As if historians of technology have written nothing about this... https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/making-silicon-valley … https://twitter.com/IEEEInstitute/status/969798777472278528 …
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Replying to @LeapingRobot
Serious question -- ideas on how to advocate productively to get people writing essays of this sort to find and read and mention some of the scholarship?
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Replying to @ehepler
I wish I had an answer to this.
@ColdWarScience hits on a painful point though. One answer - p'raps@wellerstein has thoughts - is to cultivate productive relationships with editors of journals (cf.@PhysicsToday). But that's not a cure-all.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @LeapingRobot @ehepler and
I don't think we can expert non-scholars to take a whole lot of their time to trawl through our scholarly outputs. Esp. if we don't make it easy to do. Let's face it — even we have hard times keeping up with the literature, knowing where to start on a new topic, etc.
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Replying to @wellerstein @LeapingRobot and
Well said. I’m pessimistic that historians as a group will ever recognize that the inaccessibility and unnavigability of our literature is a serious problem both for ourselves and our broader influence.
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Replying to @GWilliamThomas @LeapingRobot and
I think historians of science are self-referential/reflexive enough to see this as a form of boundary-work. For every argument about the importance of our work having broader impact, there are those who will/do argue that there is value in being obscure and not chasing relevance.
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Replying to @wellerstein @GWilliamThomas and
Personally I'm OK with different scholars taking different directions with their own careers. Want to do stuff that is aimed at a larger audience? Cool! Want to do deep dives into a topic that very few people care about? Cool! If you can do good work in either mode, do it!
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Replying to @wellerstein @GWilliamThomas and
And both modes are capable of good work, both modes are capable of bad work, etc. I think "goodness" is a separate category from the "audience," and I wish it was applied more even-handedly to both approaches.
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I do think we need to ask what kinds of work we want our institutions to reward (e.g. w jobs, w tenure, w grants, whatever), and also think about how the norms of evidence, attribution, etc., can vary w/different outlets. There are def differences in each mode, better & worse.
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