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research out of academia

~beefox

im pretty disabled and so can't go to university to study anything, but im really interested in our interaction with the internet (as an entity) and through the internet (with other people)

so recently i decided im gonna start studying that myself! im not sure where im going to start, but i want to explore such a wide range of things! psychology and linguistics are probably the two fields that have already done a lot of work on this, but i'd also like to study the sociology of it!

idk if i'll find anything that changes the way we interact with the internet, probably not, but i am excited to learn and discover c:

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~walk wrote (thread):

Hi ~beefox! Your post reminded me to

Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer (his biography in Catalan; it is more detailed than the English version)

TLDR; He was very disabled and he lived in a town. He couldn't go to university and learned mathematics in the summer, from the engineering books of his cousin!

He was a well recognized mathematician with many important publications (he dictated them to his mother and sister), but in Spain, legally, he wasn't a researcher. He had to pass the exams to get the bachelor's degree in mathematics (I think it took him a year) and did a PhD. When he finally obtained a researcher position, died 18 days later.

There is a documentary that I haven't seen yet! Let me know if you want to know something else about him :)

~locha wrote (thread):

Hi ~beefox, it's a big subject! Can you give examples of specific questions or cases that interest you? Much like ~commence2897, I'd be happy to help (locha@rawtext.club). I'm a philosopher of mind, but I've specialized in corpus methods, which got me into philosophy of language and had me read some linguistics.

~commence2897 wrote:

hey there - i hope you enjoy learning!

i'm in my final year of linguistics (and communication - so there's a fair amount of sociology), so i'm more than happy to share resources, pointers and what have you over at midnight.pub@sbcv.co.uk.

i'm excited to read whatever you find! academia shouldn't just be for folks at college when so many folks interact with things that can be studied.

~george wrote (thread):

Probably not. But you might! And you will, indeed, learn and discover along the way...

Good luck with your quest!