“In an odd turn of events, it’s the affordances of the digital world that may help us renew our presence and involvement in the analog world. We have the means now to write in ways scholars could only ever dream about. So, write to be heard, write to be written back to, write to readers who are living bodies with voices of their own. Write to the crowd and let the crowd write back. Write publicly and publicly write. Write.”

Loud, Crowded, and Out of Control: A New Model for Scholarly Publishing by Mark Sample (@samplereality). Sample’s post is a response to Dan Cohen’s The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing.

The digital makes reading and writing an event. It is up to the reader to filter the noise. Sooner or later, critical thinking will be the skill in high demand.