Something old, something new: opening a new path to public engagement with the most traditional of academic tools

Abstract

Academic communication is changing; it’s becoming faster, more interactive, and more open. In response to academia’s transition online, the LSE today launches the LSE Review of Books blog. Publishing daily reviews of academic and serious books across the social sciences and providing readers with informative, well written, and timely reviews, the LSE Review of Books’ mission is to improve public engagement with the social sciences via involvement with their best written and most accessible products – books and ebooks. Here, editors Patrick Dunleavy and Amy Mollett tell us why now is the perfect time to launch the blog