[liberationtech] Guardian blog

[Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes]

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" <companys at stanford.edu> wrote:

> From: alice bell <alicerosebell at googlemail.com>
>
> 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
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