[Air-L] Will Academic Twitter Exist Under Elon Musk?

Wed Oct 26 07:10:13 PDT 2022

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On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 10:08 AM Steph Kent via Air-L <
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> Thank you! One more question
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> Are there tricks to opening/accessing the archive once its downloaded?
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> On Oct 25, 2022, at 5:55 PM, Derek Baird via Air-L <
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> Several people have asked how to get a Twitter archive. It's super easy,
> here you go:
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> Twitter > Settings > Your account > Download an archive of your data
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> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 3:47 PM Derek Baird <debaird at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Reminder to get a Twitter archive asap. can take a few days (it includes
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> DMs.)
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> DB
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> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 3:40 PM sally--- via Air-L <
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> Hi
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> I'm on Mastadon already, but would prefer to be on an AOIR sponsored
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> server...
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> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2022 1:45 PM
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> To: Robert W Gehl <lists at robertwgehl.org>
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Will Academic Twitter Exist Under Elon Musk?
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> Hi all
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> I am very much interested in the Mastadon opportunity. Please count me in
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> too.
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> Be good,
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> Fenwick
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> On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 at 13:52, Robert W Gehl via Air-L <
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> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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> Count me in on this, Aram. (no surprise there, I imagine!)
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> As far as I'm concerned, there is academic microblogging beyond the Musk
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> site -- it's on the fediverse. I'll be talking about it a bit in my
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> presentation at AOIR.
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> - Rob
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> On 10/24/22 13:21, Aram Sinnreich via Air-L wrote:
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> I’ve been thinking that AoIR should launch its own Mastodon instance,
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> open to all members. Something like aoir[dot]social.
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> Glad to discuss in Dublin.
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> On Oct 23, 2022, at 4:42 PM, Richard Forno via Air-L <
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> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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> Hi Stu -
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>
> Like many, I'm hoping for the best, but expecting the worst for
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> Twitter.
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> I find Twitter a fantastic tool for staying in-touch and updated on
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> colleagues' research/ideas/musings, sharing ideas of my own and
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> perhaps
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> soliciting feedback/contributions, following conference hashtags
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> (hello
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> #AOIR2022!), some current events and socialization...and the odd dog
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> or
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> nature photo  I'd hate quit it, but I've not ruled it out ... but I
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> could live w/o Twitter, even after 13 years.
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>
> Without getting too deeply into politics here (which can be hard
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> given
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> the broader issues raised) -- as to your last paragraph Stu, I'm with
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> you.  Since 2001 I've been increasingly concerned about the future of
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> America's lttle-d democracy, view 2016 as a populist
>
> accident/experiment, saw 2020--1/6 as a test run. feel 2022 will be a
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> good indicator of where things are heading having learned from 2020,
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> and
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> firmly believe that 2024 likely will be *the* pivotal point for our
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> country one way or the other.   (Though politically, I think this
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> political decline started in the mid-90s when one party decided to
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> treat
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> the other as the 'enemy' and embraced a scorched-earth brand of
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> politics
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> that considered compromise akin to treason, which got cranked to 11
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> thanks to silo'd cable news and SM platforms in ensuing years.)  And
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> that's all I will prognosticate about here politically -- other than
>
> to
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> conclude by saying I'm worried not just about now, but that we will
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> not
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> be able to fix things and get "back on track for the future" anytime
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> soon.  :/.
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>
> I do admit that despite being an old-school geek/hacker, in recent
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> years
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> I've wrestled with the warm-and-fuzzy nostalgic notion from the '90s
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> that "information wants to be free". In some ways, it's been great
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> for
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> individuals and society -- in other ways, as Borat might say, "not so
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> much."  Of course, that change in thinking also could be a function
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> of
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> midlife as well as current events.   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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>
> But one of the world's dominant modern comms mediums transitioning
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> into
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> an unaccountable private entity run by a person .... however you view
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> Musk .... definitely is concerning on *many* levels.[1]. By
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> contrast, at
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> least FB is a regulated public company and has the appearance of some
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> 'objective' review of controversial things via its Oversight Board.
