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Culture clashes and conference etiquette

wcrawford | June 19, 2009

Here I am on ScienceBlogs, thanks to the loose definition of "science" that lets in "information science" and the even looser definition of "information science" that includes whatever it is I do. And yesterday I found myself wondering whether I had any business being here--although the thought was more along the lines of "Holy cr*p! What's going on here?" The situation had nothing to do with this blog--and a lot, I think, to do with culture clashes along the lines of that half-century-old notion of the Two Cultures. The trigger The trigger was a cluster of conversations taking place on…