[Air-l] Practice vs Scholarship

[Alexis Turner]

Well, perhaps that's why activism and other things in general have such an 
"impressive" success rate - they've "moved on" before they've actually had a 
chance to analyze and consider what they're doing, what's working, what's 
not....
-Alexis


On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Kevin Sherman wrote:

::Thanks everybody for your input.  It has been very helpful and
::encouraging, encouragement I really needed at this point in time.  
:: 
::I posted this new vs old activism question to a list owned by both
::scholars and activists and the activists pretty much said [snip] 
::"while you scholars are busy studying
::activism, we're busy actually doing it.  by the time your findings come
::out, we've moved on to new things."  
:: 
::But isn't that the plight of the scholar no matter what they
::study...especially insofar as technology-related topics are concerned? 
::Should I take that response to mean that I shouldn't bother studying
::activism--in other words, are we talking to ourselves or are we making a
::difference in the lives of those who practice what we study?  Guess I'm
::having a bit of a...moment.  sorry.
:: 
::Kevin Sherman