Where's The Real Discussion On Our Discussion Lists
ACRLog,
Jul 09, 2009
The Chronicle's Jeff Young may write that "the time of scholarly e-mail lists has passed, meaningful posts slowing to a trickle as professors migrate to blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social networks like Facebook" but from my experience, people migrate pretty easily from one community to another, with mailing lists being one of many nodes. These lists have a lifespan, though, and while some of the old standbys (like, say, DEOS and WWWDEV) may be hollow shells, littered with conference ads and calls-for-papers (the ubiquitous spam of academic) and not much else, the discussions flourish on other lists. You can't just camp out and sit on a list for life (though some do) you have follow your muse from one list to the next, one site to the next. Probably a tough thing for old-style print journalists to imagine.
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