alessandro marescaWhat really surprises me -- as a student of course -- is that nobody is speaking of the role twitter plays (played?) for academia.....
Daniel Griffin@alesss a couple on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thatsaragoodman/status/1588574281663131649
Sara Wallace Goodman on Twitter
“The thing I really like(d) about Twitter is how it "democratized" academia, amplifying experts outside of top-10 networks. If it all dissolves into a thousand newsletters & we retrench into elite silos, both advances in inclusion and cumulative knowledge will suffer greatly.”
@danielsgriffin Thanks, interesting. But what about the algorithms?
Iqra S. Cheema 🪶 [email protected] on Twitter
“Academics' twitter exodus, along with z lib today, would limit the availability of current scholarship for so many for whom these are the only places to access new knowledge and engage with western scholars. I understand their reasons but it's sad that 1/n”
@danielsgriffin OK..it's complicated. But my question is about the algorithms....I mean: isn't academia supposed to work by other means?
@alesss Oh. Like—the Twitter algorithms playing a gatekeeping role or otherwise intermediating relations? (I suppose there is an application of our argument re Google Scholar’s opaque intermediating algorithms to the Twitter case. https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/google-scholar-platforming-scholarly-economy )
@danielsgriffin That's really useful thanks, I'll read it carefully!
@alesss and I just remembered this piece from Sebastian Benthall that might be of interest https://commons.pacificu.edu/work/sc/63bcdb50-8c4e-4823-b34b-178602ea9ee0
@alesss curious about your thoughts!
Also: not re algorithms exactly, but I just remembered this sort of research (which I don’t know well): a finding that articles in a set of journals that had articles randomly shared on Twitter had increased citation rates: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac150
