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The Authority of Sharing: postgraduate blogging in Classics

Explore why academics and postgraduates in Classics blog, their motivations, and the impact on their control, identity, and authority. Discover relevant blogs in the field of Classics.

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The Authority of Sharing: postgraduate blogging in Classics

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  1. The Authority of Sharing: postgraduate blogging in Classics Dr Cora Beth Knowles The Open University, UK

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  4. The Authority of Sharing: postgraduate blogging in Classics

  5. Why don’t academics blog? • The most common audience was academic (73%) followed by professional (38%), and the least common was researchers (6%), followed by students (15%). The educated public was marginally more common than students at 17% of blogs. We concluded from this analysis that most academic bloggers were actually writing for themselves – or people like themselves – rather than explicitly trying to reach a group of people differently circumstanced. • Mewburn and Thomson 2013 p.1113

  6. Why do postgraduates blog? • Control • Identity • Authority

  7. Control • Professional insecurity as a built-in feature of postgraduate recruitment… • ‘There is a good possibility that you will never obtain a permanent position teaching Classics at a college or university, even if you successfully complete a PhD in Classics in a first-rate program’ (Washington University in St. Louis 2019) • ‘…luck plays a large role in most careers, which is another way of saying that even with hard work a classicist may fail to complete a degree, or fail to find a job after completing a degree, for reasons that are completely beyond his or her control’ (University of Florida 2019).

  8. WHICH TRANSLATES AS…

  9. Identity Stay away from postgraduate Classics if you: https://classics.ufl.edu/programs-2/graduate/applying_graduate_schools/

  10. Authority • Moral authority? • Educative authority • Authority through vulnerability

  11. postgraduate bloggers and the ‘modern educator’ From Reid Wilson at https://wayfaringpath.coetail.com/2014/10/14/the-profile-of-a-modern-teacher/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

  12. Blogs to check out… My website, including postgraduate articles: https://classicalstudies.support/ Classical Fix: https://classicalfix.Com/ Le Temps Revient: https://letempsrevientblog.Wordpress.Com/ Classics and Coffee: http://www.classicsandcoffee.co.uk/about/

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