Academic blogging shifted from collective politics to individual self-promotion

Evidence

Reflecting on her own work as a feminist activist, Alexandra Juhasz explains how she understood her blog as “public engagement in thinking out loud, honing a voice, self-naming, community-building, and stake-holding.” Yet, a newer generation of feminist scholars understands this same social practice—academic blogging—as a form of personal “self-promotion” rather than collective politics. I agree there is a gap: senior scholars never urged me to “promote my work,” but I now find myself advising doctoral students to make sure they create and maintain websites, blog about their research, and even strategize about the titles of their article manuscripts: “short titles are better cited,” I counsel. — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love, 622

Categorization

• SEED: Reflects a generational shift well worth an article: how an ethos-practice (feminist blogging as collective) became absorbed into careerist individualization.
• XREF: connects to: Academic metrics mirror social media influence metrics — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 619; Digital self-promotion is singularization, distinct from biographical individualization — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 43; Web 2.0’s openness ideals died while its self-promotion practices intensified — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 23

Broader Connections

• Web 2.0’s openness ideals died while its self-promotion practices intensified #corroborates (0.90) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 23
• Digital self-promotion is singularization, distinct from biographical individualization #complicates (0.85) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 43