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By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:37:22 +0000

what? doesn’t it help when I post lolcats pictures? If you want I could post medieval cocidils in response to your status updates.

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Is there a bit of voyeurism and watching-oneself-being watched going on with the facebook/3rdp thing? Kinda like mirrors on the motel room ceiling.

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:33:25 +0000

“I am, in fact, intensely jealous of those people for whom FB leads to greater scholarly production via communication with the people one’s citing”

During my PhD I shared an office with a chap who was writing his on videogames. A standard scenario would be that I’d enter the office whilst he was playing WoW and talking animatedly into his earphones and mic. What I would see on the screen would be a bunch of muscly armoured fellas beating up trolls or some such. Behind those avatars, they were all lecturers in the field from around the world, all seemingly intent at helping my friend with his thesis.

By: SEK

SEK — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:16:05 +0000

I hope the intensity of my jealously showed there, because I am, in fact, intensely jealous of those people for whom FB leads to greater scholarly production via communication with the people one’s citing. My wife will mention she’s reading Scholar X, and one of her FB friends will mention that that was his adviser’s adviser, and the next day she receives a friend request from Scholar X and a .pdf of some previously unobtainable medieval codicil. I know the size of that scholarly community plays into its FB-effectiveness, but honestly, it’s not like the rest of us are that numerous.

Unrelatedly, I just learned that reading Ballard’s novels is a second-rate way to mainline his ideas: the short stories are where it’s at. I’m halfway through the collection, but my mind’s been all the way blown.

By: adswithoutproducts

adswithoutproducts — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:03:42 +0000

SEK,

No of course it’s good for that sort thing.

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By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:33:18 +0000

Giovanni Tiso likes this.

By: SEK

SEK — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:29:56 +0000

I hear tell that people with robust groups of fellow-minded academic FB-friends actually accomplish more after FB-facilitated encouragement.

Stupid medievalists.