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Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 2 views

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  • "Make sure that someone's got your back, but do the risky thing."
  • Sidonie Smith, is leading an investigation of future forms of the dissertation, and whose Committee on Information Technology is working on issues surrounding the review of digital scholarship for tenure and promotion.
  • Real innovation requires risk
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  • Getting her work out of the pile is helped enormously by having done something more than what was expected
  • You must support her in doing the risky thing. Insist that she defend her experimental work, and then, in turn, defend her choice to anyone who doesn't understand her deviation from the road ordinarily traveled.
  • Scholars doing digital work require kinds of support that many more traditionally oriented humanists do not: access to technical resources for both their teaching and scholarship, as well as help maintaining those resources.
  • we run the risk of breaking the innovative spirit that we've hoped to bring to our departments
  • And where that spirit isn't broken, untenured digital scholars run the risk of burnout from having to produce twice as much—traditional scholarship and digital projects—as their counterparts do
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Talk About the South: Dayne Sherman's Blog: An Open Letter to Nicholas Kristof - 1 views

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  • André de Avillez on 20 Feb 14
     
    Response to Kristof's piece
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Look Who Nick Kristof's Saving Now | Corey Robin - 1 views

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  • You begin to get a clue of what he’s really talking about, then, by noticing two of the people he approvingly cites and quotes in his critique of academia: Anne-Marie Slaughter and Jill Lepore.
  • The problem here is not that scholars don’t aspire to write for The New Yorker. It’s that it’s a rather selective place
  • He only reads The New Yorker, and then complains that everyone doesn’t write for The New Yorker
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  • Nor does he see the gatekeepers—even in our new age of blogs and little magazines—that prevent supply from meeting demand.
  • The problem here isn’t that typically American conceit of “culture” v. nonconformist rebel. It’s the very material pressures and constraints young academics face, long before tenure. It’s the job market.  It’s the rise of adjuncts. It’s neoliberalism.
  • I had to smile at Kristof’s nod to publish or perish. Most working academics would give anything to be confronted with that dilemma. The vast majority can’t even think of publishing; they’re too busy teaching four, five, courses a semester
  • André de Avillez on 20 Feb 14
     
    A reply to Nicholas Kristof
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Comments policy - Crooked Timber - 0 views

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  • André de Avillez on 20 Feb 14
     
    interesting commenting policy. Their policies re: sock puppets may be worth implementing
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Professors, we need you to do more! | Doing Good Science, Scientific American Blog Network - 1 views

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  • André de Avillez on 20 Feb 14
     
    Yet another response to Kristof's op-ed piece
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The New Public Intellectuals | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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    Reply to Kristof
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The Point is Academic (Guest Post by Andrew Seal) | s-usih.org - 1 views

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    Reply to Kristof
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Saved By History: On Public Intellectuals - 1 views

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    reply to Kristof
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A Column Lamenting the Disappearing Public Intellectual Touches a Nerve - The Ticker - ... - 2 views

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  • Kris Klotz on 23 Feb 14
     
    Reply to Kristof in the CHE
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The rise of morality politics in Africa: Talk is cheap and dangerous, but wins votes - 0 views

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  • Legislating morality, unlike improving social services like health and education, is nearly costless for politicians. It is also extremely popular
  • In addition to winning votes, however, laws such as the criminalization of homosexuality can also be used opportunistically against both the public and political opposition
  • The anti-homosexuality bill reflects popular sentiment in Uganda, where 90 percent of respondents said that homosexuality was “never justified,
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  • Recent “moral” legislation extends beyond homosexuality, however, and focusing on the salience of LGBT issues may obscure other arenas in which moral dictates are being employed for political purposes.
  • Legislating morality may seem odd in a country where more than three quarters of survey respondents believe “some of” or “most of” parliamentarians are corrupt, according to Afrobarometer data, but perhaps it is precisely because of their credibility deficit that politicians are employing moral dictates as a nearly costless alternative to delivering the goods and services that are so badly needed.
  • these laws can also be easily converted into tools for political witch hunts
  • In countries where mob justice is a common replacement for weak or non-existent law enforcement, these laws give way to everyday opportunism.
  • André de Avillez on 24 Feb 14
     
    Article on the current trend of legislating morality, and the side effects of such laws
  • André de Avillez on 25 Feb 14
     
    Might be a good one to amplify in relation to this article by Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23299460.2014.882554#.UwzwEXVdXC1
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The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class in Australia - 0 views

