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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And you're conflating "commenters" with the academy. The idea that journalism/commenters have never made a difference is.. well bunk, historically. Most everything is downstream of culture and ideas in some sense, eventually in complicated ways that interact with infrastructure.
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I think that some people mistake academia in the US with all academia. Not all of them charge their undergraduates tuition fees.
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