{"id":1660,"date":"2006-02-25T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2006\/02\/25\/academics_get_t.html"},"modified":"2006-02-25T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T00:40:08","slug":"academics_get_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2006\/02\/25\/academics_get_t.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Academics: Get to work!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if i should be offended or excited by John Dvorak&#8217;s latest post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1895,1928970,00.asp\">Academics: Get to work!<\/a>.  On one hand, he argues that &#8220;we need social studies about the Net and computers&#8221; which is great because i couldn&#8217;t agree more.  Besides, that sounds like a statement that will keep me in business for a while&#8230; But on the other, his example is the lack of analysis on MySpace and blogging.  Uhh&#8230;. ::raises hand::  There are quite a few academics studying this stuff from all sorts of different angles.  People from communications, linguistics, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology&#8230; Now, whether or not anyone is listening to them is still an issue up for debate.  But at least on a personal note, i would argue that there are a few people listening to me about MySpace and i&#8217;ve been rattling on about it since 2003, albeit on a limited basis on my blog in an attempt to not be accused of corrupting my data.  And there&#8217;s no doubt that i&#8217;ve been rattling on about blogging, LiveJournal, Friendster, tagging and quite a few other &#8220;Web2.0&#8221; schtuff.  So, i&#8217;m a bit confused by Dvorak&#8217;s column.  Anyone closer to him have a sense of what that&#8217;s about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if i should be offended or excited by John Dvorak&#8217;s latest post Academics: Get to work!. On one hand, he argues that &#8220;we need social studies about the Net and computers&#8221; which is great because i couldn&#8217;t agree more. Besides, that sounds like a statement that will keep me in business for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web2-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}