Junior Prof asks two seasoned editors about what role social media plays in promoting a book, whether concerns about institutional prestige are valid and how to avoid being dropped by a university press. More...
29 octobre 2019
26 octobre 2019
‘The Gig Academy’
By Colleen Flaherty. You’ve heard of the gig economy, but what about the Gig Academy? Labor scholar Adrianna Kezar says it has to be resisted in her new book. More...
25 octobre 2019
Academic Book Reviews Deserve Some Respect
If you set your sights on a career in academic administration, even on the top job, you always have to do it, advises S. Georgia Nugent, who suggests some places to start. More...
25 octobre 2019
Asking the Editors: Part 3
24 octobre 2019
Deletable You
Scott McLemee reviews Susan Schneider's Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind. More...
24 octobre 2019
What Is It Like to Be a Cat?
Scott McLemee reviews Understanding Animals: Philosophy for Dog and Cat Lovers by Lars Svendsen. More...
24 octobre 2019
Whistle-Blowing
Scott McLemee reviews the timely Whistleblowers: Honesty in America From Washington to Trump by Allison Stanger. More...
13 octobre 2019
Un livre original sur « Bachelard l’inattendu »
Blog Educpros de Claude Lelièvre. Bachelard a connu une certaine célébrité dans le monde universitaire et même dans le monde pédagogique en raison notamment de la notion de »rupture épistémologique » qui portait sur l’origine de certaines difficultés de la connaissance: une problématique intéressante pour les chercheurs et pour les enseignants . Il a été connu aussi (et peut-être davantage encore) pour ses considérations dans ce qui paraît a priori un autre domaine (bien à tort d’ailleurs) celui de l’imaginaire. Plus...27 septembre 2019
Problems of New Media - The Book
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Problems of New Media - The Book
This reconstruction of Gutenberg-era tech support, as a YouTube video, has been making the rounds over the last few days. I saw it first on Mark Federman's McLuhan blog. More...
20 septembre 2019
Talking About 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Books’
By Joshua Kim. Readers who prefer paper look to books for not only entertainment and edification, but also to enforce a disconnect from the world of screen-based distraction. The paper book becomes both buffer and antidote to the allure of surfing, and the demands of the tweet and the e-mail. More...
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