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1/ In defense of pop culture in intellectual pursuits

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2/ I presented this paper by @msalganik, @peterdodds, @duncanjwatts (2006) in a doctoral-level methods course on network analysis at UCLA. Authors are highly respected, paper has over a thousand citations:

3/ It would’ve been a disservice to Salganik et al (2006) if slide titles weren’t used for punny references to pop song titles or the music biz:

4/ Similarly, this seemed the only appropriate closing slide:

5/ This wasn’t to be glib, wasn’t done because I didn’t get the Gini coefficient “success inequality” measure or the implications of social influence as a counterintuitive factor shaping cultural markets

6/ I use pop culture in my work because: (1) I take my research seriously, but don’t take myself too seriously; (2) it’s an artifact worthy of analysis; (3) academia need not be bleak and humorless

7/ As a sociology PhD student, I aspire to Salganik et al’s empirical ingenuity and methodological rigor. But, I also watch #VanderpumpRules in my spare time #SorryNotSorry

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