In light of Facebook’s redesign and apparent mission to better streamline and present content, it would be interesting to see if Facebook is having a positive impact on academia. With all the talk questioning the academic impact of online services such as Twitter, it is important to discuss Facebook in the same fashion. A few posts ago I assessed what I thought were some of Twitter’s strengths and weaknesses as a means of expanding academic discourse. Like Twitter, is there the possibility that Facebook has the potential to facilitate the spread of information amongst historians? Certainty, but what is really important is whether Facebook’s growing content and members can be active participants any valid history orientated debate.
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