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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 726.
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[1] From: John Naughton
Subject: Academia.edu (23)
[2] From: Ken Friedman
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.718: research training online? (90)
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Date: 2020-04-02 10:46:05+00:00
From: John Naughton
Subject: Academia.edu
Dear Willard
Just want to signal my agreement with Gabriel Egan’s objections to being
expected to read stuff on Academia.edu (http://Academia.edu).
It’s a bit like LinkedIn for academics. And just as manipulative.
My general rule: any service offering a Google or Facebook sign-in is
either careless or questionable.
In the age of surveillance capitalism only the paranoid survive!
John
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Date: 2020-04-02 08:49:03+00:00
From: Ken Friedman
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.718: research training online?
Dear Prof. Egan,
For the most part, I've been quite happy with Academia. I don't see what
makes them dodgy. They are a private company offering a service. I don't
maintain a web site, so I have no place to put the material on the World Wide
Web. I'll be happy to send these materials to anyone who wishes to make them
available on their web site.
As an intermediate step, I'll send Willard the documents. If he wishes to
distribute them to the Humanist List as attachments, that's fine with me.
People can only do so much with their time. I do research. I edit a journal,
which is available open access on the World Wide Web. I make my own documents
and teaching resources available on Academia. I'm not prepared to manage a web
site just so that people who don't like Academia can read me. Nearly 6,000
people follow me on Academia with over 1,000,000 views and downloads of my
different papers over the years. That's a reasonable audience.
No matter how much work I do, I can never catch up on my reading, and I rarely
finish the articles and books I ought to be writing. Managing a web site is a
burden I will avoid.
Warm wishes,
Ken Friedman
Ken Friedman, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The
Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in
Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-
journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation
| Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| Eminent Scholar | College of Design,
Art, Architecture, and Planning | University of Cincinnati ||| Email
ken.friedman.sheji@icloud.com | Academia https://tongji.academia.edu/KenFriedman
| D&I http://tjdi.tongji.edu.cn
> On 2020Apr 1, at 10:08, Humanist wrote:
>
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 718.
> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
> Hosted by King's Digital Lab
> www.dhhumanist.org
> Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
>
>
>
>
> Date: 2020-03-31 09:25:36+00:00
> From: Gabriel Egan
> Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.710: research training online
>
> Dear Ken Friedman
>
> I'd like to take a look at your intriguing
> materials on research training announced on
> Humanist.
>
> But you've put them on http://academia.edu so
> I'd have to do one of the following:
>
> i) Tell Academia.Edu my email address
>
> ii) Create an Academia.Edu account
>
> iii) Create a Google account
>
> iv) Create a Facebook account
>
> I don't want to do any of these things. Why
> don't you just put your stuff on the free
> (Open Source, Open Access, Open Standards)
> WorldWide Web rather than giving it to a
> dodgy private company that has a distinctly
> spurious claim to its ".edu" top-level-domain
> name?
>
> Regards
>
> Gabriel
>
>
> --
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Professor Gabriel Egan, De Montfort University. www.gabrielegan.com
> Director of the Centre for Textual Studies http://cts.dmu.ac.uk
> National Teaching Fellow http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ntfs
> Gen. Ed. New Oxford Shakespeare http://www.oxfordpresents.com/ms/nos
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