Tensions Within the Public Intellectual: Political Interventions from Dreyfus to the New Social Media

Baert, Patrick; Booth, Josh

doi:10.1007/s10767-012-9123-6

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“…Apart from social media, other online tools like blogs, Wikis and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are used for public engagement either by universities or individual academics. Blogs have the potential to change academics into 'public intellectuals' (Baert and Booth 2012;Nackerud and Scaletta 2008) and enable a more dialogical style of intervention, as academics can now reach publics without the usual mediators that can be found in newspapers, radio and television. Practically, this means that in contrast to the conventional media to which only few high-profile academics were invited, blogs dilute institutionalised hierarchy and give the opportunity to any academic to engage with the public (Baert and Booth 2012;Bastow, Dunleavy, and Tinkler 2014;Mewburn and Thomson 2013).…”

Section: Forms Of Public Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

UK public’s intention to engage with academia via online technologies

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Papagiannidis

2017

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Section: Forms Of Public Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

UK public’s intention to engage with academia via online technologies

Dermentzi

Papagiannidis

2017

Behaviour & Information Technology

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“…4 It has been established that social networks, blogs, messenger services, etc. have become influential in recent political affairs (Baert and Booth 2012;Thijssen 2013). A sampling strategy able to take into account crossnational spheres is difficult to imagine and implement, however.…”

Section: Research Questions and Research Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scholars as European public intellectuals? Media interventions in the 2014 European Parliament election campaign

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This paper presents results from a collaborative research project investigating European scholars from the social sciences and humanities (SSH) who acted as public intellectuals during the 2014 European Parliament (EP) election campaign. We analyze op-ed contributions published in 21 broadsheet newspapers and in 9 EU member states, written by 195 authors who contributed 262 articles. The result is a portrait of European SSH scholars acting as public intellectuals. It shows a clear overrepresentation of male authors of advanced age. Academic reputation and public prestige show an east-west divide, with prominent authors prevalently publishing in renowned "West European" newspapers. Disciplinary background offers the most noticeable differentiations. Political scientists are most active, however, predominantly publishing in domestic settings. By contrast, economists reach out to a wider international audience and write explicitly on EU matters, while intervening sociologists and philosophers, as the most senior intellectuals, examine Europe in its wider international and historical context. Correspondence analysis comprising the content of public interventions, and key characteristics of all contributors, suggests that even during the EU electoral campaign, scholars from the SSH do not necessarily contribute to the rise of a European public sphere, as their interventions are more domestic than European in focus.

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“…In the last two decades, the public intellectual has been researched by theorists from the fi elds of intellectual history, sociology and literary studies (Small 2002;Posner 2004;Collini 2009;Baert and Booth 2012;Heynders 2016). Much of their work was based on studies from the early 20 th century by Antonio Gramsci and Julien Benda, and on the thesis of J. Habermas.…”

Section: Public Intellectual Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Crucial to my analysis of theories on the literary writer as public intellectual is that technological changes have altered the public sphere and stimulated the dialogue between intellectual and audiences, while at the same time, televised talk shows and documentaries have blurred the borders of fi ction and reality which audiences do not always accept (Baert and Booth 2012;Heynders 2016). What a literary author conveys in a novel cannot be judged in the same way as that which s/he explains in a television interview or online.…”

Section: Public Intellectual Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Figure of the Migrant: Tommy Wieringa’s Intellectual Intervention

Heynders

2017

Werkwinkel

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In today's transforming European public sphere various literary authors position themselves publicly and engagingly in the debate on migration and exclusion. Dutch writer Tommy Wieringa is a clear voice in this context: his ideas on the topic are meaningfully expressed in literary novels. This article analyses Wieringa's position as an authoritative public intellectual speaking with great moral weight about the fi gure of the migrant. Drawing on positioning theory, the main claim of the article will be that Wieringa's literary articulation of migration contributes to the societal discussion and underlines a specifi c type of moral knowledge as well as an appeal to human solidarity.

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Tensions Within the Public Intellectual: Political Interventions from Dreyfus to the New Social Media

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

UK public’s intention to engage with academia via online technologies

UK public’s intention to engage with academia via online technologies

Scholars as European public intellectuals? Media interventions in the 2014 European Parliament election campaign

The Figure of the Migrant: Tommy Wieringa’s Intellectual Intervention

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