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, 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?
@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 in my lifetime. 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.
@natematias @andresmh I had similar thoughts and I also tend to want to aggregate people, but with the community growing (academia is expanding even locally, there's a globalisation process and networks are getting connected), a segregation in subcultures is not necessarily a bad thing. There's also a clear tendency of moving from publicly open communication towards invite-only groups. Not of my liking, but I can't convince myself I have reasons to think it is a bad thing.
