{"id":790,"date":"2016-10-31T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/?p=790"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:26:15","slug":"seriously-academic-blog-post-anon-tattooed-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/uncategorized\/seriously-academic-blog-post-anon-tattooed-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously Academic Blog Post — Anon & Tattooed Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do feel inclined to take a side in this argument, but not without some gentle critique. \u00a0This criticism is only necessary because we need to stay on the defense constantly if we are to be Serious Academics\u2122. \u00a0On the fifth page of Gannon’s article he lists the ways his scholarship is relevant to the “outside” world through digital means. He compares this work on history and racism done in blog mediums or twitter to serious academic work. \u00a0I’m inclined to take that stance as well, only I need to point out that work is\u00a0still\u00a0<\/em>different that academic writing. \u00a0The nature of the beast will not require as much time, it will not require peer review, it will allow you to “play” more with standard academic procedures. \u00a0Writing for a WordPress blog, or even the Chronicle is simply going to be a different kind of writing than to your field’s leading academic journal.<\/p>\n

This entire conversation seems deeply rooted in the humanities. \u00a0We\u00a0<\/em>are expected to interact with the public, keep our research interesting as well as accessible. \u00a0Historians, if you uncover some cool shit from a Civil War archive, you better be ready to write it up for a public audience [in addition to the research project you are working on for your new book, of course]. \u00a0Do mathematicians need to do this? \u00a0Do chemists feel the pressure to take a professional but public twitter feed? \u00a0Honestly I love the idea of accessible research on blogs and twitter. \u00a0I’ve done it myself. \u00a0I\u00a0have\u00a0<\/em>instagrammed documents I’ve found in archives. \u00a0I only feel it necessary to point out this pressure isn’t felt equally.<\/p>\n

The pressure takes us back to Anon’s concerns, we feel it because we need jobs. \u00a0We need funding. \u00a0You name it, we need it. \u00a0But even then, I only feel for their outrage on a surface level. \u00a0If you don’t want to be on twitter, then don’t. \u00a0But then you can’t be upset when it’s a “requirement” and you don’t have one. \u00a0It’s kind of like you didn’t want a pair of heelys, you were fine with your roller skates. \u00a0But all your friends have heelys and they’re able to roll down the hallways at school, but you still have to sit outside and put your skates on one shoelace at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do feel inclined to take a side in this argument, but not without some gentle critique. \u00a0This criticism is only necessary because we need to stay on the defense constantly if we are to be Serious Academics\u2122. \u00a0On the fifth page of Gannon’s article he lists the ways his scholarship is relevant to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}