Academic

Academia.edu

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

Now that I am flush with money again, I have decided to stay in academia, and I have added my name to Academia.edu, a Facebooky-style site recently launched by Richard Price, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. The goal, according to Richard, is to "list every academic in the world," and he is one person closer to that goal as of five minutes ago.

The site already had BYU listed, but I was the first faculty member of the law school to enroll, so I had to create the law school as a department. I also created a few new sub-specialties within law. Having spent only a few minutes on the site, I am not positive that I "get" it completely, but the potential value of the site seems to lie in the "research interests," particularly as those become more specific. I could imagine being introduced to new communities of scholars through a site like this in areas where I am not already writing heavily.

Full post as published by Conglomerate on October 14, 2008 (boomark / email).