{"id":2208,"date":"2013-09-21T19:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T00:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2013-09-21T19:38:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T00:38:27","slug":"theres-research-on-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2013\/09\/21\/theres-research-on-that\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s Research on That!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anyone tracking both popular and academic writing knows that media reports often miss out on the best, most directly relevant research on the story. At TSP, we’ve batted our heads against this wall for years. Yes,\u00a0Citings and Sitings<\/a>\u00a0reports on social scientists in the press and the\u00a0Reading List<\/a>\u00a0brings new research discoveries to light, but we’ve lacked a forum to make the connection more explicitly — to point to good work that\u00a0should\u00a0<\/em>be cited in the news stories of the day.<\/p>\n

So, like many of our readers, we find ourselves spitting coffee each morning and shouting, “There’s Research on That!” when the news somehow misses a perfectly on-point expert and study. [This ain’t necessarily the journo’s fault, of course. One of my favorite writers at the\u00a0Times\u00a0<\/em>recently emailed to\u00a0ask, “Can you send me your article from\u00a0JournalX<\/em>?\u00a0Costs like 80 bucks to get.”] While we can’t take down everyone else’s paywalls (can we, Jon?), we can<\/em>\u00a0point readers to first-rate research on the day’s issues. And we’ll do so in a brand new TSP feature titled (what else?),\u00a0There’s Research on That<\/a>! From Evan Stewart<\/a> of our grad board:<\/p>\n

In our continuing quest to bring great social science to everyone, TSP is rolling out our latest blog project\u2014There’s Research on That!, where we offer up great research from across our fields that speaks to the big events of the day. For journalists, TROT is a great place to find an interviewee or a new perspective on reporting. For general readers, TROT is a place to discuss current events and find some great book recommendations that are sure to impress at the next cocktail party. For sociologists, TROT posts can spark conversations about where our research connects with the real world. Of course, we welcome continued suggestions for pieces in the comments and on Twitter (hashtag #TROT, of course)!<\/em><\/p>\n

We’re hoping to make this a quick-hitting and timely feature, so we’ll keep the posts short and spread the word on social media. We hope There’s Research on That<\/a>\u00a0informs, inspires, and provokes you — and that you’ll cite your\u00a0own<\/em> favorite research in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone tracking both popular and academic writing knows that media reports often miss out on the best, most directly relevant research on the story. At TSP, we’ve batted our heads against this wall for years. Yes,\u00a0Citings and Sitings\u00a0reports on social scientists in the press and the\u00a0Reading List\u00a0brings new research discoveries to light, but we’ve lacked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}