Stanley Milgram sent postcards, Scott Eric Kaufman tracks the spread of a meme across the bloggosphere in an experiment that will be presented at the MLA conference. Kaufman wants to evaluate in what way weblogs
affords scholars the opportunity to easily and enthusiastically cross heretofore closely guarded disciplinary boundaries. Furthermore, it enables academics within increasingly balkanized disciplines to reconnect without necessitating a return of the generalist.
Interesting, and you can join Kaufman’s experiment by doing this:
- Write a blog post with a link to this post on Kaufman’s blog.
- Ask your readers to do the same. Do it! Now! Think of all the poor graduate students out there, for example Scott Eric Kaufman, and their desperate need of data for their research, think of their excel sheets that need to be filled and their diagrams that badly need datapoints, and realize that you - yes, you! - can make a difference and help them, at the same time advancing research. Halleluja!
- Ping Technorati.
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