Doing Public Scholarship

A Practical Guide to Media Engagement

Christopher J. Schneider (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

110 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-38605-8 (ISBN)

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Drawing on the author’s own experience, this book offers a short introduction to the field of public sociology, considering the importance of op-eds, the challenges of engaging with news media, questions of public understanding, negative consequences of public sociology and the implications of social media for conducting public sociology.

A basic premise of public scholarship is making academic work and related ideas accessible and available to publics. Media engagement, whether interviews with news journalists, or the use of hashtags, is a necessary feature of any public scholarship. Media formats play a fundamental and interactive role in how people ultimately come to view and understand the social world, having had a discernable influence on election outcomes, responses to global pandemics, and so on. The question is not whether scholars should engage with media but how to do so. Drawing on fifteen years of experience that includes hundreds of print, radio, and television news interviews, dozens of published opinion pieces, and the use of social media for public engagement, this book outlines a practical, easy-to-follow approach to doing public sociology in media that consists of, and brings together, interrelated forms of media engagement. This book also offers some advice pertaining to career advancement and provides strategies to avoid negative experiences. Doing Public Scholarship will be of general interest to those wanting to go public with their research.

Christopher J. Schneider, Ph.D., is an award-winning professor of sociology at Brandon University. He has published six books and over 100 scholarly papers, opinion pieces, reviews, and essays. A frequent contributor to media, his work has appeared in more than 600 news segments and reports including The New York Times and The Washington Post.

About the Author

List of Figures

Preface

Introduction: Toward a Mediated Public Scholarship

1 Crafting a Postjournalism Research Agenda

2 Interacting with News Journalists

3 The Op-Ed Game

4 Some Negative Consequences of Doing Public Scholarship (with Erick Laming)

5 E-Public Sociology and Public Engagement

Conclusion: Mediated Public Scholarship

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	08.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Sociology
Zusatzinfo	2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	740 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-38605-3 / 1032386053
ISBN-13	978-1-032-38605-8 / 9781032386058
Zustand	Neuware