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Originally Posted by Funka Genocide
I was referring to the twittreature thing, your little tiff over scientific jargon semantics wasn't too bad. Like I bet college kids are just apeshit over new buzzwords like that. Ugh
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Twitterature isn't a buzzword, it's a title of a single book where they shortened a lot of classics into twitter form. I haven't read it and it's been panned by everyone but that quote came out which is funny.
But that is the only place I've seen the term.
Academia hates Kerouac like the fucking plague though. I guess you can consider Kerouac a buzzword for suck.
Aside from that I don't think there are real buzzwords in academia, at least any fields I'm in. We tend to discourage them because it suppresses debate. The most buzzwordy things get is actualyl when the media reports academic work to everyone else and uses buzzwords to simplify concepts for those outside the field. So it's kind of the opposite really, I find media and thus general populace by association far more buzzword inclined.