Zeynep Tufekci
I couldn't resist. New post on why I love teaching research methods and that "Catcalling" Video. https://medium.com/@zeynep/32223ac9c9e8?source=tw-a5b491a8b18c-1415022290229 …
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@davechensky I don't disagree! I took the "let's take this at face value as a claim to a finding" approach. But yes.. Virality was the goal.
David Chen
@zeynep Ok, so I appreciate what you're trying to do, but let's say they COULD have made it methodologically sound but the resulting video..
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@zeynep ..would've only garnered 100K views instead of like 31 million. Is that a trade-off you believe the videomakers should have made? -
@zeynep Should we as a society who are now benefitting from discussion (despite its lack of methodological rigor) have made the tradeoff? -
@zeynep Haha I sound like I'm advocating for awful research. Not true. Just saying we should ponder the "creative" value of the video too. -
@davechensky That's a great point about virality, something that drives so much of what folks do these days. I'm going to add this as a note -
@zeynep I'm honored :) -
@zeynep To put it another way: If the opening 30 secs of the video was inaudible white guy catcalls, it might not've been as popular. - View other replies
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@davechensky I added that as a note & an important point, but one I'm not discussing in depth. The other one is choice of who became "bait". -
@zeynep Indeed. Thanks for your work, and for being open to discussion about things. Keep it up! I'm a huge fan :)
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