the English Server (later [[EServer.org|the EServer]]), which he led to publish writings in arts and humanities free of charge online{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}.
-In 1998 he received a postdoctoral fellowship at [[Carnegie Mellon University|CMU]]{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}. In 2000 he took a faculty position at the University of Washington-Seattle.<ref name="leatherman">{{cite news | last1=Leatherman | first1=Courtney | last2=Heller | first2=David | title=Peer Review: Scholar Takes Advantage of Hot Job Market for New-Media Experts | pages= | newspaper=Chronicle of Higher Education | date=2000-01-27 | accessdate = 2007-06-20 | url=http://chronicle.com/weekly/v46/i37/37a01401.htm }}</ref> In 2003 he moved to the [http://engl.iastate.edu/programs/rhetoric/ Rhetoric and Professional Communication program] at [[Iowa State University]] in [[Ames, Iowa]], where he remains to the present day.<ref name="rpc">{{cite web| title=ISU RPC Faculty | url=http://engl.iastate.edu/programs/rhetoric/phd/faculty.html | date=2000-06-20 | accessdate = 2007-06-20 }}</ref>
-==Scholarship==
-Sauer's scholarly research study how material circumstances from the history of publishing have both hampered and facilitated contemporary [[open-access publishing]] ventures{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}.
-Sauer has argued that U.S. publishing is dominated by interests that are decreasingly interested in publishing books that won't sell a lot of copies greatly reducing academic book choices in the sciences and humanities and leading to increasing commodification of academic knowledges.<ref name="gannaway">{{cite journal |last=Gannaway |first=Gloria |title=Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University |journal=Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies |year=2003 |url=http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=240&BookID=202 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509141338/http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=240&BookID=202 |archivedate=2007-05-09 |df= }}</ref>
-Since 2003 he has written increasingly often about professional writing,<ref name="tc2003">{{cite journal | last = Haselkorn | first = Mark P. |author2=Geoffrey Sauer |author3=Jennifer Turns |author4=Deborah L. Illman |author5=Michio Tsutsui |author6=Carolyn Plumb |author7=Tom Williams |author8=Beth Kolko |author9=Jan Spyridakis   | title = Expanding the Scope of Technical Communication: Examples from the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington | journal = Technical Communication | volume = 50 | issue = 2 | pages = 174(18) | publisher = Society for Technical Communication | date = 2003-05-01 | url = http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/stc/tc/2003/00000050/00000002/art00005 | accessdate = 2007-04-25 }}</ref> arguing for the historic increase of openness in a range of workplace communication practices, and the increasing importance of open, database-driven, professional resources.<ref name="kudesia">{{cite journal | last=Kudesia | first=Saurabh | title=Rendezvous with KnowGenesis: Geoffrey Sauer | journal=International Journal for Technical Communication | year = 2007 | url = http://knowgenesis.net/journal/index.php?journal=IJTC&page=article&op=view&path[]=63&path[]=83}}</ref>
-==EServer.org==
-Sauer is the founder and director of [[EServer.org|The EServer]], an open-access online publishing project in the arts and humanities.<ref name="choice_of_millions">{{cite web |last=Gieseke |first=Dave |title=The Choice of Millions |publisher=Iowa State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |date=2005-12-04 |url=http://www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/eserver1114.shtml |accessdate=2007-04-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505191031/http://www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/eserver1114.shtml |archivedate=2007-05-05 |df= }}</ref>
-==Works==
-In addition to his online work, some of his writings in print include:
-* ''[http://bad.eserver.org/ Bad Subjects]'', based in Berkeley, CA, touted as the first leftist publication on the Internet (originally published via [[Gopher (protocol)|gopher]])
-*''Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life'' (New York University Press, 1998)
-*''Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University.'' (Pearson Education, 2001)
-*'コミュニティ、コースウェア、' In ''オンライン・コミュニティ: ｅコマース、教育オンライン、非営利オンライン 活動の最先端レポート''. Chris Werry and Miranda Mowbray, eds. Ken'ich Ikeda, Ed. Supervisor. Midori Shimoda, Kiichi Obata, Ko Ito and Yumiko Koiwa, translators. (Tokyo: Pearson Education Japan, 2003)
-==Sources and notes==
-{{reflist|2}}
-==External links==
-*[http://home.eserver.org/geoff/ Geoffrey Sauer]
-*[http://engl.iastate.edu/directory/gsauer/ ISU English Department: Geoffrey Sauer]
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-[[Category:American technology writers]]
-[[Category:Iowa State University faculty]]
-[[Category:University of Notre Dame alumni]]
-[[Category:Carnegie Mellon University]]
-[[Category:Writers from Mobile, Alabama]]
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