Scholarly vs. Activist Identities: What standards should govern academic engagement in the public sphere?

Sasley, Brent E. and Sucharov, Mira (2014) Scholarly vs. Activist Identities: What standards should govern academic engagement in the public sphere? Impact of Social Sciences Blog (18 Aug 2014). Website.

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Social media allows scholars to discuss and debate current affairs like never before, but these media can also hinder a productive and thoughtful academic exchange. Brent E. Sasley and Mira Sucharov examine and assess one academic’s tweets on the Israel-Gaza crisis and the questions raised over his style and approach. Scholars should be encouraged to express moral outrage, but given the speed at which Twitter operates, scholars may need to also pay particular attention to how messages are being received.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences
Additional Information:	© 2014 The Author(s) CC BY 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	29 Mar 2017 15:28
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 19:25
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/71531

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