Event Title
Lightning Round: Transform Your Life (Lose Weight! Grow Hair! Not) Through Academic Blogging
Location
Moakley Auditorium
Start Time
10-5-2018 1:50 PM
End Time
10-5-2018 3:00 PM
Description
Publishing in peer-reviewed journals is all well and good, but: They reach very few people—just academic specialists; Their format is constrained—few visuals and formally written; They aren’t accessible to most people because of paywalls; They are soooo last-millennium/century/decade!
But, what other options are there for academics with something important to say? For me, blogging has transformed my professional life. I write weekly for a group blog called Fit is a Feminist Issue, which has about 20,000 followers. We address issues of health, fitness, aging, body image, discrimination, access, etc. within a feminist framework and from an interdisciplinary perspective. I will talk about how blogging has opened up my intellectual world: I am free to write about new topics in a low-stakes environment. I have made connections with other scholars and been invited to do collaborative projects. And, I enjoy writing and thinking more than I ever have in my career.
Lightning Round: Transform Your Life (Lose Weight! Grow Hair! Not) Through Academic Blogging
Moakley Auditorium
Publishing in peer-reviewed journals is all well and good, but: They reach very few people—just academic specialists; Their format is constrained—few visuals and formally written; They aren’t accessible to most people because of paywalls; They are soooo last-millennium/century/decade!
But, what other options are there for academics with something important to say? For me, blogging has transformed my professional life. I write weekly for a group blog called Fit is a Feminist Issue, which has about 20,000 followers. We address issues of health, fitness, aging, body image, discrimination, access, etc. within a feminist framework and from an interdisciplinary perspective. I will talk about how blogging has opened up my intellectual world: I am free to write about new topics in a low-stakes environment. I have made connections with other scholars and been invited to do collaborative projects. And, I enjoy writing and thinking more than I ever have in my career.