{"id":16658,"date":"2016-03-31T09:11:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T13:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16658"},"modified":"2016-03-31T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T13:11:38","slug":"an-article-in-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16658","title":{"rendered":"an article in The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Albany, NY) In lieu of blog post here, I have an <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-waning-influence-of-american-political-parties-56875\">article<\/a> in <em>The Conversation<\/em> today entitled &#8220;The Waning Influence of American Political Parties.&#8221; An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/gss.norc.org\/\">General Social Survey<\/a>, fewer than one in 10 young adults actively participated in a party in 2004, and that proportion fell to one in 40 by 2014.<\/p>\n<p>We can debate whether it would be desirable, constitutional or even possible to restore the parties&#8217; importance, but as long as they don\u2019t do much for young people, young people will naturally learn to ignore them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a moment to express my enthusiasm for <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us\">The Conversation<\/a>. It&#8217;s a rapidly growing news site that has established\u00a0portals in several countries. The tagline &#8220;academic rigor, journalistic flair&#8221; summarizes its ambition: to publish\u00a0scholarly articles that are edited and curated by professional journalists so that they are\u00a0accessible, brief, and timely. <em>The Conversation<\/em>\u00a0responds to two huge problems. On one hand, a third fewer people are employed as reporters compared to ten years ago. With traditional reporting in crisis, there is much less careful, fact-based journalism, and fewer professionals are involved in identifying interesting research and bringing it to public attention. On the other hand, academia produces a vast amount of valuable information and insight, but academics are not trained, supported, or rewarded for bringing their work to the public. <em>The Conversation<\/em>\u00a0fills the gap.<\/p>\n<p>See also:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6287\" rel=\"bookmark\">reform the university to meet the public\u2019s knowledge needs in an age of information overload<\/a>\u00a0(a video);\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6423\" rel=\"bookmark\">Five Strategies to Revive Civic Communication<\/a>; and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15755\" rel=\"bookmark\">how a university \u201ccovers\u201d the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Albany, NY) In lieu of blog post here, I have an article in The Conversation today entitled &#8220;The Waning Influence of American Political Parties.&#8221; An excerpt: According to the General Social Survey, fewer than one in 10 young adults actively participated in a party in 2004, and that proportion fell to one in 40 by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16659,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions\/16659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}