After a long period of monopolising academic discourse, European universities went into decline as classical scholasticism, which was primarily inward and backward looking, gave way to the ideas of Enlightenment. Intellectual development moved outside the walled gardens of academia, because… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Academia 2.0’
Continuous Publishing and Being an Open-Source Academic
One of my favourite academic blogs is Understanding Society. Written by Daniel Little, Chancellor for the University of Michigan-Dearborn, it covers an extraordinarily broad range of theoretical topics and sustains the rigour of serious academic writing while nonetheless being written in a… Read More ›
The Future of Scholarly Publishing
What does the future hold for scholarly publishing? Most would agree that the present system is unsustainable yet there remains little consensus on what could and should replace it. Patrick Dunleavy at the LSE Impact Blog makes a compelling case… Read More ›
The Sociological Craft Project
In the appendix to Sociological Imagination, entitled On Intellectual Craftsmanship, C. Wright Mills advocates keeping a file or journal within which to record your ideas. He argues that doing so: encourages you to capture ‘fringe-thoughts’: various ideas which may be by-products… Read More ›
What is digital sociology? An interview with Noortje Marres
What is Digital Sociology? You can find out more about Noortje’s work here.
Interested in Digital Sociology?
The British Sociological Association’s new Digital Sociology group aims: To identify and disseminate best practice in the use of digital tools by sociologists. To develop and promote specifically sociological modes of inquiry into digital media use. To develop and promote… Read More ›
Can academics manage without Twitter?
Following David Hill’s post about joining Twitter, I’ve been thinking again about joining Twitter. A few months I posted about Twitter. In that post I spoke about my concerns of constant connection and the work it seemed to require, amongst other things. I’m not… Read More ›
“Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?” (part 2)
The original version of this post got an interesting comment yesterday. We hope the author won’t mind us reposting the comment as a new post. It was a quick content analysis of the answers in the original post. So… why do you… Read More ›
Continuous publishing has changed my experience of developing ideas
A few months ago Pat Lockley and I wrote an article for the LSE Impact Blog about continuous publishing. This was actually a phrase introduced by the site’s editor for the title but it perfectly captured what we were trying to get at. Given that… Read More ›
Academic blogging – both/and rather than either/or
How do you feel about academic blogging? If you are reading this then, chances are, you feel reasonably well inclined towards it. However if you are an academic blogger then you will undoubtedly be aware that many people are not so well… Read More ›
“What on earth will I tweet about?”: Feeling Comfortable with Social Media
“What on earth will I tweet about?” from Mark Carrigan
“Ultimately, if I’m honest, I do it because it’s fun”
In this short podcast recorded at a Digital Change GPP discussion event earlier this year, Eleonora Belfiore discusses her experience of using social media as an academic.
Multi-author blogging resources for academics
An introduction to multi-author blogging Publishing on the web as a researcher Single author vs multi-author blogging “Blogging is quite simply, one of the most important things that an academic should be doing right now” Multi-author academic blogs are the… Read More ›
Advice on introducing Twitter to academics
Twitter has a definite image problem. It first penetrated the public consciousness in a way which has left it defined by celebrities and, particularly for academics, this is unattractive. If you want to persuade academics to use it, it’s important… Read More ›
Academia 2.0
“Academia 2.0” on Bundlr
Getting Started: Social Media for Academics
“Getting Started: Social Media for Academics” on Bundlr
What does it mean to be a public intellectual in a digital age?
“What does it mean to be a public intellectual in a digital age?” on Bundlr
A quick thought about Jiscmail
Do you administer a JISCMail? I administer two: asexuality-discuss and socialmedia-discuss. Though I’m bad at administering them and, partly for this reason, nothing much happens on them. This is a shame because my initial motivation still stands: I thought there was inadequate dialogue… Read More ›
Towards Digital Sociology: an interview with Deborah Lupton
To start the interview, could you say a little about how you came to be so professionally active online? It was a combination of factors, some going back a long time, some more recent. I have been interested in the… Read More ›
Twitter for academics
What’s the point of Twitter? Twitter has an image problem. It first penetrated the public consciousness in a way which has left it defined by celebrities and, particularly for academics, this is unattractive. However the academic twittersphere (for lack of a better… Read More ›
A guide to curation tools for researchers
Do you suffer from information overload? Do you find it difficult to organise and process the things you find online so that you can apply them productively in your day-to-day working life? If so then curation tools could transform your experience of… Read More ›
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs & the Social Media that Fulfill Them
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, & the Social Media that Fulfill ‘Em by Erica Glasier. Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License. (Hat Tip: Sound & Fury)
Would C Wright Mills have kept a blog?
After a particularly inspiring session at the BSA Conference this year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of C. Wright Mills’ death, I have started to read The Sociological Imagination again. It was a standard introductory book for sociology students and… Read More ›
The Arrogance of Publishers vs. Academic Culture – Why the Outcome Is Virtually Certain
“Technologists also believe that publishing is transportable — anyone can be a publisher. All you need are some basic skills, access to a blogging platform, and some determination. While for certain forms of expression this can be true — this… Read More ›
The Transformation of Academic Practice – Interview with Martin Weller, author of the Digital Scholar
In this podcast I talk to Martin Weller, author of the Digital Scholar, about the changes which digital technology is bringing about within academia and where they might ultimately lead.
Social media training resources produced by researchers at the University of Warwick
10 ways researchers can use Twitter Creating a successful online presence Video interviews with Warwick bloggers Google scholar and its citation data Blog readership: build and maintain an audience Open access: what’s in it for you? Blogging about your research:… Read More ›
Academia 2.0
Do ‘prestigious’ journals make academics lazy? An unlikely parallel with the art world Training, teaching or empowering people with social media? A case study of a university’s digital strategy Podcast with Martin Eve about Open Source Academic Publishing The ‘prestige’ of journals in… Read More ›
Tending your ‘ideas garden’
Do you value your ideas? If you’re reading this website then chances are you answered ‘yes’ to that question. Yet unless you record all your ideas I’d argue that you don’t value them. At least not as much as you… Read More ›
Do ‘prestigious’ journals make academics lazy? An unlikely parallel with the art world
In a recent book economist Don Thompson explores the crucial role that branding has in the contemporary art market. With the market skewed by an influx of the ultra-rich seeking something to do with their money, a strange dynamic emerges. As the… Read More ›