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 […]
How to Carefully Choose Useless Titles for Academic Writing
An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they are looking for. Without embedded cues, your work will sit undisturbed on other scholars’ PDF libraries, or languish unread among hundreds of millions of other documents on the Web. That must be what what we want, based on on what we do.
The Use (or Is It Abuse?) of Social Media in Social Science
A new study of an admittedly small group suggests the public may be getting a little twitchy about the use of their personal messages for public investigation.
Round-up of Recent Social Science Research
The following articles–ranging from zombie panics to Scottish independence–are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. All the articles linked to are free to read for a limited period.
Two Myths and One Truth About Congressional Testimony
Impact is all the rage right now, but what happens when you’re finally given a path to a bully pulpit? Testimony is only the tip of the iceberg – there’s much more opportunity if you look a little deeper.
The Ongoing Evolution of Universities into Newsrooms
Social media and alternative ways of measuring academic impact are helping turn universities into giant newsrooms, argues Maxine Newlands. That’s not necessarily bad, and it may be inevitable.
A Perceptive Outsider Always Looking In: Stuart Hall, 1932-2014
The permanent outsider who helped pry open Britain’s eyes to the field of cultural studies has died at age 82.
Don’t Block Academic Blogging, Celebrate It
Stephen Saideman argues that efforts to regulate blogging in order to preserve constructive debate instead shuts down a promising avenue for … constructive debate.
Surveying the Terrain of Science’s Public Outreach Past
The campaign to communicate the impact of the social sciences has been compared to the era of the Bodmer report. Here’s a quick primer on that 1985 effort and some of the history of publicizing science in the UK.
