Just as social media has become ubiquitous in academia, its established formats and dynamics have been brought into doubt. Björn Brembs argues that learned societies concerned with their core missi…
I see mastodon as an opportunity for the education community in particular to take back the public forum they had before twatter went to shit.
IMO the best outcome for everyone is universities offering hosted mastodon service to their students and faculty the same way they offer hosted email. That makes Twitter-style discussion possible in the academic sphere without the profit-motivated problems that traditional social media is saddled with.
It’s a great idea but driving eyeballs there would be so difficult given how conservative academics can be with regard to where they prefer to communicate.
Twitter has been the medium of choice for a bunch of fields for years now. You don’t see a lot of academic communication there because much of it is private to followers only to avoid harassment. Followers only Twitter started being a pretty normal thing maybe 10 years ago in response to right wing harassment of women, academics and anyone not conservative white and Christian.
I see mastodon as an opportunity for the education community in particular to take back the public forum they had before twatter went to shit.
IMO the best outcome for everyone is universities offering hosted mastodon service to their students and faculty the same way they offer hosted email. That makes Twitter-style discussion possible in the academic sphere without the profit-motivated problems that traditional social media is saddled with.
It’s a great idea but driving eyeballs there would be so difficult given how conservative academics can be with regard to where they prefer to communicate.
eh, given the choice between literal ‘nazi filled cess pool’ and this… I think the academics know which would be better in the long run.
Twitter has been the medium of choice for a bunch of fields for years now. You don’t see a lot of academic communication there because much of it is private to followers only to avoid harassment. Followers only Twitter started being a pretty normal thing maybe 10 years ago in response to right wing harassment of women, academics and anyone not conservative white and Christian.