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Metrics Mania: The Case Against Academia.edu
- Author(s):
- Jefferson Pooley (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Cultural Studies, Digital Books
- Subject(s):
- Scholarly publishing
- Item Type:
- Online publication
- Tag(s):
- scholarly communication, scholarly publishing, open access, academic social networks, Scholarly communication, Academic labor, Academic publishing
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M64P08
- Abstract:
- Academia.edu has been called "Facebook for academics," and the analogy is fitting: Academia.edu mimics core social-media conventions, down to follower counts, curated profiles with pics, and a scrollable "News Feed" bulletin of followers’ uploads. But its reliance on user-facing metrics exceeds anything you’ll find on mainstream social media. It comes with a dedicated "Analytics" page resembling a gaming leaderboard or a corporation’s annual report. The charts and graphs encourage incessant monitoring, which dovetails with university policies that seek to measure quantifiable "impact." The result? Scholars are internalizing an analytics mind-set.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Online publication
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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