#Scholar #Famous #Monster
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| Title: | #Scholar #Famous #Monster |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Jennifer R. Wolgemuth (ORCID |
| Source: | Educational Researcher. 2025 54(4):226-233. |
| Availability: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 8 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Social Media, Researchers, Scholarship, Adoption (Ideas), Ethics, Internet, Universities, College Faculty |
| DOI: | 10.3102/0013189X251322435 |
| ISSN: | 0013-189X 1935-102X |
| Abstract: | Academic success is now coupled with social media engagement. Social media has become so normalized in the academy that absent a carefully curated social media presence, scholars risk being seen as unscholarly, unproductive, and unpopular. This article lays bare the pressures, mechanisms, and monstrosities of using social media to promote scholarship. We argue that the widespread adoption of social media outpaces critical attention to its ethics and wonder about the future of public scholarship and the monstrous scholarly selves we are becoming. Thinking of monstrosity, with Krecic and Žižek, as the preontological domain that rests beneath society and constitutes alterity and otherness, we ask what kinds of #scholarfamousmonsters we want to be, become, and promote in the digital era. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1468488 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Academic success is now coupled with social media engagement. Social media has become so normalized in the academy that absent a carefully curated social media presence, scholars risk being seen as unscholarly, unproductive, and unpopular. This article lays bare the pressures, mechanisms, and monstrosities of using social media to promote scholarship. We argue that the widespread adoption of social media outpaces critical attention to its ethics and wonder about the future of public scholarship and the monstrous scholarly selves we are becoming. Thinking of monstrosity, with Krecic and Žižek, as the preontological domain that rests beneath society and constitutes alterity and otherness, we ask what kinds of #scholarfamousmonsters we want to be, become, and promote in the digital era. |
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| ISSN: | 0013-189X 1935-102X |
| DOI: | 10.3102/0013189X251322435 |
