Blogging the News (by William Lynn)
When I started Ethos, I made a decision to avoid rapid-fire blogging in immediate response to current events. I wanted a substantive blog of columns that were both reflective and critically engaged with matters of practical ethics.
Yet I find myself routinely forwarding newspaper articles to my students and colleagues. Generally I draw from national and global newspapers, podcasts, and streaming media, e.g. the New York Times, the Toronto Globe and Mail, National Public Radio, and the Canadian Broadcast Service.
For my students, these articles are a gateway to connecting the theoretical and methodological knowledge they learn in class, and the insights this knowledge brings to one’s understanding of the empirical world. For my colleagues, they are a way we keep in touch, and receive ‘heads-up’ about events and information in our sphere’s of concern.
So beginning this summer, I’ve decided to experiment with sending a subset of these articles to Ethos as well, believing they may be of interest to a wider community interested in the ethical and policy dimensions of environmental studies, human-animal studies, and global studies.
Let me know what you think, whether you find these informational posts to be a complement or distraction to the substantive columns and editorials we usually publish.
cheers, Bill
William Lynn :: Mar.28.2008 :: Art, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Geography, Human-Animal Studies, Politics, Religion :: No Comments »