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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Sep 2020
      Replying to @antoniogm

      Academics don't think Internet will ruin everything. That usually comes from people making the viral thing du jour. Academics tend to know actual history. As for the first versus popularizer—you're judging different games by the same standard. Different incentives.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Sep 2020
      Replying to @antoniogm @benthompson

      What do you think is the game for (most) academics? It's not a job populated mostly by people trying to maximize their earnings or their public visibility. Anyone who can succeed in the tough academic job market could almost certainly make much more money some other way.

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    6. jonstokes(\.com|\.eth)‏ @jonst0kes 15 Sep 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @antoniogm @benthompson

      I pretty strongly disagree w/ this. Academics at the PhD level feeding into the job market optimize for status within the hierarchy of their guild & the larger academy (but mostly guild). Some of these skills may translate to BigCos but in general I think they'd be eaten alive.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Sep 2020
      Replying to @antoniogm @jonst0kes @benthompson

      You're totally wrong because those companies are hiring academics fresh off the PhD in large numbers by dangling a lot of money, and if they had hired more earlier, they'd have avoided some of their stupidest, easy-to-avoid mistakes. (Though wouldn't solve the big thorny ones).

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Sep 2020
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      Academia itself is not the track for people who care most about money. If you do manage to get a tenure-track job at a reasonable place though, it's literally career lottery. It's a secret because the happy ones aren't complaining on social media. They're just happy.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Sep 2020
      Replying to @antoniogm @jonst0kes @benthompson

      I actually *wish* they cared more about holding court over society in some large numbers hahaha. Many of these people like research, thinking, teaching and mostly, the autonomy. A tenured academic doesn't have a boss in the traditional sense. Very few outside get how that works.

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        2. „Тој со наводниците“‏ @petark 15 Sep 2020
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          To be honest Antonio, your criticisms of academia in this thread are almost a perfect parallel of the academics' criticisms of businesses, tech, etc. - full of facile argumentation and lack of knowledge of basic facts and dynamics of the subject. In this particular tweet...

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