I have never viewed my public writing and engagement as a distraction from research. I have never even seen them as separate endeavors. Like my position on teaching as part of the research process, I don’t know how to think without thinking across all contexts. A lot of those connections are invisible to other people.Read More “Make it Plain: Research, Dissertations, and Blogging in Plain Talk”
Monthly Archives: August 2014
What Is Left to Say?
In his 1934 essay, “A Negro Nation Within a Nation”, WEB DuBois wrote: The colored people of America are coming to face the fact quite calmly that most white Americans do not like them, and are planning neither for their survival, nor for their definite future if it involves free, self-assertive modern manhood. This doesRead More “What Is Left to Say?”
Public Sociology at ASA14
Like a good sociologist, I joined my tribe in San Francisco this week for the annual American Sociological Association conference. In addition to my usual fare, I conducted a pair of sessions/workshops on public sociology and digital media. I have three social media maxims: be deliberate, be useful, be interesting. Each comes with risks andRead More “Public Sociology at ASA14”