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Discussion of Numbered Lives, Ch 4: Every Step You Take (Linda Luu)
This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont. — The fourth chapter, “Every Step You Take,” opens the second half of the book which focuses on the counting of life and takes off from the […]
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Five Tips For Your First Academic Conference
Just last month, I had the opportunity to attend my first academic conference! The title of the conference was SWPACA (short for Southwest Popular/American Culture Association), located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I presented a postmortem of a board game that I designed about the Anti-transgender Bathroom Bill. The conference had its own area for game […]
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Black Love: An Interview w Prof Racquel Gates
Check out this wonderful interview on The Root with Prof Racquel Gates about depictions of Black love, romance, tenderness in Black cinema, starting in 1898 with this recently found “Something Good–Negro Kiss” and up to “If Beale Street Could Talk.” https://www.theroot.com/tracing-black-love-in-film-unpack-that-1832530824
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Communicating collaboration in the academic vita using “Percent Effort”
A recent conversation on Twitter opened with this question from Nathan: and several folks chimed in with a few really useful tips (I encourage you to check out the thread). Among those was my suggestion that putting in “percent effort” or “distribution of effort” would be a useful way of expressing the kind and volume […]
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How Can We Redesign Our Major? Key Questions For Getting Started
The essay below asks a series of questions designed to help any department or program think through the process of collectively rethinking and redesigning its major, general education offerings, electives, and graduate program. It poses questions to that end, mainly to ask whether a department or program is delivering a version of the education its […]
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Journalism Today
Yesterday, September 4, four days following Aretha Franklin’s funeral in Detroit, The Washington Post published an article on Franklin’s family’s response to the eulogy given by Rev. Jasper Williams for the singer. The headline reads: ‘Offensive and Distastful’: Aretha Franklin’s Family Blasts ‘Black-on-Black Crime’ Eulogy.” I was bothered by the article for a few reasons. […]
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Call for Proposals (due Oct 15)! Join us for HASTAC 2019: “Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education”
HASTAC 2019 “Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education” Unceded Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Territory UBC Vancouver | 16-18 May 2019 CALL FOR PROPOSALS On 16-18 May 2019, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), in partnership with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Department of English […]
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Narratives, Communities and the Platforms That Bind Them: An Interview with Anastasia Salter
To put it mildly, Dr. Anastasia Salter has been one of the more eclectic thinkers and prolific writers in media studies. Salter’s ever-expanding body of work serves as a signal, spotlighting the issues and concerns we should be paying attention to, whether it be software archiving or pop culture representations of geek culture. If you’ve […]
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Zach Mellman-Carsey’s Wearable Sculpture
Zach Mellman-Carsey is a graduate student studying Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design at Indiana University Bloomington. He holds a BFA in Three Dimensional Studies with emphasis in Jewelry and Metals from the Bowling Green State University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Zach sets bluetooth speakers inside the modeled and 3D printed components, combines 3D printed forms with a variety […]
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Indiana University Bloomington IDAH 2018 Spring Symposium
I participated in the IDAH (Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities) 2018 Spring Symposium as a HASTAC scholar. During the event, Caleb Weintraub, Associate Professor in the Indiana University Bloomington School of Art, Architecture + Design, presented as a 2017-2018 Faculty Fellow. Caleb’s working process is inspiring and thought provoking–Caleb sculpts the subject matters digitally […]