Knowledge Construction and Writing Online
Exploring Digital Academic Discourse and Practices in Hong Kong
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Are academics ready to go digital?
This piece is originally published as a letter in the South China Morning Post on July 13, 2020: https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3092631/coronavirus-made-working-home-new-normal-are-hong-kong-academics At the end of my last lecture before the Lunar New Year, I wished my students well and jokingly said, “Let’s hope that I don’t have to teach in a mask when we return from the… Read more
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Why academics blog and why we blog
Blogging is nothing new to academics. Scholarly discussion of academics’ blogging practices dates back to over 10 years ago. Jarreau’s (2015) diagram below summarizes the main reasons for scientists to blog: A similar listing of reasons can be found here (12 reasons: https://mindbursts.com/2014/02/24/academicblog/) A recent edited volume by Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn and Pat Thomson… Read more
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