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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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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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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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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I think this is one of those things that depends on the PhD. Are they hiring critical theorists? Or are they hiring bioinformatics types?
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I've seen hires across the board in social sciences, to be honest. They could do with some more critical theorists in some fields. Some of the stuff is surprisingly practical in its implications; what gets dunked on social media is the stupidest version (as one expects).
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You're not understanding a thing I said. Academia is an amazing job, with rewards other than money. It's often super practical in its implications, which is why tech companies are dangling large amounts of money to new grads, especially given academic job market sucks.
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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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Replying to @antoniogm @zeynep and
isn't it a bit self defeatingly meta to make a complaint about status obsessed academic pissing competitions into a pissing competition about academics' purported lowly status?
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