Note to aca­d­e­mics. Just read an arti­cle that uses the word “sit­u­at­ed­ness” with­out any good rea­son. Stop invent­ing words when you don’t need to. Espe­cially if you’re in a scarcely estab­lished field that already strug­gles to jus­tify its exis­tence as a unique dis­ci­pline. Invent­ing words doesn’t aid your cause — if any­thing, your weak attempts at estab­lish­ing a jar­gon for your­selves serves only to high­light your ten­u­ous exis­tence out­side the para­me­ters of estab­lished fields. Praxis is where this all falls apart on you, so stop mak­ing up words and go do some real research to back up your mediocre method­olo­gies. When you’re beaten to the punch by both com­mer­cial / non-profit util­i­ties in devel­op­ing not only method­olo­gies but also tools for the same analy­ses you’re flog­ging as your own, it’s time to go and fold back into the dis­ci­plines from whence you came and stop pre­tend­ing to be some­thing new.

*ahem*

Well, that feels bet­ter. But I still need to write about it :(