I think we can live our whole lives happy without academia's take on Facebook, but otherwise wholeheartedly agree with this critique.https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1453028053802631170 …
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There is an enormous glut of social scientists out there, and a lot of the calls for "proper oversight" of Big Tech amount to a scheme to divert tech profits into a sinecure for academics, who would embed within these companies and produce reports until a comfortable retirementpic.twitter.com/fInnSWJJf7
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You’re wrong because with the exception of a few, many those people are already employed by those companies or are already producing “embedded” quasi-PR. There’s a large number of legitimate academics largely or completely shut out exactly because they refuse to play that game.
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I think the incentive for academic capture of social media (to the point where you have some social media analogue of journalism school or an MFA) is strong, and the allure of great green fields of money to be settled by young professors (in good faith!) should not be ignored.
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What I'm telling you is that the "allure" you talk about has been there for a decade, and a large number of academics have resisted or completely rejected it, and have thus been shut out. No group I can see with better track record in producing good work and resisting the money.
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This boils down to
#NotAllAcademics, which is different to the point I'm making, that the project of cutting out this business model root and branch will be made more onerous the deeper we let those roots penetrate. No one will advocate for their own livelihood to be eliminated!1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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It is not
#Notallacademics because the allure has been there for a long time, and dangled in the worst possible way, but still resisted by many who nonetheless produced pretty good work. The current model—data/money subject to company whims—produced more of your examples.3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes -
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i did
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