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So thinking of writing some for @Milieux_news or maybe for a non-profit journal about making the switch to here, but any advice on instances for non-profits and other institutions?
@p1273 #Academodon #Commodon
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Introduction:
I'm an associate professor of comm. Lately, I've focused my research + teaching on ecosystems of (mis/dis)information during a time of declining local news presence + trust in national media. I also study the history of comm and technology, looking closely at military ads and recruitment. I am glad to be on a decentralized platform and root for a public interest internet.#AcademicMastodon #Academodon #Academic #Professor
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Introduction:
I'm an associate professor of comm. Lately, I've focused my research + teaching on ecosystems of (mis/dis)information during a time of declining local news presence + trust in national media. I also study the history of comm and technology, looking closely at military ads and recruitment. I am glad to be on a decentralized platform and root for a public interest internet.#AcademicMastodon #Academodon #Academic #Professor
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Introduction:
I'm an associate professor of comm. Lately, I've focused my research + teaching on ecosystems of (mis/dis)information during a time of declining local news presence + trust in national media. I also study the history of comm and technology, looking closely at military ads and recruitment. I am glad to be on a decentralized platform and root for a public interest internet.#AcademicMastodon #Academodon #Academic #Professor
#Commodon #MediaStudies -
Introduction:
I'm an associate professor of comm. Lately, I've focused my research + teaching on ecosystems of (mis/dis)information during a time of declining local news presence + trust in national media. I also study the history of comm and technology, looking closely at military ads and recruitment. I am glad to be on a decentralized platform and root for a public interest internet.#AcademicMastodon #Academodon #Academic #Professor
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My overview of US higher Education - histories and agendas
https://prezi.com/bjfndr81plif/children-of-jefferson-how-did-we-get-here/
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November is #nanowrimo time in the writing world, and I usually try to do some kind of #AcademicWriting challenge. This year, I have two projects both at the lit review stage. Not conducive to a “producing X words peer day” challenge.
I think my challenge, at least for the first part of November, will be to read and annotate 1 article/chapter per day, including adding the record to #Zotero and putting notes there.
For accountability, and to hopefully find some conversation through hashtags, I’ll also post here.
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CW: #AcaWriMo notes post #DH #AlternativeHistoriographies
#AcaWriMo accountability post 14 (Nov 21). Shifting away from death this week to read the edited collection /Alternative #Historiographies of the #DigitalHumanities/ edited by Dorothy Kim and Adeline Koh, available as an #OpenAccess e-book from #Punctum Books.
Kim's introduction "Media Histories, #Media Archaeologies, and the Politics and Genealogies of the Digital Humanities" does the hard work of laying out succinctly the problematic history and historiographies the collection's essays are resisting, reframing, and speaking back to. She begins with the way that the early engineers and developers of Silicon Valley viewed the digital world they were building as a "version of the American West" steeped in the values of settler colonialism (17), supporting this point with an analysis of the use of master/slave language for disks and programs into the present (18).
This focus on power and violence continues as Kim moves on to discuss the dependence of digital development on its military usefulness, highlighting systems of digital mapping whose development has been funded thanks to military support (19-20) and which continues to be intertwined with settler-colonial ways of being (20).
Kim characterizes the volume as "engag[ing] with three main historical methodologies--media archaeology, the discussion of historiography in relation to "big data" and big humanities/digital humanities; and the discussion of silence and history making" (21). This is accomplished through six sections: Presents, Histories, Praxis, Methods, Indigenous Futures, and Black Futurities (24-29). The contributions throughout these sections, Kim asserts, share a focus on dynamics of power (23-24) and call on scholars in the field to "re-set discussions of the #DH and its attending straight, white origin myths" (24).
