Why Good Writing Gets Ignored: What Makes Knowledge Reusable | Interpreting Coordinates Ch. 7
Interpreting Coordinates The Human Role in an Algorithmic World PART I · Chapter 7 Not Because It Is Wrong, but Because It Cannot Be Reused Before asking whether knowledge is right or wrong, we must first ask whether it can remain. People often ask the same questions: “Why does such a good piece of writing disappear?” “Why is there no response, even after so much research?” “Why does a carefully thought-out text go uncited?” Most answers are emotional: bad timing, unlucky exposure, a changed algorithm. But this chapter focuses on a different structural reason. Within system-mediated retrieval contexts, much knowledge can become difficult to retrieve or reuse not because it is incorrect, but because its position, relation, or conditions of reuse are unclear.¹ 1. Knowledge Does Not Disappear Because of Quality For a long time, we believed this: Good knowledge survives Deep writing is eventually recognized Truth reveals itself over time This belief was easier to sustain when the circulati...