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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}}
* ''[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}}
*''Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life'' (New York University Press, 1997)
*''Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life'' (New York University Press, 1997)
*''Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University.'' (Pearson Education, 2001){{Citation needed|date=April 2018}}
*''Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University.'' (Pearson Education, 2001){{Citation needed--not accessible in search of online booksellers|date=April 2018}}
*'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)
*'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)



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Geoffrey Sauer
File:Geoffrey sauer.jpg
Geoffrey Sauer, presenting at an IEEE Conference
BornOctober 10, 1968
Occupation(s)Professor, Iowa State University
TitleDirector, EServer.org

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 electronic text archive the EServer[citation needed], an electronic text archive, which was, according to Alexa, the most popular website in the arts and humanities in 2007.[1] He is also the director of the Studio for New Media at Iowa State University[citation needed], as well as an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication in the ISU 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]. He began working at age eight on his father's accounts on PDP-11 and VAX-11/750 minicomputers at his father's university[citation needed].

Education

Sauer attended the University of Notre Dame's Honors Program[citation needed]. 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,[2] with a dissertation about miscommunication between employees and managers in 1990s Internet projects, and its origins in British and French publishing history.[citation needed]

While he was at Carnegie Mellon, he was a founding member (and later, director) of the English Server (later the EServer), which he led to publish writings in arts and humanities free of charge online[citation needed].

In 1998 he received a postdoctoral fellowship at CMU[citation needed]. In 2000 he took a faculty position at the University of Washington-Seattle.[3] In 2003 he moved to the Rhetoric and Professional Communication program at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.[4]

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].

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.[5]

He has written about professional writing,[6] arguing for the historic increase of openness in a range of workplace communication practices, and the increasing importance of open, database-driven, professional resources.

EServer.org

Sauer is the founder and director of The EServer, an open-access online publishing project in the arts and humanities.[7]

Works

In addition to his online work, he has contributed to:

  • Bad Subjects, based in Berkeley, CA, touted as the first leftist publication on the Internet (originally published via gopher)[citation needed]
  • Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life (New York University Press, 1997)
  • Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University. (Pearson Education, 2001)Template:Citation needed--not accessible in search of online booksellers
  • '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

  1. ^ "Alexa: Humanities: Most Popular". 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-11-02. Retrieved 2007-05-10. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ English Department - Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies
  3. ^ Leatherman, Courtney; Heller, David (2000-01-27). "Peer Review: Scholar Takes Advantage of Hot Job Market for New-Media Experts". Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2007-06-20.
  4. ^ "ISU RPC Faculty". 2000-06-20. Retrieved 2007-06-20.
  5. ^ Gannaway, Gloria (2003). "Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University". Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies.
  6. ^ Haselkorn, Mark P.; Geoffrey Sauer; Jennifer Turns; Deborah L. Illman; Michio Tsutsui; Carolyn Plumb; Tom Williams; Beth Kolko; Jan Spyridakis (2003-05-01). "Expanding the Scope of Technical Communication: Examples from the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington". Technical Communication. 50 (2). Society for Technical Communication: 174(18). Retrieved 2007-04-25.
  7. ^ Gieseke, Dave (2005-12-04). "The Choice of Millions". Iowa State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2007-04-24.