Dear Readers,
Academia.edu is scaling new heights of success as the social networking website for Academics. It is a useful medium for imparting as well as gaining knowledge about various academic fields.
The website www.academia.edu does two things:
- It shows academics around the world structured in a 'tree' format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations.
- It enables academics to see news on the latest research in their area - the latest people, papers and talks.
Dr. Richard Price who has a Ph.D on the philosophy of perception from Oxford launched this website with a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge hoping that Academia.edu will eventually list every academic in the world -- Faculty members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students. Academics can add their departments, and themselves, to the tree by clicking on the boxes.
Academics are joining the tree rapidly. More than 15,000 academics have added themselves in the last two months. Some professors on the site include: -
- Richard Dawkins - http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
- Stephen Hawking - http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
- Paul Krugman - http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman
- Noam Chomsky - http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky
- Steven Pinker - http://harvard.academia.edu/StevenPinker
Academia just launched a new feature that enables you to post a snapshot of your Academia.edu webpage to your Facebook profile. It's awesome!
You can also post other content from your Academia.edu webpage to your Facebook profile. At the moment you can post these pieces of content: - Papers- Books- Talks- Teaching documents. To post these documents to Facebook, go to your papers/books/talks page etc, and click on the ‘Post to my Facebook profile’ link next to each document.
It would be terrific if you could visit the website and help academics hear about the site by mentioning Academia.edu to your friends and colleagues.
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