Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?

Social media and academe have had an entangled and ambivalent relationship. On the one hand, social media opens new horizons for scholarship and research. They can be powerful instruments of research and make it easier to bring scholarship and expertise to the public. On the other hand, the penetration of social media into everyday life and academic institutions exposes the academic environment to outside scrutiny and the influences of commercial and political interests, posing new challenges to the principles of academic freedom and the integrity of academic communities. In times of global crisis, the entangled relationship between social media and academia becomes even more complicated. This symposium brings together scholars and practitioners from around the world to analyze the multiple dimensions and consequences of what we call the social media-tization of academe. Such analyses are essential for understanding the ongoing transformations in the academy and their broader and longer-term ramifications.

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Host or Publisher Center for Media at Risk