[Air-L] Academics and blogging

[Scott MacLeod]

Hi, Mary-Helen, 

Thanks for your post. I just want to contribute to this thread and AoIR by mentioning two blogs with much about Academics and blogging: 

'Global University' label at World University and School's blog - 
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university - 

'Global University' label at Scott MacLeod's blog - 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university . 

World University and School is Creative Commons' licensed, like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (but not endorsed by MIT OCW), and seeks to become the Harvard / MIT of the internet and in all 7,105 languages and 
242 countries, matriculating our first, undergraduate class online in Google + group video Hangouts, for example - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School . 

I've added your post - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/12/academic-attention-economy/ - to the 'Social Science,' wiki page at WUaS, here - 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Science#World_University_and_School_Links . 

Best, 
Scott 




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On Thu 12/12/13  3:38 PM , Mary-Helen Ward mary-helen.ward at sydney.edu.au sent:
> I know that some members of this list have a strong history of writing
> about academic blogging going back a decade (you're all cited in my
> thesis!), but, like most good ideas, it has taken a while for the world to
> catch up. It seems that writing about academics and blogging is now A
> Thing.
> Given the discussion this week about non-traditional academic writing and
> open source publishing, this might be of interest: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/12/academ
> ic-attention-economy/
> Apart from the authors' work on academic blogging, there are some
> interesting ideas here about open-access publishing and how people find
> articles of interest to them.
> I have mentioned my thesis on twitter a few times, and every time there has
> been a spike in views and downloads. In three months the abstract has been
> viewed over 500 times, and the full document downloaded just over 100
> times.
> Mary-Helen
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