@InkySchwartz
1/2 Well, as I say, I’m in favour of responsible #openness and scaling-small - although I find the #pluriverse a more subtle and productive concept for thinking about the #culture and #communities we want than the miniverse:
http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/126
I also understand why many of those Matusek et al map as being part of this post-naïve generation of #internet builders – people like Joshua Citarella of Doomscroll and Do Not Research – are keen to by-pass the traditional ‘liberal’ gatekeepers of the ‘old elite’: #universities, academic presses, peer-reviewed #journals. These people position themselves instead as independent and self-organised intellectuals-come-influencers. However, as Morgane Billuart observes in Becoming the Product (https://www.setmargins.press/books/becoming-the-product/), ‘the use of #self – one’s voice, face, and opinions – long rejected by traditional academic standards of rigor, has proven highly effective’ in this new alternative ecosystem.







