Jonathan Sterne
Join humanities commons! https://hcommons.org -- it's free and open access, and Academia.edu is a for-profit parasite that charges for access to (often) publicly funded work. I would strongly encourage any humanists still on here to move over to Humanities commons, bring their colleagues with them, and then delete their accounts here.
As for me:
http://sterneworks.org already has lots of my papers. Please contact me via that site, and you're welcome to download my papers there.
I only signed up here because other people occasionally direct me to download their papers from this site and I have no other choice if I want to read the work. No need to follow me, as you will never learn anything about me here, except that academia.edu should not be trusted with your work.
Please read Gary Hall on Academia.edu: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/10/22/does-academia-edu-mean-open-access-is-becoming-irrelevant/
Here's what I wrote in this space before: I don't trust academia.edu. Ask yourself if you should. First, they are a for-profit company using an .edu domain. Second, they are not up front about their business model, but have attracted venture capital funding. Now look around at internet businesses. There are two ways companies generate income: user fees, which are unlikely for a social networking site (since that would mess with their network effects), or advertising and the sale of marketing data on the basis of user behaviour. My prediction is that academia.edu will either become overrun with ads (see: your Facebook and Twitter feeds) or they will start selling marketing data based on academics' behaviour on this site. Either way, the process of knowledge sharing is being monetized by parasitic third parties that have very different commitments and obligations from those of academics. If they didn't have a good plan, they wouldn't have attracted VC money.
And yes, I get that "following" is a useful service for people who want to keep up with colleagues' work coming out, but there's got to be a better way.
If you are concerned about the predatory behaviours of companies like Elsevier, you should be concerned about academia.edu.
As for me:
http://sterneworks.org already has lots of my papers. Please contact me via that site, and you're welcome to download my papers there.
I only signed up here because other people occasionally direct me to download their papers from this site and I have no other choice if I want to read the work. No need to follow me, as you will never learn anything about me here, except that academia.edu should not be trusted with your work.
Please read Gary Hall on Academia.edu: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/10/22/does-academia-edu-mean-open-access-is-becoming-irrelevant/
Here's what I wrote in this space before: I don't trust academia.edu. Ask yourself if you should. First, they are a for-profit company using an .edu domain. Second, they are not up front about their business model, but have attracted venture capital funding. Now look around at internet businesses. There are two ways companies generate income: user fees, which are unlikely for a social networking site (since that would mess with their network effects), or advertising and the sale of marketing data on the basis of user behaviour. My prediction is that academia.edu will either become overrun with ads (see: your Facebook and Twitter feeds) or they will start selling marketing data based on academics' behaviour on this site. Either way, the process of knowledge sharing is being monetized by parasitic third parties that have very different commitments and obligations from those of academics. If they didn't have a good plan, they wouldn't have attracted VC money.
And yes, I get that "following" is a useful service for people who want to keep up with colleagues' work coming out, but there's got to be a better way.
If you are concerned about the predatory behaviours of companies like Elsevier, you should be concerned about academia.edu.
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