Glenn Tiffert
Biographic Data
| ID | 4383440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenn Tiffert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenn |
| FAMILY NAME | Tiffert |
| SIGNATURE | TIFFERT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hoover Institution |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0307-9661 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
T revor O wens . The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation
The fabled allure of the archives continues to tug powerfully at historians, yet too often the behind-the-scenes contributions that archivists make to this seduction get short shrift. Trevor Owens’s award-winning new book, The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation, may change that. Neither a how-to manual nor a theoretical tract, the book pragmatically delivers a bit of both to guide readers through baseline concepts and considerations involve…
The Authoritarian Assault on Knowledge
An urgent new class of challenges to independent intellectual inquiry has emerged on the global stage. These challenges stem primarily from the vulnerabilities that economic and technological change have introduced into the knowledge sectors of open societies, including both mature and developing democracies. In recent years, intensifying marketization has placed ever-greater financial and competitive pressures on publishers, universities, and ot…
Years After Tiananmen: Memory in the Era of Xi Jinping
The Chinese Communist Party allows no public commemoration of the protest movement that it violently crushed in the vicinity of Tiananmen Square in 1989, but its private reckoning with that tragedy has never mattered more. President Xi Jinping has quietly taken Tiananmen as a guiding light, reading it as a cautionary tale of regime decay and a playbook for revival. This view has inspired his campaigns to tackle corruption, restore ideological dis…
Peering down the Memory Hole: Censorship, Digitization, and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base
Technological and economic forces are radically restructuring our ecosystem of knowledge, and opening our information space increasingly to forms of digital disruption and manipulation that are scalable, difficult to detect, and corrosive of the trust upon which vigorous scholarship and liberal democratic practice depend. Using an illustrative case from China, this article shows how a determined actor can exploit those vulnerabilities to tamper d…
Years After Tiananmen: Memory in the Era of Xi Jinping
The Chinese Communist Party allows no public commemoration of the protest movement that it violently crushed in the vicinity of Tiananmen Square in 1989, but its private reckoning with that tragedy has never mattered more. President Xi Jinping has quietly taken Tiananmen as a guiding light, reading it as a cautionary tale of regime decay and a playbook for revival. This view has inspired his campaigns to tackle corruption, restore ideological dis…
The Authoritarian Assault on Knowledge
An urgent new class of challenges to independent intellectual inquiry has emerged on the global stage. These challenges stem primarily from the vulnerabilities that economic and technological change have introduced into the knowledge sectors of open societies, including both mature and developing democracies. In recent years, intensifying marketization has placed ever-greater financial and competitive pressures on publishers, universities, and ot…
Years After Tiananmen: Memory in the Era of Xi Jinping
The Chinese Communist Party allows no public commemoration of the protest movement that it violently crushed in the vicinity of Tiananmen Square in 1989, but its private reckoning with that tragedy has never mattered more. President Xi Jinping has quietly taken Tiananmen as a guiding light, reading it as a cautionary tale of regime decay and a playbook for revival. This view has inspired his campaigns to tackle corruption, restore ideological dis…
Peering down the Memory Hole: Censorship, Digitization, and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base
Technological and economic forces are radically restructuring our ecosystem of knowledge, and opening our information space increasingly to forms of digital disruption and manipulation that are scalable, difficult to detect, and corrosive of the trust upon which vigorous scholarship and liberal democratic practice depend. Using an illustrative case from China, this article shows how a determined actor can exploit those vulnerabilities to tamper d…
T revor O wens . The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation
The fabled allure of the archives continues to tug powerfully at historians, yet too often the behind-the-scenes contributions that archivists make to this seduction get short shrift. Trevor Owens’s award-winning new book, The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation, may change that. Neither a how-to manual nor a theoretical tract, the book pragmatically delivers a bit of both to guide readers through baseline concepts and considerations involve…
The Authoritarian Assault on Knowledge
An urgent new class of challenges to independent intellectual inquiry has emerged on the global stage. These challenges stem primarily from the vulnerabilities that economic and technological change have introduced into the knowledge sectors of open societies, including both mature and developing democracies. In recent years, intensifying marketization has placed ever-greater financial and competitive pressures on publishers, universities, and ot…
Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · China (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Academic Publishing and Open Access (1 works)