The HCI academic community does a great job of presenting paper summaries in accessible 5-minute YouTube clips. Gives you the gist of the argument + a friendly face to humanise the research.
Eg. One on absurd outcomes of algorithmic systems:
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Imagine if every academic paper came with a widely accessible video synopsis
Researchers who need to dig into the details would still fund all those $$$ JSTOR subscriptions for access to full papers. The rest of us might get to finally learn what's happening in research labs...
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Even more broadly — I think short recordings (audio or audio + video) are vastly underused as a way to quickly lead someone through something (code, document, presentation, paper) to catch them up. So much richer than writing down a summary.
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Love services like that make it frictionless to record quick audio/video + create a public link
One of the great side-effects of covid online teaching is academia got a crash course in AV tools. Perhaps just a matter of time before folks start making video summaries...