Writers read their contemporaries working on similar things much less that readers interested in the same subject and with similar levels of reading volume. It’s a sort of driving blind spot effect where you can’t quite see the car one carlength behind you to your left
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The lesson of 30 years of tech development of web native media is that you cannot start from abstract values about knowledge (“epistemically virtue ethics”?) or imitation of failing incumbent systems (Gall’s law). You have to build on what actually works.
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This is medium-message co-evolution. The question is not “how can we do academic style or old republic-if-letters/invisible college type research using web technologies?” The question is: “what kind of research works particularly well on hypertex media?”
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Building on what works inevitably means challenging epistemic-ethics dogmas. Doctrines like logical positivism and falsificationidm didn’t arise from nowhere or from noble platonic considerations. They are consequences of print technology and university style scholarship.
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I hereby request a 10 tweet thread on simple things someone in academia can do to take advantage of the open web, to the detriment of traditional publishing gatekeepers. Countless PhD's don't even know RSS from CSS.
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One extension that needs more work is the curation of knowledge from news channels (blogs etc.) into knowledge repositories (Wikipedia etc.) The "old world" has useful intermediaries (review articles, monographs) so far lacking a "new world" equivalent.
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