The internet created a lot of new mediums. Blogs, vlogs, tl;dr culture, explainer videos, Twitter, podcasts, clickbait, ELI5, etc. It seems like we never saw new mediums emerge for academia. Probably because the same institutions are consuming and generating the content?
Great points. I was talking from a fuzzier perspective. Distill represents one shift where more time and effort goes into a paper, but going in the reverse direction and embracing more casual mediums also seems interesting
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For a lot of "learning in public" as
@nayafia put it, there aren't expectations about the medium you use in the first place. People can pick between blog posts, tweets, emphasizing visuals, switching up tone, playing w/ how data-oriented vs argument oriented their writing is, etc -
I'll be the 1st to admit that idk what more casual mediums might look like for academia. I may be totally off base. I'm just curious about how much is filtered out or obscured by a fixed medium that assumes a certain format, length, breakdown, rigor, presentation, etc
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A few: Bret Victor, 3Blue1Brown, Vi Hart, Satoshi, Eric Drexler, Ted Nelson (in a sense), Alan Kay (ditto). I decided to (mostly) stop writing papers in 2008, and to concentrate on more experimental media.
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