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Dear Ken, Yes, we (senior researchers) should help doctoral students, especially on this list. In helping them, we expose ourselves to the indiginties of getting caught up in the urgent communities of the Internet. The loss of symbolic efficiency (Zizek) through massive amounts of stuff being pushed out and the compounding corruption of the publication process through predation, means we can get things wrong as we attempt to rescue sense from nonsense. But we must persist. Some years ago, when I reviewed recent novels and edited poetry for newspapers, the challenge was always to find the gold in the dross. Would my review of a novel end up as a joke? Would I go down in history as the fool who didnšt spot the great author in their stumbling first efforts? Equally, would I praise some pumped up twaddle because it looked like it had been constructed using my preferred techniques? So, there are different tasks here. I can see uses, for me, in some of what Terry writes. Equally, I agree that our primary purpose on the list is PhD design stuff. Back to the Internet and its mess. keith On 19/1/17, 12:25 am, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design on behalf of Ken Friedman" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote: >We should indeed help doctoral students and younger researchers to >identify predatory journals. This is sometimes difficult, with the >massive flood of these ventures that predatory publishers launch on a >daily basis. In my view, some of your reasons make no sense in the real >world. People simply cannot manage the massive flow of information. If >you were to work with these issues, youšd know this. The very flood of >publications even real ones is has long been responsible for a high >degree of information overload in nearly every field. As I see it, it >makes little sense to talk about reducing barriers to communication and >speeding dissemination when the massive load of research communications >is so great that the quantity of serious research publishing is itself >the greatest barrier to communication and rapid dissemination. On January >4, I replied to Stanislav Roudavski and Fil Salustri on the topic of a >design research equivalent to ArXiv. In reply, youšll find a list of over >40 serious, non-predatory design journals (copied below). People can >hardly keep up with these. ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------