SjanepInteresting read on how twitter as a profit-driven social network gained a position similar to profit-driven journals in mediating the circulation of ideas, building networks and gaining social capital.
Now that it is going down, let us learn from the vision of the fediverse community to build a more horizontal academic platform.
Requiem for a Tweet – Is there a future for the academic social capital held on the platform?
As the real possibility of platform death looms for Twitter, Mark Carrigan reflects on the role of the platform as stage for the accumulation of academic social capital and urges academics, learned…
Heikki Wilenius