As in the early 19th century, the nature of #knowledge itself is being transformed in fundamental ways in the early 21st century
3 key challenges of contemporary #research #communication 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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During #Humboldt’s time, scientific inquiry and rational thought became foundational to the constitution of #knowledge. Today, we see the relegation of #science to one opinion among many, in debates over matters
ranging from #ClimateChange to #Vaccination
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During #Humboldt’s time, challenge for researchers was to develop new channels through which to communicate #knowledge. Today, challenge is for researchers to make their voices heard in the noise of social media communications 👉🏼dangerous #infodemic
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During #Humboldt’s time, #science was the domain of bourgeois white men who had just cut #knowledge loose from the shackles of #Latin and communicated in the burgeoning national #languages of Europe 1/3
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Today, the legitimacy of the white male voice is being
questioned but scholars from the global South, non-white scholars, women and scholars from non-English-speaking backgrounds are still struggling to gain #authority in the academy ... 2/3
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... but at #Language-on-the-Move we are changing that one PhD at a time 😊
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