Some American university "researchers" put out a "research paper" where they spookily study RS as a "Chinese [😄] far-left platform" alongside Qiao Collective.
1. The poor level of research is interesting.
2. RS is pretty popular it seems!
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06981.pdf
That gives me some hope. But it’s kind balanced out by the paper’s call for more ‘intellectual diversity’ because the research uncovering extremism online tends to focus on the right wing and to be conducted by left-leaning academics. It couldn’t be because overwhelmingly there is only right wing extremism and they’re not going to dox themselves. Couldn’t be that.
(We won’t mention this guy, Matthew Goodwin, and his ilk, either, eh?)
😯 I’d not heard of this one. I suppose this is what you should expect if you have over your entire intellectual apparatus to the yanks to keep the communists out.
Not dissimilar to the Sokal Affair, which eventually led to the book, [Fashionable Nonsense] (https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense). I’m not convinced that Sokal and Bricmont found what they claimed to find but they did reveal some flaws in the academic research process.
No, it was submitted to ArXiv which doesn’t require or perform peer review.
That gives me some hope. But it’s kind balanced out by the paper’s call for more ‘intellectual diversity’ because the research uncovering extremism online tends to focus on the right wing and to be conducted by left-leaning academics. It couldn’t be because overwhelmingly there is only right wing extremism and they’re not going to dox themselves. Couldn’t be that.
(We won’t mention this guy, Matthew Goodwin, and his ilk, either, eh?)
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😯 I’d not heard of this one. I suppose this is what you should expect if you have over your entire intellectual apparatus to the yanks to keep the communists out.
Not dissimilar to the Sokal Affair, which eventually led to the book, [Fashionable Nonsense] (https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense). I’m not convinced that Sokal and Bricmont found what they claimed to find but they did reveal some flaws in the academic research process.