Should-Read: Miriam Burstein: Two Cheers for Academic Blogging?

Should-Read: Miriam Burstein: Two Cheers for Academic Blogging?: “The most important changes, it seems to me, have taken place outside individual university folds, not within…

…Blogging has helped some academics loosen up their clogged prose… facilitated networking… promoted public outreach…. The flip side of such popular appeal, of course, is that it may bring the university what we might politely call “unwanted attention,” from all political sides…. Institutions do love their publicity, except when they find it inconvenient, at which point they don’t…. Research universities… have not shown much in the way of similar fondness for anything that carries the faintest whiff of “the popular.”… Teaching-centered campuses… want to know [where] is… the guardian at the academic gate?…