Why Social Networks for Researchers Still Matter
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5840/eps201956466Keywords:
scientific communication, social networks for researchers, ethics of scientific communication, visibilityAbstract
The paper is a short reply to the comments given on the paper ‘Social Networks for Researchers on the Internet: A New Sociality?’. The author emphasizes some essential differences of such communities from the traditional forms of scientific communication. Agreeing with the argument about the danger that social networks potentially carry, she associates it with the general features of the Internet space. In conclusion, it is accentuated that, despite their shortcomings, social networks offer a kind of new sociality based on the idea of visibility.
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2020-01-04
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2020. Why Social Networks for Researchers Still Matter. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 56, 4 (Jan. 2020), 43–45. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5840/eps201956466.