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> As for aca-Twitter?  As I said, I'm still in wait-and-see, but it
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> wouldn't surprise me to see many tweeps both from academia and
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> elsewhere
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> posting their final tweets either due to protest or for professional
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> reasons / protection by year-end or early next year, depending on
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> what
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> 'innovations' are introduced to the platform post-acquisition.
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> Stay tuned, I guess...
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>
> -- rick
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> [1] WaPo reported Friday that DOD/DOJ 'might' be investigating the
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> Twitter deal and SpaceX-DOD contracts due to national security
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> concerns
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> with Musk's public views and his foreign investors.  Could be
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> something
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> there, could be a flash of desperation to block the sale ... but
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> again,
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> the question of accountability comes up.
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> On 21 Oct 2022, at 7:43, Shulman, Stu via Air-L wrote:
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> Will academic Twitter exist under Elon Musk? Will there be more or
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> less
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> data? More or less urgent issues to study? Will the "Fail Whale"
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> show
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> up
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> again after 75% of the staff is gone? Who will do content
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> moderation?
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> Is
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> this a FastTrack to the next violent uprising in the US?
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> I am curious what people on this particular list think is about to
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> happen.
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> After 12 years featuring the formal study of Twitter data I am
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> completely
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> burned out. Not on the challenges, nor the art and science of the
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> tasks. I
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> still love talking to students and faculty who have chosen Twitter
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> as
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> the
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> object of their research. The data has never been more widely
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> available and
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> the positive uses of it can be inspiring.
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> It's the voluminous amounts of hate I see in my own research. Also
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> the
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> systemic weaponization of Twitter against democratic systems of
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> government
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> globally. As an original Board Member and the Treasurer of a 501
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> (c)(6)
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> called "The Big Boulder Initiative" I was working as a liaison to
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> academia
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> with a group of industry people on the "long term preservation of
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> the
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> social data industry." The industry survived, but the ideals aspired
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> to
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> have not. We offered this 2-minute Lawrence Lessig-inspired vision
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> of
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> the
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> challenges about 7 years ago:
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> "Why Texifter Joined the Big Boulder Initiative"
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> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://vimeo.com/129423037__;!!IaT_gp1N!0Ghlkf1rWCTGT5MfqPFpLm-cdX_SBpmFHVzAbi7e_nr3KCSBblNWocRhIbpOHQGFDd5ZOBbVTyp2WHk_ow$
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> Lessig was right. On the Internet, architecture is the most powerful
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> regulator. The architecture of Twitter, with corporate ads featured
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> on
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> insurrectionist and other problematic timelines, is now a persistent
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> threat
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> to democratic systems of government without a single day of Musk
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> governance. The insurrection January 6, 2021 was planned in the open
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> on
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> Twitter. There were advertisements from familiar brands in every
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> seditious
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> timeline. Evolving tactics using Twitter trains (tagging 30
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> like-minded
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> users), notification-rich replies, the ReTweet functionality,
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> gamification,
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> domestic and foreign meme warfare, the idolatry of influence via
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> misinformation, bots and trolls, as well as paid amplifiers of all
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> manner
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> and variety. The "digital soldiers" we found in the Canadian
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> election
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> of
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> 2019 (fake Americans who hated Trudeau but liked RT, Russia Today
>
> and
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> Southfront) were openly planning a QAnon-inspired "storm" which
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> ultimately
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> was the first coup attempt in two centuries of American democracy. I
>
> briefed the US/UK Intelligence Community (staff from the Joint
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> Chiefs,
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> JSOC, etc.) February 12, 2020 via the Strategic Multilayer
>
> Assessment
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> using
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> open source information from Twitter. Things have since gotten much
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> worse,
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> not better, since that briefing. These were the slides in early
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> February
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> 2020:
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> Looking at the current threat-relevant data, I have a
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> sick-to-my-stomach
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> feeling about the next 60 days in U.S. history. We may be late to
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> notice
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> the end of small "d" democracy is imminent or inevitable because of
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> the
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> Internet effects we cannot fully see, capture, measure, or control.
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>
> --
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> Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
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> Founder and CEO, Texifter
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> Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*
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