Times Higher looks at academic blogs

The Times Higher has run a feature on academic blogs today: By the blog: academics tread carefully.

As a publishing model blogs are the polar opposite of the traditional academic mainstay with its third-party peer review, which perhaps explains the relatively slow uptake by staff in this sector, but some academics are finding real value in blogging, using it to support academic endeavours such as public engagement and scholarly discourse.

Intute blogger, Paul Ayres (one of the contributors to the THE article) has run a series of blog posts this week, encouraging more academics to consider the potential benefits of blogging:

• The State of the Academic Blogosphere
• Why blog – part 1
• Why blog – part 2

A previous feature on Our Favourite Social Science blogs was run as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science in March 2008.

Is it right for academics to tread carefully in this arena?

What do you think?

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