#academodon #histodons #litodons
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/alternative-historiographies-of-the-digital-humanities/
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CW: #AcaWriMo notes post #DeathDenial, maybe not so much
#AcaWriMo post accountability post 13 (Nov. 17-18)
In the 24.3 and 24.4 isssues of the journal /Mortality/, Marin Robert and Laura Tradii published a two part article "Do We Deny #Death? I. A Genealogy of #DeathDenial" and "Do We Deny Death? II. Critiques of the Death-Denial Thesis."The first part offers a helpful overview of history and sociology scholarship on death denial in Western culture, highlighting the rise of this theory in the early to mid C20th with thinkers like Freud. Notably, they argue that the death-denial theory requires a kind of nostalgia for past relationships with death, a contrast between the present death industry as impersonalizing and commodifying and the past paradigm of death at home as intimate and personal.
At the end of Part I and throughout Part II, Robert and Tradii argue that death and the dead are actually very present in contemporary popular culture. While I can agree with this, I continue to think that US culture is very bad at coping with the deaths and the dead that we encounter. I would agree that we collectively are not denying death, but we are also not collectively responding to it. There is a sort of individualism in the lack of communal mourning and grief rituals beyond the immediate funeral and burial services.
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CW: #AcaWriMo notes post #VirtualAfterlives
#AcaWriMo accountability post 12 (16 Nov.).
In her monograph /Virtual #Afterlives: Grieving the Death in the C21st/, Candi K. Cann explores the present uses of #VirtualSpaces for #mourning and #grief in the contemporary US, with some comparative attention to other world cultures. The brief argument Cann presents in her preface suggests "that [in the US] memorialization has increased so much because death itself is disappearing" (para. 3).
Her introduction contextualizes these present practices as the culmination of several historo-cultural processes in the US over the last 150 years. The Industrial Revolution and the American Civil War are key drivers. The first created the conditions of specialization of labor and population density in cities that contributed to the rise of the funeral home and mortuary industries (para. 2). The latter created the conditions for embalming to become a standard practice for all bodies (para. 3).
Cann then goes on to offer an extended discussion of #BereavementLeave policies, highlighting that the US has no federal laws or mandates that govern what companies offer to their employees. The federal government's #bereavement policies for their own employees are among the most generous in the US, but they have not trickled out into the private sector.
These policies influence both for whom we are able to grieve by enumerating particular relationships and degrees of kinship and for how long by limiting the time off (with or without pay) and requiring evidence in the form of a death certificate or obituary.
[side note]: One thing Cann doesn't mention is that it takes time to get a death certificate. In the case of my late husband, it was about a week after the funeral, so about 10 days after the death. Had anyone needed it for bereavement leave, it would not have been available to them.
Back to Cann--These limitations on the practices of #mourning and the processing of grief have a created a situation in which US society does not have a common framework for mourning, in contrast to the mid C19th when mourning clothes, armbands, ribbons identified the grieving and people withdrew from social life and work for an expected period of time.
Published in 2014, this book does not, of course, address our current pandemic or geopolitical situations, but I think it highlights the lack of memorialization we're seeing of the COVID dead, the climate change dead, and the armed conflict dead.
#academodon #DeathStudies #Thanatology
https://academic.oup.com/kentucky-scholarship-online/book/20771 -
So which of the multitude of exciting scholars and/or journos #OnHere is working on the story of the mechanics of how #Mastodon became *the* place we all flocked to? I’m thinking there’s a story about turning points, eliminated alternatives at crucial moments, and when path dependence kicked in (all complete with data) that occurred just as the sale of the bird app was announced that led us all here. I’d read it.
#TwitterMigration #Journodon #AcademicMastadon #Academodon #Journodons #Academia
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#Acawrimo accountability post 2. On Nov. 2, I started reading the 2022.9 special issue of the *Journal of #Folklore in #Education* on #Death, Loss, & Remembrance Across Cultures.
In "(Re)tracings of What Was once Present/Absent," their introduction to the special issue, guest editors Bretton A. Varga and Mark E. Helmsing lay out their personal experiences of living with and making sense of death and grief and extrapolate 1) why these aspects of the human experience are important to consider in educational spaces, and 2) how the discipline of folklore can help.
Pertinent to my interests, Varga notes his own experience of having narrative depictions of death influence his own expectations and understanding of this aspect of life (1). Together Helmsing and Varga call on educators to recognize #grief as "way of relating to the world" (2).
