A2K Writing Competition Award Ceremony

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The A2K conference began with a session where the winner and runners-up of the writing competition were announced and discussed their papers. The session was chaired by Boris Rotenberg of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy.

Winner

David Kellogg, "Toward a Post-Academic Science Policy: Scientific Communication and the Collapse of the Mertonian Norms"[[1]] This will be published in the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy in the Fall of 2006.

Please click on the link above to access the preprint of this article in PDF format, and send comments to the author: mailto:d.kellogg@neu.edu

David Kellogg is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Advanced Writing in the Disciplines at Northeastern University. His academic training is in English (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) but he also has worked for a number of years as a scientific and technical editor both in academic settings and for private research corporations. His contribution to this conference is directly informed by this range of work. As an academic, Kellogg has spoken and published in the fields of scientific writing and in literary and cultural theory. He is completing a textbook, Writing Laboratory Science: A Guide for Emerging Investigators, and is beginning research toward a book tentatively entitled The Rhetoric of Anti-Science: Definitions and Exclusions along the Scientific Borderlands.

Abstract: This essay explores the transformation of science and scientific communication from the academic mode that prevailed in the postwar period to an emerging model of post-academic science. A close reading of Robert K. Merton’s 1942 essay on the norms of science links the Mertonian norms to the patronage structure of U.S. science during the cold war. Following John Ziman’s term post-academic science to describe the emerging standard, I trace how the norms of industrial and academic science are being combined into new forms of collaboration and patronage, and how the academic understanding of science fails to describe emerging practices. In my conclusion, I examine some recent controversies in the public understanding of science and explore how a dialectical, post-academic model helps us understand the present crisis.

Runners Up

Joshua Pila, "Access to Global Telecommunications: A Comparative Discussion of the International Legal Issues Confronting the Telecommunications Relay Service"

Joshua Pila is a second year student at Georgetown University Law Center, where he is in the Top 15 percent of his class. Joshua graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida in 2004, and has been named to the UF Hall of Fame, the USA Today All-Academic Third Team, and Florida Leader magazine's “Florida's Finest.” Joshua has held internships in corporate, government, trade association, academic and non-profit organizations and has been extremely active in campus leadership positions. His legal interests are in the fields of regulatory, intellectual property, and transactional communications law. He will join the DC-based communications law firm of Dow Lohnes and Albertson as a summer associate in May.

Katarzyna Czapracka, "Where Antitrust Ends and IP Begins - the Tale of Two Jurisdictions"

JSD Candidate and a Friedman Fellow at Columbia Law School. Katarzyna's academic interests focus on antitrust and IP law intersection.She holds an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School, an M.A. in law from Poznan University (Poland) and an M.A. in European studies from Warsaw School of Economics (Poland). Prior to commencing the doctorate at Columbia, she taught EU law at Poznan University and practiced EU competition law in an international law firm in Brussels.