Academia.edu And Social Research Sharing Networks: Building the Academic Commons of the Future | UCSB Library

"The growing membership of for-profit academic networks such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate has gone hand in hand with an increasing use of metrics in scholarly communication and the development of audit cultures in academia. Janneke Adema, Research Fellow, Center for Disruptive Media, Coventry University will explore how the all-round measurements that support a quantified academia create major issues around privacy and surveillance."