Both of these ideas--the impact of narrative and grief as a lens--demand that we recognize the cultural boundedness of grief. Different cultures, and even different contexts within shared culture, will respond to death/loss differently and have their own expressions of grief. Helmsing & Varga call for the application of Ladson-Billing's (1995) model of culturally relevant pedagogy that is "concerned with three aspects of education: student learning/growth, cultural competence, and critical consciousness" (4).
They conclude with reference to the body of literature about #GhostStories and #hauntology theory (5-6).
My reading annotations make connections between all of this and the #DisneyPixar films in which I've been looking at depictions of the afterlife. This chapter gets me closer to theorizing some things I've been noodling about and offers a rich trove of further sources to look at.
#Academodon #literature #litodons
https://jfepublications.org/article/2022intro/ -
I’m happy to do a video visit to any #litodon or #histodon classroom to talk about #FairyTales and why researchers should pay more attention to them (and other aspects of popular culture!).
If you don’t have library access to my book, let me know, and I’ll send a pdf of the intro. -
I’m happy to do a video visit to any #litodon or #histodon classroom to talk about #FairyTales and why researchers should pay more attention to them (and other aspects of popular culture!).
If you don’t have library access to my book, let me know, and I’ll send a pdf of the intro. -
I’m happy to do a video visit to any #litodon or #histodon classroom to talk about #FairyTales and why researchers should pay more attention to them (and other aspects of popular culture!).
If you don’t have library access to my book, let me know, and I’ll send a pdf of the intro. -
I’m happy to do a video visit to any #litodon or #histodon classroom to talk about #FairyTales and why researchers should pay more attention to them (and other aspects of popular culture!).
If you don’t have library access to my book, let me know, and I’ll send a pdf of the intro. -
I recently chatted with Carmen Gomez-Galisteo of the New Books Network about my monograph *#FairyTales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them*
Carmen was a great interlocutor and she steered the conversation to all the saucy topics like #race, #religion, #AmericanHistory, and why I spend so much time talking about #Cinderella.@litstudies @histodons #academodon #Litodon #histodon #DisneyPixar #DisneyStudies #DisNet https://newbooksnetwork.com/fairy-tales-in-contemporary-american-culture
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I recently chatted with Carmen Gomez-Galisteo of the New Books Network about my monograph *#FairyTales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them*
Carmen was a great interlocutor and she steered the conversation to all the saucy topics like #race, #religion, #AmericanHistory, and why I spend so much time talking about #Cinderella.@litstudies @histodons #academodon #Litodon #histodon #DisneyPixar #DisneyStudies #DisNet https://newbooksnetwork.com/fairy-tales-in-contemporary-american-culture
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CW: #AcaWriMo notes post #DH #AlternativeHistoriographies
#AcaWriMo accountability post 14 (Nov 21). Shifting away from death this week to read the edited collection /Alternative #Historiographies of the #DigitalHumanities/ edited by Dorothy Kim and Adeline Koh, available as an #OpenAccess e-book from #Punctum Books.
Kim's introduction "Media Histories, #Media Archaeologies, and the Politics and Genealogies of the Digital Humanities" does the hard work of laying out succinctly the problematic history and historiographies the collection's essays are resisting, reframing, and speaking back to. She begins with the way that the early engineers and developers of Silicon Valley viewed the digital world they were building as a "version of the American West" steeped in the values of settler colonialism (17), supporting this point with an analysis of the use of master/slave language for disks and programs into the present (18).
This focus on power and violence continues as Kim moves on to discuss the dependence of digital development on its military usefulness, highlighting systems of digital mapping whose development has been funded thanks to military support (19-20) and which continues to be intertwined with settler-colonial ways of being (20).
Kim characterizes the volume as "engag[ing] with three main historical methodologies--media archaeology, the discussion of historiography in relation to "big data" and big humanities/digital humanities; and the discussion of silence and history making" (21). This is accomplished through six sections: Presents, Histories, Praxis, Methods, Indigenous Futures, and Black Futurities (24-29). The contributions throughout these sections, Kim asserts, share a focus on dynamics of power (23-24) and call on scholars in the field to "re-set discussions of the #DH and its attending straight, white origin myths" (24).
