The Internet Intellectual | The New Republic
By Evgeny Morozov on October 12, 2011 (via danpatterson)
This next part is from Kenyatta:
It’s a shame that both the accusation above and the review that this quote comes from are so filled with anger and bile because it clouds what’s actually a very interesting question: why is it that a world filled with hyperlinks and semantic searches can’t seem to spend much time connecting back to pre-internet work?
That question is also part of the answer: who wants to bother submitting papers to conferences, hoping that they get accepted and published so that you can talk about your ideas twelve months from now when you can affect tangible change by posting them to the fucking internet right fucking now?
Would we even have half of the internet we have now if people like danah and clay waited years to publish their work on online social behavior and community? And, by the way, if you spend any time in a half decent web community, you soon learn that’s it’s nothing but a giant critique machine.
The other, smaller problem with this “critique” is that Jeff Jarvis wrote a fucking business book. Faulting him for not wasting hundreds of pages on theory is like faulting Dr. Phil for not citing Abraham Maslow.
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(Source: danpatterson, via slavin)
