The Facebooking of Scholarly Research - The Scholarly Kitchen

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-10-13

Summary:

"The growing use of SCNs [Scholarly Collaboration Networks], copyright issues aside, is equally troubling. The current business models available for networks that hope to survive outside of just being a feature of some other company’s product, are all based around surveillance and advertising. ResearchGate and Academia.edu want to spy on users to use that data to promote ad sales (or to sell that surveillance data to anyone interested, if such a market exists). As is the case with Facebook, this creates incentives that are at odds with the best interests of their users, who, once again, should not be confused with either site’s real customers.

Do you want your scholarly reading material being chosen based on serving advertiser’s needs? We know Twitter and Facebook have been used to target particular populations and sway their opinions. Will we end up gamifying scholarly articles, including mentions of particular products or ideas in our papers in order to increase our likelihood of visibility and impact?..."

Link:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/10/12/facebooking-scholarly-research/

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oa.new oa.social_media oa.researchgate oa.academia.edu oa.business_models

Date tagged:

10/13/2017, 10:09

Date published:

10/13/2017, 06:09