On the joys of being mis-cited on a regular basis

Every week I get a Google Scholar alert with academic articles that have cited my work. The screenshot above is from a recent one about which I was alerted. No, I'm not going to link to it.

These days, it's pretty obvious that the authors of papers citing my work haven't read my actual words, but only other people's summaries. And, of course, some "scholars" either intentionally or accidentally misinterpret my work for their own ends.

So you end up with monstrosities such as the from a paper which is supposedly entirely based on my "framework" – when I say explicitly that I'm providing no such thing. Also, I find somewhat offensive the idea of a bar chart representing some kind of objective measure of the elements of digital literacies.

Anyway, let's just bear that this in mind when we're holding up academic journals as being some kind of gold standard. Yes, there is fantastic work going on that is published in reputable journals. But there's also a lot of, for want of a better word, shite.