Scholars: what you trying in order to organize & support networks of community among emerging scholars?
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Scholars: what you trying in order to organize & support networks of community among emerging scholars?
Today across the extended CAT Lab network, we had a revealing conversation; gradstudents reported that microblogging platforms exposed them to risk/harassment with little reward, and that they were unsure how to find peers & community elsewhere, aside from becoming an "influencer," which only some found palatable.
Are you seeing the same? What can we do about this?
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Andrés Monroy-Hernándezreplied to J. Nathan Matias 🦣 last edited by
@natematias I have also noticed a lot less interest in microblogging compared to my generation. This is probably because these platforms were more niche back in the day. They felt like a private group chat among friends. I have this theory that public social media "died" about 4 years ago and became an industrial-strength experience, mainly for those people interested in influencer-like behavior. If it wasn't for Mastodon, I probably would have checked out a while ago.
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣replied to Andrés Monroy-Hernández last edited by
@andresmh you may well be right. Sigh.
And in one sense, people are free to do whatever they want, and if people no longer want those networks, we can't force it.
But also academia, journalism, & civil society seem less connected now than any time in the 21st century. That seems substantively risky, for society & for the next generation. I fear we'll lose the richness of knowing each other & sharing inspiration/ideas effectively.
So I'm looking for what I can do about this, with others.
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Ulrike Hahnreplied to J. Nathan Matias 🦣 last edited by
@natematias @icymi_law build networks better aligned to the goals of science! https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/openscience_network/
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@natematias @icymi_law what you’re reporting Nate, aligns with my own experience, but I often find myself struggling to convince others of this, I suspect partly due to “survivor bias”- people online who are interested in shaping digital spaces are, by definition, the ones who are comfortable online, not the ones who dropped out or never started.
It would be really helpful to conduct an actual empirical study of these issues that recruited a representative sample of potential users
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Katanova, the Forest Nomadreplied to J. Nathan Matias 🦣 last edited by
@natematias
Build personal networks that encourage and foster healthy boundaries.Large-scale social media does the opposite. It encourages and fosters unhealthy, controlling, manipulative dynamics, with poor boundaries.
@andresmh