{"id":1372,"date":"2008-12-01T17:16:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T22:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2008-12-01T17:16:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T22:16:30","slug":"seeking-your-input-engaged-scholardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/12\/01\/seeking-your-input-engaged-scholardom\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Your Input &#8211; &#8220;Engaged&#8221; Scholardom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn2.google.com\/images?q=tbn:AoIGEyHyhFygPM:http:\/\/johnmallencommunications.typepad.com\/real_world_communications\/files\/audience20bw2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>At the gracious invitation of the wonderful and savvy Renee Cramer (see her prescient GWP post, <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=609\">&#8220;This Bridge Called Barack&#8221;<\/a>, from February), I am giving a workshop at Drake University on Friday on the topic of being an engaged scholar.  Engaged, as in, with a public outside of the academy.  As always, I&#8217;m encouraging folks to try to FRAME issues in public debate rather than simply react when others do the framing for us, and rely on shoddy evidence to support their claims.<\/p>\n<p>And so I thought I&#8217;d ask GWP readers who have had experiences &#8220;crossing over&#8221; from a more academically-inclined universe to more &#8220;pop&#8221; or public writing and speaking.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What have you learned from your experience circulating in a more public realm?<\/li>\n<li>Any advice to other scholars who wish to do the same?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>And if you have not (YET!) done some of that crossover activity but want to, what holds you back?\u00c2\u00a0 Please tell me, in comments.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the gracious invitation of the wonderful and savvy Renee Cramer (see her prescient GWP post, &#8220;This Bridge Called Barack&#8221;, from February), I am giving a workshop at Drake University on Friday on the topic of being an engaged scholar. Engaged, as in, with a public outside of the academy. As always, I&#8217;m encouraging folks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4124,21941],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academe","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}