Category: Access
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Recap: Scholars for Social Justice Twitter Chat
Last Tuesday, February 13th, Scholars for Social Justice (SSJ) held their first Twitter chat on the subject of “Racism, Resistance, and Free Speech” using the hashtag #SSJResist. The chat’s invited participants were Charlene Carruthers, Cathy Cohen, Alvaro Huerta, Barbara Ransby, C. Riley Snorton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and the conversation was moderated by Jenn Jackson. Scholars for […]
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Digital Accessibility and You
I have been working on a series of blog posts on digital accessibility for the last several months. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart, as I am a disabled student and worker in a digital world. I try to advance projects and accessibility in general, and to lead and […]
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Beauty Standards: What Society Says is Good Enough
“Who says, who says you’re not perfect? Who says you’re not worth it? Who says you’re the only one that’s hurtin’? Trust me, that’s the price of beauty. Who says you’re not pretty? Who says you’re not beautiful? Who says? ” The Popstar, actress, and model Selena Gomez was one of the many to wonder […]
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The Debate With Online Surveillance
The Debate with Online Surveillance The topic of online surveillance has long been an issue up for debate. According to Merriam-Webster, surveillance can be defined as, “close watch kept over someone or something,” (Merriam-Webster), https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surveillance. So that begs the questions, is there anything that is really, truly private that you can do on the […]
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“Data, Privacy, and Personhood: A (Re-)view of Meg Leta Jones’s Ctrl+Z: The Right to Be Forgotten”
In music scholarship, the idea of infinite repeatability is one of the characteristics that separates recorded performance from “live” performance. For consumers, this means that one can (almost) always return to a favorite recording and play it as many times as one finds edifying, whereas the concert hall, opera house, or most any other performance […]