Sociological Images has achieved remarkable success by virtually any metric. Not only is it the most viewed Community Page on The Society Pages, but the website also receives around 500,000 visits every month, is ‘liked’ by almost 30,000 people on Facebook, followed by over 15,000 on Twitter, and has had work appear in notable news sites including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, TIME, the Guardian, Mother Jones, the National Review, and the Atlantic,. In this episode, Lisa Wade, Associate Professor at Occidental College and editor of Sociological Images, stops by to talk about her work. We discuss some of her favorite and most popular posts on the site, her work writing sociologically for other popular outlets, and finding time to produce research and write recently completed Sociology of Gender textbook all while managing the site.
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Friday Roundup (Monday Edition): Oct. 14, 2013 » The Editors' Desk — October 14, 2013
[...] “Lisa Wade on Sociological Images,” with Kyle Green. Finding time in a packed schedule, Lisa Wade talks about her favorite posts, her inspirations, and how she finds the time to broaden several hundred thousand sociological imaginations every month. [...]
Friday Roundup: Oct. 18, 2013 » The Editors' Desk — October 18, 2013
[...] Lisa Wade on Sociological Images on Office Hours [...]
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[…] you’d like a sneak peek behind the scenes, I enjoyed a nice chat with Kyle Green about the site that we recorded for The Society Pages […]
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