===== 🔄 Change  =====

**Change** refers to any meaningful transformation in ideas, practices, systems, or structures within the academic, scientific, or institutional landscape.

It can be:
  * **Theoretical** – shifts in dominant models or paradigms.
  * **Technological** – adoption of new tools, methods, or platforms.
  * **Cultural** – redefinition of values, ethics, or priorities.
  * **Structural** – reforms in governance, funding, access, or evaluation systems.

==== 🧠 Types of Change ====
  * **Incremental** – Gradual improvements (e.g. better peer review guidelines).
  * **Disruptive** – Sudden and radical shifts (e.g. AI displacing traditional authorship).
  * **Performative** – Superficial change meant to appear responsive (e.g. rebranding committees).
  * **Catalytic** – Triggered by an external pressure or visionary actor (*see [[catalyst|Catalyst]]*).

==== ⚠️ Resistance to Change ====
Change is often:
  * **Blocked by gatekeeping**.
  * **Diluted by bureaucracy**.
  * **Feared by institutions reliant on stability and prestige**.
  * **Rebranded as reform** to maintain control without altering power dynamics.

==== 🔍 In Practice ====
> An academic society publishes a review praising AI but implements no change in its own practices — this is *rhetoric without reform*.

==== 📎 Related Terms ====
  * [[catalyst|Catalyst]]
  * [[disruption|Disruption]]
  * [[academic_theater|Academic Theater]]
  * [[gatekeeping|Gatekeeping]]
  * [[careerism|Careerism]]

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**Bottom line**: *True change questions foundations — not just decorates the façade.*