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This chapter examines a double standard in academic gossip; it is used by outsiders as a way to get and spread information and ideas about the profession, while being invisibly used (while externally denounced) by insiders as a way of attacking critics’ credibility.
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Adkins, K. (2017). Failure to Communicate: Gossip as Institutional Conflict. In: Gossip, Epistemology, and Power . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47840-1_4
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