Great questions! Lucky for us, there are hundred+ books on the former and a good number on the latter. The first is a *founding* question of sociology! Discussed in Socy 101 classes. Sure! Let's do more research but don't need to invent "studies" for the way article suggests.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1156260396317253632 …
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I've personally read probably about a dozen *great* books on "Why did the Industrial Revolution start when it did." I mean, it's not even my area of expertise, I just read about dozen great books on the side on this because the topic is so widely studied that it's hard to avoid.
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That said, I'd genuinely read more on this topic, it's a great one. That's why historians, sociologists, economists, STS-folks and many many others have been working on exactly this question for so long. It's a bit overstudied, perhaps, but great questions can bear overstudy.
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New insights are always possible. But hopefully building on existing work. Danger of inventionism is this: to understand anti-vaccination waves, one needs to read Hofstadter. To understand Instagram drama, one needs to read Goffman. Unfortunately, funders tend to like "all new"!
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Let's start this with a tour of library shelves
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Why is progress uneven and why and how is an awesome question with an enormous amount of good, deep and substantive existing work. It's not understudied.Show this thread
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Redesign Facebook to be "Twitter, but with an edit button", "secret messaging woot woot", and "real names only ha yeah right" and I'll log in. Deal? ;-)
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@MastodonProject has solved this problem in a different way - Delete and redraft button :). Have you ever written any thoughts on Mastodon? I can't find any here or on google. Incidentally this search is impossible by default on mastodon.pic.twitter.com/ibbkgXy4ET
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