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| caption = Geoffrey Sauer, presenting at an IEEE Conference |
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| birth_date = October 10, 1968 |
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| birth_place = [[Bloomington, Indiana]] |
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| occupation = Professor, [[Iowa State University]] |
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| title = Director, [[EServer.org]] |
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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 was, according to [[Alexa internet|Alexa]], the most popular website in the arts and humanities in 2007.<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 the director of the Studio for New Media at [[Iowa State University]]{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}}, as well as an Associate Professor of [[Rhetoric]] and [[professional communication|Professional Communication]] in the [http://engl.iastate.edu/ Department of English] at [[Iowa State University|ISU]]. |
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==Biography== |
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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}}. |
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==Education== |
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Sauer attended the [[University of Notre Dame]]'s Honors Program{{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 English--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}} |
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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}}. |
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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]].<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> |
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==Scholarship== |
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Sauer's scholarly research examines how material circumstances from the history of publishing have both hampered and facilitated contemporary [[open-access publishing]] ventures{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}. |
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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}}</ref> |
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He has written 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. |
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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}}</ref> |
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==Works== |
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In addition to his scholarship above, he has contributed to: |
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* ''[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]]){{Citation needed|date=April 2018}} |
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*''Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life'' (New York University Press, 1997) |
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*''Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University.'' (Pearson Education, 2001){{Citation needed|date=April 2018}} |
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==Sources and notes== |
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{{reflist|2}} |
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==External links== |
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*[https://works.bepress.com/geoffrey_sauer/ ISU English Department: Geoffrey Sauer] |
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[[Category:1968 births]] |
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[[Category:American academics]] |
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[[Category:Electronic literature]] |
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[[Category:American technology writers]] |
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[[Category:Iowa State University faculty]] |
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[[Category:University of Notre Dame alumni]] |
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[[Category:Carnegie Mellon University]] |
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[[Category:Writers from Mobile, Alabama]] |
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