Improving Academia? potential for research and social media

From The Broker
Can collaborative writing help to improve the quality or quantity of academic output? Proponents of social media (such as blogs and wikis) argue that such collaboration has the potential to ensure that the quality of
research is higher than that produced by individual scholars. But in an academic setting this will happen only if [...]

Afrobarometer Research Speaks for Itself

- By Bob Mattes -
The Afrobarometer is an award-winning international research project that collects data on Africans’ attitudes and opinions about democracy and economics.  Now conducted in 20 countries, and with an unprecedented four waves of data collected in 12 countries, no social science project has ever approached its scope on this continent.  The project [...]