March 2011
22 posts
The truth, said Chrissy Criscitiello, is that she never gave a moment’s thought to the deal she was making when she posted pictures on Facebook. “They’re of me and my friends when we go out,” Ms. Criscitiello said. “My son’s graduation. My husband’s family reunion. A vacation we went on to Lake Wallenpaupack.
“I never thought they would be able to sell those pictures or give those pictures...
“What *could* blogging for gender liberation look like? what *could* social media...”
– Sadly, as I got ready to post this, bunnehears went offline, something I hope is a decision made to further her work and life and happiness.
(Perhaps it won’t look like blogging at all.)
there's our catastrophe: Not all bias is... →
Not all bias is epistemically bad (Antony 1993). …The procedural approach argues that epistemically bad biases can be kept in check through an appropriate social organization of inquiry. A social organization that holds people with different biases accountable to one another will be able to weed…
I need to do a serious ladies post about helen longino. I sat across from her in a seminar...
If you guys don't know EveryBlock, you should... →
shortformblog:
Oh, and check the site over here.
overheard conversations between adults
The thing I find most fascinating about Facebook these days is that it becomes, on occasions, a space of resurrection, a place to overhear conversations between people from your hometown, or gather the details of what’s going on with people from your past in conjunction with other people from your past. A few weeks ago, I witnessed an exchange of dirty jokes on Facebook between my Uncle Don...
“In thinking about how archivists and scholars can be “mediators” building...”
– Notes from “The Radical Politics of Hidden Archives” with Steven Fullwood and Jillian Cuellar, from the NYU Workshop in Archival Practice. This is so relevant to my thesis research right now. I wish I could expound more on this, as they’ve opened up so many inroads for further investigation and...
I really dislike SXSW, mostly because I’m from Texas and have been forced to try and enjoy it so many times. Literally half of my life (from ages 15-30), springtime has meant either having to hear about other people having fun at SXSW, or being there and convincing myself to be excited/go to parties/ try to get invited to good parties. It’s so stressful! I mean, I guess going to those...
Watchfreshpeel:
What Publishers Can Learn From Facebook Like Trends
An overview of the findings from the “Like Log Study,” which analyzed the Facebook Like trends of 45 major news publications, shows that a very small share of the major account for more than half of likes for each publication.
from an email I sent to MC today
I got that Mama PhD book- avoid it! Every story is about getting discouraged/having a really complicated pregnancy or special needs child/seeing other people fail/quitting your tenure track job, and all of the bios at the end are like “So and so is a part time editor of a literary blog”. GAH! There is exactly one encouraging story by a lady math professor with three kids about going...
“It’s true that the most-trafficked personal bloggers appear to have few...”
– “Commerce of the Overshare”
"not easy to get along with"
karaj:
“we can consider the relationship between the negativity of the figure of the feminist killjoy and how certain bodies are ‘encountered’ as being negative. marilyn frye argues that oppression involves the requirement that you show signs of being happy with the situation in which you find yourself. as she puts it, ‘it is often a requirement upon oppressed people that we smile and be...
