{"title":"Akademiskt skvaller","authors":"Mats Benner","doi":"10.54807/kp.v23.21649","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Academic gossip is often seen as a vicious expression of academic culture: unproductive surplus energy in a culture of neutrality. In this essay it is argued that gossip is instead a key element in coping with the institutional forces of science, in both modern and post-modern academia.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"22 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21649","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Academic gossip is often seen as a vicious expression of academic culture: unproductive surplus energy in a culture of neutrality. In this essay it is argued that gossip is instead a key element in coping with the institutional forces of science, in both modern and post-modern academia.