2252 - Blogging as Public Sociology (Sponsored by the Public Engagement Advisory Committee)

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Description

Blogging has become an increasingly powerful vehicle for sociologists to write about critical social issues for both popular and academic audiences. The traditional repositories for our writing are professional journals or reports. Most often, this type of writing is vetted and judged, and there are fairly clear “guidelines” that frame what and how we write. Blogging takes us out of this realm, providing a freer landscape for writing about what you know and what you care about. Speakers on this panel will discuss why they have chosen to blog and what they blog about, how their blog writing differs from their academic writing, ways to use blogs in and out of the classroom, responses bloggers get from their posts, and ways in which blog writing can potentially lead to other opportunities.

Sub Unit

• Workshops / Professional Development Workshop

Session Organizer

• Mindy L. Fried, Arbor Consulting Partners

Presider

• Mindy L. Fried, Arbor Consulting Partners

Panelists

• Afshan Jafar, Connecticut College

• Shamus Rahman Khan, Columbia University

• Katie Linette Acosta, Georgia State University

• Tristan Bridges, University of California-Santa Barbara