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The Political Scientist as a Blogger

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2011

John Sides
John Sides
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George Washington University
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In November 2007, I helped found a blog, The Monkey Cage, with two of my colleagues, David Park and Lee Sigelman. This site joined a nascent political science blogosphere that is now composed of at least 80 blogs (Farrell and Sides 2010). The goals of The Monkey Cage are to publicize political science research and use this research to comment on current events. Although blogging is a promising way for scholars to promote their work to a larger audience, political scientists have been slow to take up this medium. To be sure, blogging is not without its challenges, particularly in terms of the time and energy needed to maintain a site. But blogging can also have its benefits by not only helping political science reach a broader audience, but also aiding individual scholars' research, teaching, and service goals.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 267 - 271
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2011

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