At 12:01 -0500 6/11/02, Irene B (hi Irene) wrote:

It would seem to me that a discipline operates within a conceptual framework that represents a set of paradigmatic structures which are commonly subscribed to by members of that discipline-- meaning a somewhat shared philosophic or methodological sets of approaches which give validity to the work that is produced within that framework.

nah. film studies, cultural studies, english lit. have multiple conceptual frameworks with multiple paradigmatic structures. in film, but the post feminist post lacanian psychoanalysis inspired theorists with the cognivists (cognitivists?) and you will not see anything resembling a conversation let alone a common vocabularly.

How else could we legitimize the notion of a "juried journal" or "juried anything" for that matter?

Because many disciplines, particularly in the humanities, will have multiple journals and many represent specific methodological views/orientations.

The basic mission and functionality of a University itself, and the social/ institutional role that the University fulfills is to some degree based on the idea that we somehow maintain credentialing authority (knowledge capital) which is based on our ability to somehow assess "legitimate academic knowledge." And that this knowledge is some way is unique in it's production and is of high value to the society relative to other types of knowledge production.

yes, though i'd pluralise it all :-) knowledges, authorities, and i'd also suggest not only 'legitimate academic knowledge' but also the processes that inform the construction of legitimate (and illegitimate) knowledges. i think it is more important for students to know the processes that inform legitimacy (such as the dialogue on the list at the moment) than the specifics of the content. cheers adrian miles -- + lecturer in new media and cinema studies [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog] + interactive desktop video developer [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] + hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [http://www.intermedia.uib.no]