Social Sciences

» 38 reasons why you should blog about your research The Sociological Imagination

Source: http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/13910

38 reasons why you should blog about your research

By Sociological Imagination on August 29, 2013 ? ( 35 )

It helps you become more clear about your ideas.
It gives you practice at presenting your ideas for a non-specialist audience.
It increases your visibility within academia.
It increases your visibility outside academia and makes it much easier for journalists, campaigners and practitioners to find you.
It increases your visibility more than a static site and allows
people who find you to get an overall sense of your academic interests.
It?s a great way of making connections & finding potential collaborators.
It can provide an archive of your thoughts, ideas and reactions which can later be incorporated into more formal work.
It makes it easier for people to find your published work and increases the likelihood they will read and cite it.
Its informality and immediate accessibility can help make writing
part of your everyday life rather than being a source of stress and
anxiety.
Its a great way to promote events and call for papers. Particularly if you blog regularly and your blog is connected to Twitter.
It helps ensure you can continue to develop strands of thought
which, for now, don?t have any practical implications but might at some
point in the future.
It encourages you to reflexively interrogate and organise your work,
drawing out emergent themes and placing isolated snippets of commentary
into shared categories.
It allows you to procrastinate for a further 10 to 20 minutes before going back to NVivo in a useful(ish) way.
It helps you build a community around your ideas and interests ? Kath McNiff
It allows you to start a conversation that other researchers can join using comments ? Kath McNiff
It?s a tremendous way to access additional relevant information/sources through the connections you make ? @drdjwalker
It can also be a great way to increase your sample size by crowd
sourcing contributions and through public scrutiny help prepare you for
the peer review process when the time comes to publish your work
? @drdjwalker
It?s a great way to get international and cross-disciplinary input and reflections on your research ? @jess1ecat
It?s a fabulous way to give back to the research community by
providing links and resources for other researchers, give and you shall
receive ? @jess1ecat
Reciprocity through blogging and Twitter shares builds your profile
but importantly forges lasting connections to fellow researchers
? @jess1ecat
It allows you to publish ideas immediately without waiting two years
while things go through peer review and more peer review and wait in a
publishing queue ? @CelebYouthUK
It?s fun ? @CelebYouthUK
It?s a faster way to get your research findings out. Journal/book
publishing and the peer-review/editing process can take FOREVER
? @ajlusc
Because C Wright Mills would have probably been a blogger. If not, he would at the very least have been a fan ? @ajlusc
It is an exercise in disciplined writing. Stuff that doesn?t get
used in the bigger thesis project, published papers, and the like, can
be glossed for a blog and thrown out for ?collision? with others? ideas.
That?s how better ideas get formulated ? Ibrar
It makes you a better writer ? @drfigtree
It allows raw uncensored ideas to be creatively expressed before stymied by a prolonged peer review process ? @DrBenKoh
It allows research findings to be put out there in a format that
participants can access, and are actually likely to read ? Matthew
Hanchard
You have control of the publishing process ? @DrHelenKara
It?s a way to publish information about all aspects of research
which formal publishing methods won?t accept, whether because it?s too
short, too partial, too controversial, or for some other reason ?
@DrHelenKara
Keeping your own blog can be a daunting prospect, but that?s not the
only way: many bloggers are more than happy to accept a ?guest? blog on
a subject which would be of interest to their readers ? @DrHelenKara
It helps to be up-to-date with new findings in your discipline, and often with findings in other fields ? @udadisisuperior
It?s a means to be FOUND. People google those words and ta-da! ? @everythingabili
It forces you to think of your ideas in simple language that can be
easily articulated. It?s communication practice. ? @everythingabili
You will have MORE IDEAS ? GUARANTEED. The process of blogging
almost always sparks off more ideas. How could it not?
? @everythingabili
No need to study in isolation if you are a distance learning
student, blogging is one way to network, share ideas and your studies
with fellow students around the world ? Lucy Bodenham
Over time, a blog has helped me to develop more jargon-free and even
poetic writing. I have returned to academic publication with a better
language with which to express myself ? Kip jones
Blogging helps keep your profile out there if you are experiencing a gap between publications ? Jeff Craig

Any suggestions for more reasons? Put them in the comments box and
I?ll add them to the list & note who they came from. If you?re on
Twitter please include your twitter handle.

» 38 reasons why you should blog about your research The Sociological Imagination

- How To Use Blogging And Microblogging To Disseminate Your Research
Source: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/how-to-use-blogging-and-microblogging-to-disseminate-your-research How to use blogging and microblogging to disseminate your researchTweeting or blogging can help you publicize your work and expand your networkBy...

- Five New Tools Added To The Toolbox! | Connected Researchers
Source: http://connectedresearchers.com/five-new-tools-added-to-the-toolbox/ Five new tools added to the toolbox! Posted on November 3, 2015 Five tools today added to the list today to hep researchers in their every day tasks. Find the complete...

- Impact Of Social Sciences ? An Antidote To Futility: Why Academics (and Students) Should Take Blogging / Social Media Seriously
Source: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/10/26/why-academics-and-students-should-take-blogging-social-media-seriously/ An antidote to futility: Why academics (and students) should take blogging / social media seriously Blogs are...

- Strategies To Improve Visibility And Impact Through Social Media | Social Media For Learning
Source: http://socialmediaforlearning.com/2013/10/19/strategies-to-improve-visibility-and-impact-through-social-media/ Strategies to improve visibility and impact through social mediaPosted on October 19, 2013 by Sue Beckingham As...

- Strategies To Improve Visibility And Impact Through Social Media | Social Media 4 Us
Source: http://socialmedia4us.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/strategies-to-improve-visibility-and-impact-through-social-media/ Strategies to improve visibility and impact through social media Posted on October 19, 2013 by Sue Beckingham...

Social Sciences