Re: <nettime> Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of "Highbrow Journalism"

[gab fest <gabfest@gmx.us>]

On 10/17/14 6:30 AM, d.garcia wrote:

> The Morozov article is indeed very misleading. There is nothing in the
> New Yorker headline to indicate that this is anything other that an
> article full of the ideas and research by Morozov himself.

A headline does not usually have a dual function as a footnote, although 
that's an interesting concept:  the proposition that an essay's head 
should eat its tail. That sort of circularity would surely promote good 
circulation.

There's been a good deal of theorizing about comment counts, likes and 
mentions. Is there anything out there which relates that familiar type 
of  networked social accountancy to academic citation? Zero Footnotes?


> It is also true that obsessive bureaucratic procedures to avoid any
> inference of plagerism in academia frequently have the effect of
> strangling good writing at birth, turning so called rigour into rigor
> mortis in all the ways that Ted has described. His -accountancy model-
> and its relationship to the well known political economy of academia,
> feels spot on.
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