Well, this is great! In my opinion, The Guardian's "labor " pov is like the tradical left " view of the US press, including. NYT, LAT, WP, etcétera. It's scary how the US press has been steadily been steering to the right, that is, to the "1%" point of view On Apr 19, 2013 2:45 PM, "Yosem Companys" <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: alice bell <[email protected]> > > Some of you may have seen the science policy blog we launched at the > Guardian a few months ago. > > I'm keen to use it as a space where we can share and discuss academic > expertise on this area. The Guardian are worried it'll be "too > academic" so it's a bit of a juggle, especially as we find our feet > but we've had great articles from Sheila Jasanoff, Andy Stirling and > Jon Agar recently (linked to below) and I'd love more. > > So, if any of you want to write something, let me know. And do pass > this on. PhD students to Profs, doesn't matter. Pitch me an idea and > we'll see if/ how it might work. A blog format means we can be > reasonably flexible, but I generally say 900 ish words, on something > reasonably topical about the governance of science, with links and > written for a non-specialist but interested reader. Some background on > the whole idea here might help, or just have a poke around at what's > already published: > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/feb/13/political-science-guardian-bloggers > > Worth saying that we only get v small bit of of ad revenue for > Guardian for it, which goes to a pot for public engagement work held > at UCL STS department. So we can't pay - it'd be for fun/ public > engagement only (and yes, I know this is problematic... wasn't > something I entered into lightly). > > Also, I'm an editor at New Left Project in my spare time, and happy to > take longer, more scholarly essays/ book reviews for that too. This > allows you to get out of science bubble, but is limited more > politically ("left" there meaning "of UK Labour"). A couple examples > below with the Guardian stuff. > > Alice > > -- > Dr Alice R Bell. Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex. > http://alicerosebell.wordpress.com/ > -- > > * Andy Stirling - Fear of flying and the hazards of communicating risk > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/feb/14/fear-flying-hazards-communicating-risk > * Jon Agar - Was Margaret Thatcher's ideology rooted in her experience > as a scientist? > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/apr/09/margaret-thatcher-ideology-scientist > * Sheila Jasanoff - Watching the watchers: lessons from the science of > science advice > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/apr/08/lessons-science-advice > * Christopher Shaw - What Zombie Films Can Teach Us About Climate > Change > http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/what_zombie_films_can_teach_us_about_climate_change > * William Davies - Apologists for Power > > http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/apologists_for_power > * Alice Bell - A Life of Galileo: What Brecht can teach us about the > public ownership of science > > http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/a_life_of_galileo > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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