A lot of colleagues in the academic space look at Twitter as just the site where they would come and waste their time. I see it as an online space where I can learn from other smart colleagues. One of the reasons I started #ScholarSunday was to share my views of which scholars I followed and why I learned so much from them. Recently we had a conversation around a tweet sent by Dave Karpf from George Washington University. I quote the tweet below, and then you can read the Storify of the conversation that ensued.
academic pet peeve:
"Political" is an adjective, not a noun. Please don't ever write about "the political." Way too pretentious.
— davekarpf (@davekarpf) December 19, 2013
As you can see, this conversation is one where we bridge disciplinary boundaries, conceptual frameworks and definitions. And it all happened on Twitter. Is it really a waste of time? Of course it’s not. It’s a space of learning, research and teaching.
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