Why I prefer Academia_edu over Academia_eu
It looks like 2015 will be the year when Academia_edu receives thorough scholarly attention and academic scrutiny. Guy Geltner’s post on why he left the network is an…
Author: Tobias Denskus
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Hi all, A short break and long book review later, a new link review arrives for week-end reading pleasure! How can IATI & OGP initiatives move from window-dressing…
A Mighty Purpose (book review)
There is a book (and review) for every season and Adam Fifield’s ‘A Mighty Purpose-How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children’ is a perfect match…
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Hi all, A busy week on aidnography featuring two new posts on conferencing in the digital age and media representation of development in the context of CNN’s Hero…
CNN Hero of the Year event offers a glimpse into today’s depoliticized charity industry
To be honest, I am not expecting much from CNN these days – certainly not much in terms of critical journalism. But it is still a fixture in…
If you want more diverse conferences & panels, make technology part of your diversity strategy
The current debate on lacking conference panel diversity has (rightly) focused on gender aspects, featuring #allmalepanels and #manels hashtags, a tumblr and a pledge; Courtney Martin’s post on…
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Hi all, Let’s start with this week’s highlights for a change: We have a great piece on UNDP’s social media work, a great essay on how ‘Humans of…
The answer to academic publishing challenges is not always open access
You probably have read about ‘Lingua-gate’ by now where the editors of the linguistics academic journal Lingua quit their job and journal in protest over publisher Elsevier’s pricing…
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Hi all, This is really a busy time of the semester, so the blogging work has to take a bit of a backseat these days…however, I am reading…
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Hi all, In Development News we start off on the lighter side with a great cartoon on how to end global wealth; in the build-up to the World…
Geek Heresy (book review)
I first ‘met’ Kentaro Toyama when he was blogging as the ICT4D Jester. So when he published his book ‘Geek Heresy – Rescuing Social Change from the Cult…
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Hi all, Development news starts with a strange interview with UN’s USG for Humanitarian Affairs who is quite happy with the system and himself…; reflections from the WHS…
New journal article on peacebuilding and anthropology
Nikolas Kosmatopolous and I are very happy that our special section on anthropology and peacebuilding will be published in the forthcoming issue of Peacebuilding. We contributed a very…
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Hi all, Another busy week…we welcomed two very interesting visitors this week and their talks on social media, protest movements and digital research are posted below.In Development news…
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Hi all, Let’s wrap up another week with some food for reading, sharing, discussing and thinking! Did Saudi-Arabia bribe the UK for UN support with just 100K USD?…
Apply to our MA in Communication for Development & Advances in C4D course!
Hi all, As most of you know, I have a fantastic ‘day job’ at Malmö University in Southern Sweden. Right now, applications are open for both our flagship…
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Hi all, Today is/was a first as I prepared the link review just before co-teaching a class in our New Media & ICT4D course so I can use…
Trust.org’s Tom Esslemont and the pipe dream of overhead-free humanitarian aid
When Tom Esslemont and the team at Trust.org send out a survey on how charities involved in the Nepal earthquake relief have spent their money, he must have…
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Hi all, While our ComDev program is about to celebrate its 15th anniversary this week, there is also a lot of good food-for-reading available that deserves some of…
The Frontman-Bono (in the name of power) (book review)
It is fair to say that Bono is one of the leading global celebrities involved in the aid industry and probably one of the founding fathers of modern,…
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Hi all, The first week of term was quite overwhelming-so the latest link review is a bit delayed. But this also means that plenty of interesting readings will…
New research on vocationalization in international development studies education
The latest published outcome of my fruitful research and writing partnership with Daniel Esser is a new article in Learning and Teaching where we discuss Countering the risks…
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Hi all, New week, new links as the momentum for the start of the new term builds up. Development news features Oxfam latest trends on closing civil society…
Does the ADB have a problem with women?
When I tweeted this picture from the ADB’s 7th International Policy Advisory Group meeting yesterday, I did not anticipate that it quickly became one of my most re-tweeted…