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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Definitely valuable for long thesis papers that frankly no one but paid advisors fully read
But even shorter 5-10 page papers with lots of academic jargon are reaching a teeny tiny audience. A few minutes of summarising the main point in plain English would go a very long way.
