User:EGraeff

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Résumé

Erhardt Graeff is a research assistant within the Institutional Cooperation Research Group project and a recent MPhil graduate from the University of Cambridge, where he focused on sociological theory and qualitative examination of rural internet use and social capital. In various forms/fora, he has researched and written on digital divides, e-government, networked public spheres, new media literacy, and Wikipedia. Occasionally, he flexes his web programming skills gained while an IT student at Rochester Institute of Technology, but right now he would rather work on his Russian than his Ruby.

Contact Info

  • email - egraeff [at] cyber [dot] law [dot] harvard [dot] edu
  • phone - 717.919.3145
  • gtalk - erhardt [at] gmail [dot] com

Role in the Team

Research Assistant, Educational Materials

Recent Activity on Wiki

Special:Contributions/EGraeff

Weekly Tasks and Results

week of 05/11/2009

  • task: Write 3-4 page executive summary of EM Research to this point, giving brief summary of the EM industry, our findings, and the quadrant mappings.
    • deadline: 05/11/2009
    • status: not started (05/07/2009)
  • supplemental reading: Cohen, W.M., Nelson, R.R. & Walsh, J.P., 2000. 'Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)'. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 7552. Available at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w7552 [Accessed May 12, 2009].
    • status: downloaded pdf (05/12/09)
  • supplemental reading: Coase, R.H., 1974. The Market for Goods and the Market for Ideas. American Economic Review, 64(2), 384-91.
    • status: downloaded pdf (05/12/09)

week of 05/04/2009

week of 04/27/2009

week of 04/20/2009

  • task: Contact Anita Elberse (see Contacts for EM#Contacted).
    • deadline: ASAP
    • status: completed (04/21/2009), awaiting response to follow-up e-mail (04/29/2009)
  • task: Find copy of Wallis, J. C., Milojevic, S. Borgman, C. L. & Sandoval, W. A. (2006) The special case of scientific data sharing with education, American Society for Information Science & Technology, Austin, TX, Information Today.
    • deadline: ASAP
    • status: completed (04/20/2009)

week of 04/13/2009

  • task: Locate and examine four specific HBS Case Studies by Lee Fleming: "Textbooks Online (A)", "Textbooks Online (A), (B), (C), and (D) TN", "Textbooks Online (B): TBO-- First Day of Orders", and "Textbooks Online (C)."
    • deadline: 04/17/09
    • status: waiting to hear back from Prof. Fleming's assistant (04/16/09)
  • task: See if anything interesting at http://www.academicleadership.org/
    • deadline: 04/15/09
    • status: completed (04/10/09), waiting for follow-up on selected relevant articles
  • supplemental reading: Whyte, W.F. & Whyte, K.K., 1984. 'Interviewing Strategy and Tactics'. In Learning from the Field: A Guide from Experience. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications, pp. 97-112.
    • status: completed (04/25/09)
  • supplemental reading: Carol's summary of first two chapters of Neil Fligstein's The Architecture of Markets.
    • status: completed (05/04/09)

week of 04/06/2009

  • task: Find market information (money they make and lines of products they have related to educational materials) for the companies: Pearson, Thomson, McGraw Hill, Wiley, Houghton Mifflin, St. Martin's/Von Holtzbrinck.

week of 03/30/2009

week of 03/23/2009

  • task: Prepare for/participate in conference call/interview with Jonathan Emmonds of Connexions at 10am on Wednesday, 03/25/2009
  • task: Unify resources under the EM section in the wiki (including Links on EM)
    • deadline: Friday, 03/27/2009
    • status: in progress (03/29)
  • supplemental reading: Cowan, R. & Harison, E., 2001. Intellectual property rights in a knowledge-based economy, Maastricht: MERIT - Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology. Available at: http://ideas.repec.org/p/dgr/umamer/2001026.html [Accessed March 24, 2009].
    • status: completed (04/06)

week of 03/16/2009

  • task: Attend Cooperation Research Group meeting on Monday, March 16 and report on status of other projects
    • deadline: Monday, 03/16/2009
    • status: completed (03/17)
  • task: Define research schedule for the next couple weeks, with specific attention to commitments to work on-site at Berkman Squared
    • deadline: Wednesday, 03/18/2009 (or ASAP)
    • status: completed (03/17)

week of 03/09/2009

  • task: Maintain EM section of ICP wiki site map
    • deadline: ASAP / this will be an ongoing task
    • status: completed (03/16)
  • task: Attend Cooperation Research Group meeting on Monday, March 9 and report on status of other projects
    • deadline: Monday, 03/09/2009
    • status: completed (03/09)
  • task: Document and Expand on initial bibliography for EM field study on appropriate page (see Educational Materials#Bibliography addressing research outline)--submit them to Carol and decide with her which ones are relevant and need to be summarized in AcaWiki.org--this task should develop in tandem with task of answering questions in the Study of the field
    • deadline: Friday, 03/13/2009 (initial sources) / this will be an ongoing task
    • status: completed (03/19)

week of 03/02/2009

  • task: Complete personal page on the wiki with contact information and this list of tasks
    • deadline: Monday, 03/02/2009 (Carol suggestion: check Brendan and Andrew personal page and follow same structure)
    • status: completed (03/02)
  • task: Look at peer production website list and identify any as relevant Educational Materials Cases (Educational Materials#Cases of Study) to go deeper on--list cases, write link and a paragraph--submit them to Carol and decide with her which ones will be valuable as later Cases of Study
    • deadline: Friday, 03/06/2009 (share work with Adam)
    • status: in progress (03/16)
  • task: Develop draft EM Industry Outputs Matrix similar to Genomics and Proteomics matrices in Carol's presentation from Cooperation Research Group
    • deadline: Sunday, 03/08/2009
    • status: decided on a different course of action (04/17)
  • supplemental reading: IPR course materials from Carolina
    • status: completed (03/16)
  • supplemental reading: Holdren, John P. 2008. "Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being". Science, 319:424-434.
    • status: completed (03/19)

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