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    10 Reasons Professors Should Start Writing BuzzFeed Articles

    Why do profs keep writing books? Go where the people are! Write what the people read! This is the manifesto for Buzzademia: a new Like-reviewed journal for Buzzfeed-style scholarship.

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    10. Your C.V. needs More Listicles

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    [Sidebar: requesting new word for Listicles that sounds less like testicles: suggestions Listballs or Listaries?]

    9. The power of espiteMEMEs

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    8. No one Believes that "The Next 450 Pages will Blow Your Mind!"

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    7. Open Access is useless without the Social Share Buttons

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    6. MOAR GIFS!

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    5. Footnotes are not clickbait

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    4. Your fellow scholars only read to your citation info to add to their bibliographies!

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    3. Helps fellow scholars more quickly access the "Which Hogwarts House are you in? quiz

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    2. The RT is the purest form of peer-review

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    1. Likes are more likely than tenure

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