All fields need an information sharing platform. Historically, it was in person at conferences or conventions and such. Now it’s online and continuous.
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lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Hot take of the day: academia doesn’t need social media.
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 week ago
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Does it need to be online and continuous?
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Yeah, I think that they do need a public and easily accessed place to present information, but I can’t for the life of me (per the article) see why engagement would matter much at all in that context.
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It doesn’t need to exist at all. But being online and continuous obviously speeds communication.
maegul@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I don’t think this is true, maybe not at all.
Academia, by its nature, is socially exclusionary. So what they want/need is the ability to have flexibly closed spaces as well as very public spaces. Big-social never really provided that and in many ways I think academia is being kinda left behind by social media.