Blogging and the Republic of Letters

I was interested by this comment by Rhiannon Bury in an interview on Henry Jenkin’s blog Let me close by saying that Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way I disseminate research on fandom. The norm in academia is to analyze our data behind closed doors and not report on it until we have a [...]

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‘Public Intellectuals 2.0′ (2008)

Daniel W. Drezner, ‘Public Intellectuals 2.0′, Chronicle of Higher Education, v 55 n12, Nov 2008, p. B5 My rating: *** Link to article (word doc) Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in the USA and has run his own blog for about [...]

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Academic blogging

Joy Wattawa (2008) ‘Can Academic Blogging Advance Wisdom Research? Defining Wisdom project. My rating: *** I have just found another useful article on the benefits of academic blogging. From the references it appears to have been written this year (2008). In case you were wondering, given this is my second post on academic blogging, I [...]

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‘Boffins blogging’

Andrew Walker and Nicholas Farrelly, ‘Boffins blogging: unlimited review’, ANU Reporter, Summer 2008, p. 34 My rating: **** Here are some extracts from an excellent short analysis of the benefits of the blogosphere for academics. The two writers have been running a blog titled New Mandala since June 2006. I absolutely agree with what the [...]

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