A debate that particularly interests yours truly, as my only formal qualifications are a very ropey set of A-levels acquired sometime shortly after the last ice age. Somewhere down the line it was implied that the author a ‘mere’ doctoral student was not a proper historian, sparking another intense debate as to what qualifies somebody as a historian. This situation was exacerbated amongst historians following some negative comments made by a university teacher about the Guardian interview of the author of a popular history book. Leading many academics who do use social media to make sarky comments about the seriousness or otherwise of their actions.
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The doctoral student who condemned social media stated in his piece that he was “a serious academic, not a professional Instagrammer”. (Kees-Jan) Schilt had this to say on the subject and Ted McCormick contributed this. Fatuous arsegass born of ignorance and supercilious gargling” “I just reread this and it made me angry this time. My opinion of the article in nicely summed up by Adam Rutherford academic, scientist, broadcaster and author:
Having been an academic historian working in a major research project before the age of the Internet and social media and now being an Internet historian I know which I prefer and which is the more productive for historians. We are part of a world wide network of #histSTM historians and others interested in #histSTM, who communicate with each other via social media and it is in these very fruitful waters that we, as I said two weeks ago, gather up the contents of our humble weekly journal. Now we at Whewell’s Gazette don’t agree with this sentiment at all because without social media we wouldn’t exist. The first was yet another essay, this time by a professor, the last one was by a doctoral student, telling academics to stay away from social media because it’s bad for you. Two topics that made the rounds on Twitter in the last week attracted our attention. Internet history of science, technology and medicineĮditor in Chief: The Ghost of William WhewellĪnother week another edition of Whewell’s Gazette the weekly #histSTM links list bringing you all the histories of science, technology and medicine that social media filtered out of the Internet over the last seven days.
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