Sociala medie-flanörer
En udda artikel i en udda tidskrift: "Walter Benjamin and Biz Stone: The Scientific Paper in the Age of Twitter" i The FASEB Journal (där FASEB står för The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology).
Den driver rätt rejält med trenden kring sociala medier inom vetenskapen, t.ex. om hur Watson & Cricks DNA-papper från 1953 skulle ha sett ut om det publicerades idag (vilket påminner lite om "If Research Papers Had A Comment Section"):
Den driver rätt rejält med trenden kring sociala medier inom vetenskapen, t.ex. om hur Watson & Cricks DNA-papper från 1953 skulle ha sett ut om det publicerades idag (vilket påminner lite om "If Research Papers Had A Comment Section"):
This structure has novel features COMMENT: YEAH! HYDROGEN BONDING, LINUS!) which are of considerable biological interest. COMMENT: FOR WHICH I WROTE THE CHEMISTRY, ERWIN FORMAL CORRECTION: IT'S THE GENETIC MATERIAL, YOU FOOLS!, GENES! OSWALDFast samtidigt, en rätt skön reflektion om flanerandet på nätet som konstart:
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing FORMAL CORRECTION: BASE PAIRING A/T=G/C, ERWIN we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. COMMENT: LIKE WHAT? CONSERVED? SEMI? MATT COMMENT: MORTAL OR IMMORTAL? CAIRNS
We are much indebted to Dr. Jerry Donohue for constant advice and criticism, especially on interatomic distances. FORMAL CORRECTION: SEZ YOU! I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE KETO TO ENOL TAUTOMERS. YOU KNEW SQUAT FROM THE CHEMISTRY! JERRY We have also been stimulated by a knowledge of the general nature FORMAL CORRECTION: I SHOWED YOU THEIR PICTURES, MAX of the unpublished experimental results and ideas of Dr. M. H. F. Wilkins, Dr. R. E. Franklin FORMAL CORRECTION: YOU PEEKED, "DARK LADY" and their co-workers at King's College, London COMMENT: OUR TWO FOLLOWING PAPERS ARE DATA, YOURS IS A LEAP, MAURY.
More to the point: much of the Arcades Project prefigures the home page of a social network on the Web. Benjamin literally explores a network: the linked indoor shopping arcades of nineteenth century Paris, the Passages. I imagine a Benjamin today, reincarnated as the perennial flaneur; who follows a path in the Arcade of Panoramas. He stops occasionally at one site or another site. The flaneur ambles (surfs) along a protected space (MySpace) in which bustling crowds are reflected in shiny Windows. He adjusts his cravat in a store-front mirror (Facebook), and when the bell-tone rings in his pocket, he takes out his timepiece (Blackberry). He looks past his mirror image (YouTube), to find two generations of followers (Twitter).Uppdatering: PhD Comics - "Great Tweets of Science".
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