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Book Review: What is Digital Sociology? by Neil Selwyn

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In What is Digital Sociology?, Neil Selwyn offers a new overview of digital sociology, advocating for its mainstream acceptance as a valuable expansion of sociological inquiry, while dispelling the misconception that it is a entirely new or radically different form of sociology. This is an excellent introduction to digital sociology, recommends Huw Davies, that will be particularly helpful for … Continued

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Business, commercialisation, COVID-19, Featured, Impact, Impact of social science, post-coronavirus, recovery

To build a better world after COVID-19, now is the time to transform how we think about social science commercialisation

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As the world emerges from the COVID-19 lockdown many opportunities have arisen to rethink how and for whom our societies operate. In this post, Julia Black argues that social sciences can play a unique role in the post-COVID-19 recovery by forging new relationships with business and commerce and outlines how initiatives, such as the Aspect … Continued

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Decolonisation, Eurocentrism, Featured, research communication, scicomms, science communication

Anti-racist science communication starts with recognising its globally diverse historical footprint

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Science Communication is often presented as a unique response to and offshoot of the prevalence of western science in modern societies. Lindy Orthia and Elizabeth Rasekoala argue against this notion, suggesting that a temporally and culturally limited understanding of science communication, in turn promotes a limited discipline of science communication and serves to perpetuate a … Continued

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COVID-19, Featured, Post-pandemic, research agenda, Research funding, Research policy

A post-pandemic research agenda

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As governments refocus their attentions from managing COVID-19 to planning for the aftermath and recovery from the pandemic. Steven Hill, draws on the work of the economists Mariana Mazzucato and Kate Raworth, to suggests now is the time to rethink research policy along more equitable and sustainable lines. This post first appeared on Steven Hill’s personal blog. … Continued

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Book Reviews, Data, Dataviz, Featured, Inforgraphics

Book Review: The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications by Murray Dick

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In The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications, Murray Dick offers a new cultural history of the infographic, tracing its emergence and development in Britain from the eighteenth century. The book succeeds in offering an account of an evolving media form, showing the infographic to be a contradictory tool, one developed to … Continued

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