tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post116866390605821811..comments2024-02-28T18:29:41.120-08:00Comments on Not of General Interest: '"Academic blogging" versus "academics who blog"undinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-1168835647795863362007-01-14T20:34:00.000-08:002007-01-14T20:34:00.000-08:00I wondered about "careerist," too, Bardiac. Usual...I wondered about "careerist," too, Bardiac. Usually that's a term that has negative connotations of the kind you mention in your last paragraph--or worse (i.e., stab your grandmother in the back to get ahead = careerist is the more usual sense of the word). He seems to be setting out several sets of binaries: "real"/academic bloggers vs. trivial "academics who blog"; "careerists"/real academics vs. --well, what would you call people with jobs, publications, and lives? I'd call them academics, too, but he seems to have a different definition in mind. Maybe, as you say, he's just in a grad school frame of mind.<BR/><BR/>Professor Zero, those are my thoughts exactly.undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-1168822063349735562007-01-14T16:47:00.000-08:002007-01-14T16:47:00.000-08:00Good post Undine and great comment Bardiac. My 2 c...Good post Undine and great comment Bardiac. <BR/><BR/>My 2 cents is, I blog as a professor and an intellectual, but I try specifically *not* to have an academic blog. If I had a research blog, I'd put it under my name, or a more general blog in my field, same thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-1168818843701512942007-01-14T15:54:00.000-08:002007-01-14T15:54:00.000-08:00I'm not sure what he means by "careerist" there, t...I'm not sure what he means by "careerist" there, to be honest. Does he mean pursuing a career, in which case, what does he think we're doing? <BR/><BR/>I think there's a kind of space that grad students get into (and I certainly did), where you're really into your specific thing, and that's what you pretty much talk about, with people just like you, all the time.<BR/><BR/>But a lot of bloggers are out of that space, balancing writing/research, teaching, advising, committee work, mentoring students, family, home-mortgages, kids, etc, and that's what we blog about. It's just as focused on our career issues, often, but our career issues are in a different place, perhaps? Or maybe our blogs focus on more of our lives because we're just in a different place?<BR/><BR/>In non-R1 universities, we talk to people outside our specific fields or sub-fields in ways most grad students just don't. It's a different world.<BR/><BR/>Or does he use "careerist" to mean putting his career before all, which may work for some people or for some times, but long term may make for a difficult life. I read his attitude, and it sometimes reminds me of the generation of all male professors who put their jobs first, expecting their wives to type their manuscripts and show up to faculty wife functions. I'll be danged if I want that sort of life for me or any of my colleagues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com