Beyond
the Ivory Tower
Academic
Discourse in the Age of Popular Media
The following is a draft manuscript which is being edited by Saleem
Ali and Robert Barsky
Comments should be sent
by email to saleem@alum.mit.edu.
Beyond
the Ivory Tower:
Public
Intellectuals, Academia and the Media
Edited by Saleem H.
Ali and Robert Barsky
Introduction:
The Age of Common Knowledge by Saleem
Ali
Part
1 The Script and the Cast
The
Social Sciences
1.
Popularizing the Social
Sciences by Toby Huff
2.
Marshall McLuhan
by James C. Morrison
The
Natural Sciences
3.
Science Fiction and
Popular Science by Asghar Qadir
4.
Carl Sagan: The People's
Astronomer by David Morrison
The
Humanities
5.
Fame or Infamy
by Carol Flynn
6.
The "Chomsky Effect"
by Robert Barsky
Part
2 The Stories Behind the Script
7.
The Media and Me
by Alan Chartock
8.
Journey Through Science
and Society by David Suzuki
9.
Race and the Public
Intellectual by Gerald Early
10
Popularizing Anthropology
by Margaret Mead
11.
Filling
the Empty Niches by William Calvin
Epilogue:
Contributions from Alan Lightman and Stephen Pinker
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