#academodon #histodons #litodons
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/alternative-historiographies-of-the-digital-humanities/
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CW: #AcaWriMo notes post #DeathDenial, maybe not so much
#AcaWriMo post accountability post 13 (Nov. 17-18)
In the 24.3 and 24.4 isssues of the journal /Mortality/, Marin Robert and Laura Tradii published a two part article "Do We Deny #Death? I. A Genealogy of #DeathDenial" and "Do We Deny Death? II. Critiques of the Death-Denial Thesis."The first part offers a helpful overview of history and sociology scholarship on death denial in Western culture, highlighting the rise of this theory in the early to mid C20th with thinkers like Freud. Notably, they argue that the death-denial theory requires a kind of nostalgia for past relationships with death, a contrast between the present death industry as impersonalizing and commodifying and the past paradigm of death at home as intimate and personal.
At the end of Part I and throughout Part II, Robert and Tradii argue that death and the dead are actually very present in contemporary popular culture. While I can agree with this, I continue to think that US culture is very bad at coping with the deaths and the dead that we encounter. I would agree that we collectively are not denying death, but we are also not collectively responding to it. There is a sort of individualism in the lack of communal mourning and grief rituals beyond the immediate funeral and burial services.
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CW: #AcaWriMo notes post #VirtualAfterlives
#AcaWriMo accountability post 12 (16 Nov.).
In her monograph /Virtual #Afterlives: Grieving the Death in the C21st/, Candi K. Cann explores the present uses of #VirtualSpaces for #mourning and #grief in the contemporary US, with some comparative attention to other world cultures. The brief argument Cann presents in her preface suggests "that [in the US] memorialization has increased so much because death itself is disappearing" (para. 3).
Her introduction contextualizes these present practices as the culmination of several historo-cultural processes in the US over the last 150 years. The Industrial Revolution and the American Civil War are key drivers. The first created the conditions of specialization of labor and population density in cities that contributed to the rise of the funeral home and mortuary industries (para. 2). The latter created the conditions for embalming to become a standard practice for all bodies (para. 3).
Cann then goes on to offer an extended discussion of #BereavementLeave policies, highlighting that the US has no federal laws or mandates that govern what companies offer to their employees. The federal government's #bereavement policies for their own employees are among the most generous in the US, but they have not trickled out into the private sector.
These policies influence both for whom we are able to grieve by enumerating particular relationships and degrees of kinship and for how long by limiting the time off (with or without pay) and requiring evidence in the form of a death certificate or obituary.
[side note]: One thing Cann doesn't mention is that it takes time to get a death certificate. In the case of my late husband, it was about a week after the funeral, so about 10 days after the death. Had anyone needed it for bereavement leave, it would not have been available to them.
Back to Cann--These limitations on the practices of #mourning and the processing of grief have a created a situation in which US society does not have a common framework for mourning, in contrast to the mid C19th when mourning clothes, armbands, ribbons identified the grieving and people withdrew from social life and work for an expected period of time.
Published in 2014, this book does not, of course, address our current pandemic or geopolitical situations, but I think it highlights the lack of memorialization we're seeing of the COVID dead, the climate change dead, and the armed conflict dead.
#academodon #DeathStudies #Thanatology
https://academic.oup.com/kentucky-scholarship-online/book/20771 -
So which of the multitude of exciting scholars and/or journos #OnHere is working on the story of the mechanics of how #Mastodon became *the* place we all flocked to? I’m thinking there’s a story about turning points, eliminated alternatives at crucial moments, and when path dependence kicked in (all complete with data) that occurred just as the sale of the bird app was announced that led us all here. I’d read it.
#TwitterMigration #Journodon #AcademicMastadon #Academodon #Journodons #Academia
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So which of the multitude of exciting scholars and/or journos #OnHere is working on the story of the mechanics of how #Mastodon became *the* place we all flocked to? I’m thinking there’s a story about turning points, eliminated alternatives at crucial moments, and when path dependence kicked in (all complete with data) that occurred just as the sale of the bird app was announced that led us all here. I’d read it.
