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Intellectuals

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The Dissociation of Scholarly Standing in Social Media

New technologies like social media, podcasting and YouTube are dissociating to things that have historically been united. Joe Rogan does not have any scholarly peer-reviewed publications. Once you have a big enough following and backing, you become a writer and you get invited to give talks. So your status as a thinker comes after your fame in these media rather than before it.

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