Recently, I st
umbled upon a blog called The Thesis Whisperer, written by Inger Mewburn at RMIT in Melbourne. As she notes, the blog “is a ‘newspaper’ dedicated to the topic of doing a thesis.” And she adds: “just like the horse whisperer, but with more pages…” Lots of interesting information on writing theses and more.
Last week the Students’ Association of our Faculty of Social Sciences organized an interesting event together with MSL, a communications consultancy. The topic was Reputation and Social Media and in my introduction I discussed ways activist groups ‘use’ reputation and social media in their campaigns. Together with my colleague Sonja Utz from the Department of Communication Science we took care of the two “academic” introductions, followed by short introductions from the practitioners’ end with a representative from MSL and of a large corporation, Randstad. There appeared to be quite some unanimity in the debate following the introductions; the idea of bringing together these diverse groups provided some interesting points of view. I’m looking forward to the next event in this series!