#TwitterMigration #Journodon #AcademicMastadon #Academodon #Journodons #Academia
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So which of the multitude of exciting scholars and/or journos #OnHere is working on the story of the mechanics of how #Mastodon became *the* place we all flocked to? I’m thinking there’s a story about turning points, eliminated alternatives at crucial moments, and when path dependence kicked in (all complete with data) that occurred just as the sale of the bird app was announced that led us all here. I’d read it.
#TwitterMigration #Journodon #AcademicMastadon #Academodon #Journodons #Academia
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Hello world!
I’m about to start as AP in economics at UMass Econ Department. I work on intergenerational economic mobility, inequality of opportunity and stratification economics.
Sometimes I dash into the macroeconomics of development from a structuralist perspective.
I’m currently working on a project analyzing differences in intergenerational mobility associated to sex and skin tone in Mexico.
#introduction #econtooter #econtoots #economics #academia #econodon #academodon
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Hello world!
I’m about to start as AP in economics at UMass Econ Department. I work on intergenerational economic mobility, inequality of opportunity and stratification economics.
Sometimes I dash into the macroeconomics of development from a structuralist perspective.
I’m currently working on a project analyzing differences in intergenerational mobility associated to sex and skin tone in Mexico.
#introduction #econtooter #econtoots #economics #academia #econodon #academodon
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Hello world!
I’m about to start as AP in economics at UMass Econ Department. I work on intergenerational economic mobility, inequality of opportunity and stratification economics.
Sometimes I dash into the macroeconomics of development from a structuralist perspective.
I’m currently working on a project analyzing differences in intergenerational mobility associated to sex and skin tone in Mexico.
#introduction #econtooter #econtoots #economics #academia #econodon #academodon
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Hello world!
I’m about to start as AP in economics at UMass Econ Department. I work on intergenerational economic mobility, inequality of opportunity and stratification economics.
Sometimes I dash into the macroeconomics of development from a structuralist perspective.
I’m currently working on a project analyzing differences in intergenerational mobility associated to sex and skin tone in Mexico.
#introduction #econtooter #econtoots #economics #academia #econodon #academodon
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Introduction:
I'm an associate professor of comm. Lately, I've focused my research + teaching on ecosystems of (mis/dis)information during a time of declining local news presence + trust in national media. I also study the history of comm and technology, looking closely at military ads and recruitment. I am glad to be on a decentralized platform and root for a public interest internet.#AcademicMastodon #Academodon #Academic #Professor
#Commodon #MediaStudies -
#Acawrimo accountability post 2. On Nov. 2, I started reading the 2022.9 special issue of the *Journal of #Folklore in #Education* on #Death, Loss, & Remembrance Across Cultures.
In "(Re)tracings of What Was once Present/Absent," their introduction to the special issue, guest editors Bretton A. Varga and Mark E. Helmsing lay out their personal experiences of living with and making sense of death and grief and extrapolate 1) why these aspects of the human experience are important to consider in educational spaces, and 2) how the discipline of folklore can help.
Pertinent to my interests, Varga notes his own experience of having narrative depictions of death influence his own expectations and understanding of this aspect of life (1). Together Helmsing and Varga call on educators to recognize #grief as "way of relating to the world" (2).
Both of these ideas--the impact of narrative and grief as a lens--demand that we recognize the cultural boundedness of grief. Different cultures, and even different contexts within shared culture, will respond to death/loss differently and have their own expressions of grief. Helmsing & Varga call for the application of Ladson-Billing's (1995) model of culturally relevant pedagogy that is "concerned with three aspects of education: student learning/growth, cultural competence, and critical consciousness" (4).
They conclude with reference to the body of literature about #GhostStories and #hauntology theory (5-6).
My reading annotations make connections between all of this and the #DisneyPixar films in which I've been looking at depictions of the afterlife. This chapter gets me closer to theorizing some things I've been noodling about and offers a rich trove of further sources to look at.
#Academodon #literature #litodons
https://jfepublications.org/article/2022intro/