[Air-L] Taylor Lorenz ?

[Dave Levine]

Thx for raising this important issue. 

Apologies for the self-promotion, but this issue is one big reason why I launched Hearsay Culture on Stanford University radio in 2006 (https://hearsayculture.com/). I’ve interviewed at least 150 academics over the past 19 years; in fact, I’ve found a number of my guests for the show on this list, and they’ve been fantastic!

Based on my experience, part of the reason has to do with the general obscurity in which many academics operate (especially at schools that lack robust publicity departments, or with publishers whose marketing is lacking). Other aspects include the lack of expertise among some journalists themselves, making it difficult for many to ascertain what questions to ask and to whom; journalism marketing (a high profile school is easier to market for eyeballs than one that is lesser known); and time (it’s easier to find people who are already public and known quantities than digging thorough school and other bios).

At the risk of being presumptuous, I would like to propose two things, if of interest: 

1/ This is an important issue. I’d like to convene a small group to discuss how we might collectively work to help amplify the massive academic expertise that sits on the sidelines in journalism (including radio and podcasting) — especially when the need for tech expertise is so great, and so simultaneously diminished, in policymaking as well as journalism. Please email me at info at hearsayculture.com if you’d like to be part of a Zoom discussion on this topic. 

2/ If anyone has a paper, book, or other project that you think would be a good fit for Hearsay Culture Network (HCN), please email me at content at hearsayculture.com. Please note that HCN includes not just the Stanford radio show, but also a few other shows with my colleague, veteran tech law podcaster Denise Howell (more info here: https://hearsayculture.com/about).

Thx, Best, Dave

— 
Dave Levine
Founder and Host, Hearsay Culture 
Co-Founder, Hearsay Culture Media, LLC
hearsayculture.com

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> On Feb 20, 2025, at 12:16 PM, Morten Bay via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> 
> There appears to be a general reluctance toward using academics as expert sources among American tech journalists - in contrast to almost any other beat in journalism.
> 
> I honestly don't get why podcasts and YouTubers don't avail themselves more of this. Particularly our community is brim-filled with people like Dr. boyd who express themselves clearly and compellingly about sometimes quite technical concepts.
> 
> From side-hustling as a tech journalist myself, I have come to suspect it has to do with the fact that many of the younger tech journalists currently dominating the discourse are actually not trained as journalists, but came up through blogging and social media.
> 
> This means that they don't know the value of leaving the expertise to the experts in reporting. They want to be the experts themselves.
> 
> I personally struggle with this qnd have to keep a tight discipline to ensure that I don't fall into the same trap when I do journalistic reporting.
> 
> Morten Bay, Ph.D.
> Lecturer
> Research fellow, Center for the Digital Future
> Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
> On Feb 20, 2025, 6:11 AM -0800, default friend via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>, wrote:
> danah boyd's been a guest iirc! Sent via Superhuman iOS ( https: //urldefense. com/v3/__https: //sprh. mn/?vip=defaultefriend@ gmail. com__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!rSzRaG7VEqYOEHFrv7HELbXnFI3PxjdUY2c5jAbCFUc8H-DnatLIs12l6IqPhoIGbvLgZdRO-jaJ17_0qQ$ ) On Thu,
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> danah boyd's been a guest iirc!
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>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM, Alexandre Hocquet < air-l at listserv.aoir.org > wrote:
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>> Dear Internet Researchers,
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>> 
>> To give some context, I am not living in the US and I am a Historian of an
>> Internet that might be labelled as 1.0 so I find the "Power USer" podcast
>> interesting to get a grip on today's Internet. I am finding almost every
>> guest on the podcast has something interesting to say, whether it is about
>> Spotify, Musk's zoomers, or Deepseek... but I am also puzzled why guests
>> are never Academics (or are they ?).
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>> 
>> I wonder what you Internet Researchers think about this podcast and why
>> Academics from this community are not invited ?
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