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On "community" and "academic" | poke salad - 0 views

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  • André de Avillez on 16 Feb 14
     
    Blog post on the potential difficulties of reconciling an academic identity with the concept of community
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Why Liberal Academics and Ivory Tower Radicals Make Poor Revolutionaries - Youngist - 1 views

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  • André de Avillez on 17 Feb 14
     
    "Try reading any academic text from your local women's studies, ethnic studies, post-colonial studies, or anthropology department. The texts are almost always written so that only academics can understand. Some students and scholars call it "acadamese." It is writing that needs to be decoded before it can be understood. This is what inaccessible language looks like in academic texts written about oppressed groups, but not for them."
  • André de Avillez on 17 Feb 14
     
    This strikes me as the kind of article we ought to invite for commenting, review, and publication. If this could be improved without devolving into "academese" (as she calls it), it would be a great article.
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Civility, respect, and the project of sharing a world. | Adventures in Ethics and Science - 1 views

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  • André de Avillez on 17 Feb 14
     
    a reflection on online civility, with regard to a recent outing of an anonymous female blogger by an editor of the journal Nature
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Professors, We Need You! - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • André de Avillez on 18 Feb 14
     
    Op-ed on the disjunct between academics and their communities
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Bridging the Moat Around Universities - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • André de Avillez on 18 Feb 14
     
    Nicholas Kristof's blog post about his article "Professors, we need you!". Seems to have a lively conversation in the comments section.
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Public Engagement | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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  • Kris Klotz on 18 Feb 14
     
    One of the many critical responses to Kristof's piece.
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» Data Curation as Publishing for the Digital Humanities Journal of Digital H... - 0 views

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  • the mechanisms of publishing come to stand in for the larger and more complex processes of creating, vetting, and circulating knowledge
  • if we examine the work that humanists are doing—in something like the way that scholars in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) have done for science—by looking at their culture of material practices, then the familiar framework of “publishing” does not serve us well
  • to publish this scholarship requires that we add some new dimensions to our ideas of “publishing.”
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  • I want to suggest that the theory and practice of data curation can augment our notion of “publishing” in a way that will serve the needs of the digital humanities community
  • Data-curation-as-publishing is publishing work that draws directly on the unique skills of librarians and aligns directly with library missions and values in ways that other kinds of publishing endeavors may not.
  • Treating data curation and publishing as kindred services may offer the prospect of expanding a library’s stable of “innovative” offerings while not straining resources because there are management efficiencies in having both the “front end” and “back end” people in the library. However, in this model, neither libraries nor publishing seems truly transformed and this is a problematic mismatch when so many other aspects of scholarly work are being transformed.
  • In referring to “data curation,” I am speaking specifically of information work that integrates closely with the disciplinary practices and needs of researchers in order to “maintain digital information that is produced in the course of research in a manner that preserves its meaning and usefulness as a potential input for further research.”
  • Kathleen Fitzpatrick has argued that humanists “might … find our values shifting away from a sole focus on the production of unique, original new arguments and texts to consider instead curation as a valid form of scholarly activity” (Fitzpatrick 79)
  • It is also increasingly common to see the release of open data sets as enticement to attract digital humanists to work on particular sets of questions,
  • Publishers add value to end products through peer review and high quality production and presentation. Libraries standardize and preserve these outputs and continue to make them available to a community over time. Organizations which comprise both library and publisher can imagine this as a unified suite of services that cover the entire data lifecycle.
  • André de Avillez on 19 Feb 14
     
    Article on JDH on data curation, by Trecor Muñoz. Focused on data-curation by libraries, but I thought it might be interesting given the curation side of the PPJ
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getting past emotional truth | Fredrik deBoer - 0 views

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  • André de Avillez on 28 Feb 14
     
    Critique of posts by frustrated adjuncts, pointing out that exaggerations are counter productive.
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Don't fear the patriarchy, girls. Just keep your knickers on - 0 views

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  • André de Avillez on 28 Feb 14
     
    Feminist (feminist-leaning) analysis of a viral conservative video promoting an economy of sex
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Unionize College Football | Jacobin - 0 views

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  • The unionization campaign at Northwestern is no doubt exciting. That any group of people in their late-teens and early-twenties, football players or otherwise, thought to address their workplace grievances through organizing is, in this rabidly anti-union place and time, nothing short of remarkable. If they succeed (which is still far from certain), their victory could reverberate across the intercollegiate athletic world, transforming the NCAA in the process. And, not inconsequentially, they could pave the road for organizing advances by graduate students, medical residents, and many others who work for the same institution that bestows their degrees or credentials.
  • André de Avillez on 28 Feb 14
     
    Piece on the unionization efforts by Northwestern University's football team.
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Chapter 2. Communication-specific guidelines - 0 views

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  • André de Avillez on 20 Oct 14
     
    Good resource for policies on community communication
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