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  • The great story of recent Australian art has been the resurgence of Indigenous culture and its recognition as a major art form. But in a country increasingly divided by class and wealth, the rise of Indigenous art has had consequences undreamed of by those who first projected it onto the international exhibiting stage.
  • The continuing success of both traditional and western influenced art forms has led to one of the great paradoxes in Australian culture. At a time when art schools have subjugated themselves to the metrics-driven culture of the modern university system, when creative courses are more and more dominated by the children of privilege, some of the most interesting students and graduates are Indigenous.
  • Because Indigenous students were seen as a special case they managed to avoid the metrification of merit.
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  • Not all Indigenous art students become artists. Some use the project-management skills inherent in making any creative endeavour to move onwards and upwards elsewhere
  • But because there are so many successful Indigenous artists, art remains both readily understood as a pathway out of poverty and a way to argue the cause
  • The poor see things differently
  • In the distant past, when tertiary study was less formalised, less measured than today, visually-talented working-class kids often gravitated to art schools.
  • n Australia the sense of freedom to choose a career seems to have been lost at about the same time as the introduction of HECS in 1989
  • There is a disconnect between the class of people who make and administer the rules and the lived experience of the many. Those who run the world see debt as a tool, a means to a well-considered end, a way to access working capital, a pathway to future wealth.
  • The children of the wealthy, who now dominate undergraduate arts education, know that mainstream culture belongs to them. There is no message of self-belief presented to those working-class students who may wish to take their art further because it was the one school subject that made sense to them.
  • my parents were not prepared to be guarantors for me to take a teaching scholarship
  • Accelerating divisions of class and wealth have seen a dramatic reduction in the number of bright, edgy students from the unfashionable suburbs studying the arts
  • André de Avillez on 24 Feb 14
     
    Article on the impact of a metrics-based university curriculum on arts programs in Australia, which is used to explain the disproportionate success of indigenous students, who are exempt from most metrics at the time of admission.
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Toxicity: The True Story of Mainstream Feminism's Violent Gatekeepers | - 0 views

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    Article arguing that concepts like "toxicity" and "politics of reponsibility" reflect white priviledge amongst some feminists
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Digital Distractions: Pokemon and the Challenges of Collaboration - ProfHacker - Blogs ... - 0 views

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    Short post reflecting on the challenges of digital collaboration, as exemplified in a large-scale collaborative video-game
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The Work of Public Work | Jacobin - 2 views

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  • At the same time, I want to hold Robin accountable to his desire for a “materialist analysis of the relationship between politics, economics, and culture.”
  • I think he wrongly characterizes the conditions under which many of these young academics are writing
  • The risk of being a public intellectual, he posits, comes from the fact that these scholars are taking time away from their academic writing
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  • The workload of academics has increased exponentially in recent years, as has been well-documented
  • I have found that writing for popular audiences is not solely an internal passion, but has actually become an external demand of young scholars, another metric by which their job application or tenure-file is evaluated.
  • The problem is that Robin goes on to romanticize the lives of young scholar-writers, saying that their work arises from intrinsic desires, whose realization is made possible by new technology:
  • Young scholars are compelled to transform themselves into academic entrepreneurs, creating a brand that they promote through their blogs, tweets, and online profiles.
  • The swelling workloads of academics are indicative of the micropolitics of neoliberalism
  • The mantra of “publishing early and often” has intensified, especially in a tight job market. As tenured horizons grow grimmer, new scholars must do anything they can to stand out above a crowd of over-achievers. Publish early, publish often — and now, publish online.
  • Consider the website Academia.edu
  • But the site also exemplifies the quantification of the productive self, with each profile displaying the number of views, article downloads, and followers for each academic.
  • It’s no wonder that I’ve also seen a growing number of colleagues (myself included) add a “Public Scholarship” section to their CVs
  • The labor of public intellectualism is more than a political project, or even a charitable effort of self-expression — it’s another manifestation of exploitation
  • As a result, young academics trying to keep up with new media are writing, reading blogs and engaging in Twitter wars during lunch breaks, between teaching commitments, and well into the night.
  • To meet the demands of academic capitalism, there’s now even less of a chance of ever clocking out.
  • Yes, let us praise the young writers whose voices are being seen and heard across the blogosphere, and luxuriate in the possibilities of transcending the borders of the Ivory Tower. But let us not forget that writing, even on the Internet, and even for the “public good,” is still work. And whenever we’re encouraged to do more work, we should be a bit wary.
  • André de Avillez on 25 Feb 14
     
    A response to Corey Robin's response to Kristof's article, raising troubling concerns regarding the commodification of public scholarship.  Seems worth amplifying, in conjunction with the critiques of Kristof's piece or on its own.
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What is | @Partido_X - 0 views

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    A political project that aims to foster democracy by promoting participation and collaboration by citizens
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OWS interviews Partido X - 0 views

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  • the program of the Partido X is developed through crowd-sourced drafting of public policy proposals, where we invite groups or experts that are already working on a given issue and are socially recognized for it to submit the first draft of a policy proposal and later we post it online for the network to amend.
  • More than 2,000 people have participated so far in the amend processes, and as the platform grows so do their numbers: around 25,000 are registered in their newsletter, which is the first step to collaborate in the network.
  • André de Avillez on 19 Feb 14
     
    OWS website. if we're looking for activists and activism, we'll probably find them here...
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Public Sphere Project - 1 views

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  • Kris Klotz on 10 Feb 14
     
    Many projects and resources devoted "to help create and support equitable and effective public spheres all over the world."
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