{"id":100,"date":"2010-11-24T14:29:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T19:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=100"},"modified":"2014-04-01T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T16:24:15","slug":"blogging-as-a-social-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2010\/11\/24\/blogging-as-a-social-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging, as a Social Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2010\/11\/24\/blogging-as-a-social-scientist\/blogging\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-104\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-104\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2010\/11\/blogging-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>What makes a social science blogger or blog post unique? Too often, not enough.\u00a0Social scientists who only offer up their personal opinions about the daily news end up being just another voice in the crowded echo chamber. What we need are social science bloggers who can insert\u00a0real\u00a0knowledge and\u00a0the unique\u00a0perspective of their disciplines, data, and insight into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Kelty makes this point (and others) in\u00a0his <a href=\"http:\/\/savageminds.org\/2010\/11\/17\/ckeltys-10-thoughts-on-blogging-in-anthropology\/\">recent post<\/a> about blogging in anthropology. Kelty also offers some great tips on how social scientific bloggers can make more meaningful, substantive contributions. We especially like Kelty&#8217;s suggestion to blog about a journal article you&#8217;ve read recently:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Think,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;how pleased you would be if someone blogged about your research\u2026 This exercise hones two valuable skills: a) the ability to communicate what an article says and why it is important better than the article does itself and b) the ability to do so in a language and tone that flatters the author, provokes your audience to [consider social science] thought, and doesn\u2019t take you longer than a couple of hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does this sound a little\u00a0like our <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/\">citings<\/a> posts? Hopefully so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Think how pleased you would be if someone blogged about your research,&#8221; anthropologist Chris Kelty writes. But, past pleasurable, why might it be important?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,27050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-writing-editing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2010\/11\/blogging.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}