This item refers to an earlier Chronicle story describing how people use backchannels (mostly Twitter) to heckle speakers at conferences. It's perfect fare for Chronicle readers: "It appears that the nasty, vicious, backstabbing academic culture has reached a new low with the pack mentality of tweeters who vilify a speaker contemporaneously. Because, you know, there was no bad behaviour among academic at all before backchannels and Twitter.
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