Academic paper ripe for riffing, translating

The tortured prose that is academic-ese makes this peer-reviewed proposal ripe for riffing and translating by bright illustrators and journalists. The proposal is for a "corpo-civic space" which on first blush seems like an internet platform owned and run by a private corporation but used as a public square.

But ... the paper's abstract focuses on Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram, not Twitter or Youtube or future platforms. Therefore, the academic-ese needs to be translated by someone with a keen eye which can assess character and intent. Harold Evans wrote of the need for a news desk "text editor" to go through articles and make them accessible for a general reading audience. This paper needs a "tech editor" who is politically neutral with no allegiance or stock holdings in one existing corporate platform over any other.

That the abstract of this paper focuses only on Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram makes this latter requirement problematic and perhaps not viable. Therefore no direct link to the paper is provided in this blog post.



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