Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Witherspoon: We Must Show How We Create a Public Good
In the third annual Campaign for Social Science/SAGE lecture, Sharon Witherspoon said we must show the ways ‘social science can give rise to public benefit’
Applying a Business Model Perspective to Sustainability Solutions
[We’re pleased to welcome Caroline Gauthier of Grenoble Ecole de Management. Professor Gauthier co-authored an article with Bettina Gilomen of Grenoble Ecole de […]
Don’t Sideline Social Science in Mad Dash for Innovation
As Australia’s government focuses on innovation and commercializing research in its academic agenda, it should not forget about the humanities, arts and social sciences.
Book Review: Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream
Christopher Bail: Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. 223 pp. $35.00, hardcover. You can read […]
From Agora to Shopping Mall: Tone-of-Voice Policies, Marketing and the Re-making of British Universities
Tone-of-voice policies raise serious questions about the future of academic freedom in Britain and the extent to which academic labour may come to be subject to the financial and political objectives of the corporate managers that form universities’ leadership.
Remembering the Montreal Massacre, Patricia Allen and the Many Victims of Male Violence
On the 26th anniversary of what has become known as the Montreal Massacre, our Michelle Stack once again commits to confront the ubiquity of interconnected structural violence in its many forms.
Tweet All About It: Using Twitter as an Inexpensive Communication Tool
In recent years, social media has changed the way that companies and customers interact. For many companies, social media platforms like Facebook […]
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Josephine Go Jefferies
Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Josephine Go Jeffries’ examination of how really Big Data may change life in our budding infocracies.
