Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Tweet All About It: Using Twitter as an Inexpensive Communication Tool
In recent years, social media has changed the way that companies and customers interact. For many companies, social media platforms like Facebook […]
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Josephine Go Jefferies
Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Josephine Go Jeffries’ examination of how really Big Data may change life in our budding infocracies.
Tell Us What Scholarly Communication Tools You Use, and Why
There has been a surge of new scholarly communication tools in recent years. But how are researchers incorporating these tools into their research workflows? Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer are attempting to answer that question through a global survey that asks researchers what choices they are making and why.
Positive Communication Improves Group Performance
[We’re pleased to welcome Hassan Abu Bakar of Universiti Utara Malaysia. Dr. Abu Bakar recently published an article with co-author Robert M. […]
Getting All Bibliometric Efforts Onto the Same Page
A recent conference aimed to bridge the gap between the different communities interested in bibliometrics. A key theme was the strong need for more openness and transparency: transparency in research evaluation processes to avoid biases, transparency of algorithms that compute new scores and openness of useful technology.
Don’t Forget Academe When Decrypting Mystery of Radicalization
The recent tragedies in Beirut, Paris and now San Bernardino reinforce the need for including the insights of scholars into efforts to understand motivations and curtail violence.
Teaching Future Teachers: An Argument for Incorporating More Teaching Preparation in Business Doctoral Programs
In sharp contrast to MBA and undergraduate business programs, business doctoral programs face far fewer limitations and guidelines on program curriculum and […]
Book Review: Epinets: The Epistemic Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks
Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, A. C. Joel Baum: Epinets: The Epistemic Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2014. […]
