Don’t Give Your Labour To Academia.edu, Use It To Strengthen The Academic Commons | Open Reflections

At the end of last year Times Higher Education invited me  to provide an opinion piece on academic social networking sites such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate, and to reflect on the ‘Why are we not boycotting Academia.edu?‘ event the Centre for Disruptive Media organised last December, featuring Pascal Aventurier, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, David Parry and Gary Hall, and myself as chair. My piece is now available on the THE website, accompanying David Matthews overview article ‘Do academic social networks share academics’ interests?’. You can find both here: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/do-academic-social-networks-share-academics-interests Due to print constraints the article had to be shortened for publication. Underneath you can find the full version.