Well, not quite. But Alex Halavais sees a great apologia for academic blogging in C. Wright Mills' argument for why sociologists must keep journals.
Then Alex had to go off and break Wikipedia like that.
« Going to Colorado | Main | In Colorado »
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c74ed53ef00d83421562b53ef
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference C. Wright Mills on blogging:
» Why should an academic blog? from Projectories
Last spring I read a passage from Mills in a course called the research process. Today I ran across the... [Read More]
I'm a research director at the Institute for the Future, a think tank in Silicon Valley, where I conduct research on the future of science and technology. I'm also an Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Saïd Business School, where I work with students on projects related to the future technology and strategy. I'm also a visiting scholar in Stanford's HPST program. More professional details are available in my c.v.
In my free time I'm working on a book on the end of cyberspace, tentatively titled The End of Cyberspace. My first book, Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions, was published by Stanford University Press in 2002.
The banner is from a picture taken at Hidden Villa, a farm and conference center in the hills above Silicon Valley, March 2009.

Recent Comments