Citations are not enough: Academic promotion panels must take into account a scholar’s presence in popular media

The underlying assumption here is that scholarship should influence political and public discourse. I don’t disagree, but that is not why it exists. Building knowledge is not the same a building public awareness and to hinge tenure/promotion on the latter would make a broken system even more broke.

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