Category: Activism & Civic Engagement
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You’re Canceled, Now Get Off My Timeline!!!
In today’s society, in the digital age, everyone is very vocal about what or whomever they are in support of and what they are against. Everyday there are new terms to describe the social media world and how the world works. For example, “tea” is referring to gossip and people sharing gossip. Other terms you […]
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Technology and Democracy: A New Dystopia?
It can be hard to tell to tell what direction a revolution is moving in when you’re standing in the middle of one. Such is the case as we look at the last four years of politics in the United States and the influence of social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook […]
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Scrabble and Banned Words Pt.1
As part of a HASTAC research group at the University of Texas at Dallas, our group has begun to explore ways to parse the inflammatory and conflicting assertions around the use of specific words within paperwork at the CDC. A total of seven words, such as “evidence-based”, “transgender”, “diversity” and “vulnerable”, were specified as being […]
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Welcome to SurvDH!
Welcome to SurvDH! SurvDH is a community of scholars dedicated to exploring the relationship between surveillance and the humanities, using an anti-colonial framework to analyze the ethics surrounding physical and digital surveillance methods, such as the use of algorithms, biometrics, social media, search engines, smart devices, and DNA. We examine the ways in which communities […]
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Torn Apart / Separados Call for Contributors and Reviewers
Torn Apart / Separados (http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/torn-apart/index.html) is inviting contributors and reviewers to help us in several ways (sending feedback and/or adding information and reviewing our crowdsourced lists): FEEDBACK 1. Peer review of certain sections of the project, offer feedback on how effectively we articulated the purpose of the project, the experience of undertaking research, the decisions we made while […]
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“Louis Armstrong and the Cold War: The Real Ambassador” by Damele Elliott Collier
NOTE: I am posting this on behalf of Damele Elliott Collier per her email request. All content of this post beyond this disclaimer is the intellectual property of Damele Elliott Collier and thus, not my own. ———————————————————————————— ABSTRACT Using the platform of Prezi, I have compiled a series of videos that portray the time that Louis “Satchmo” […]
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Black List: New York
Please find below the link to a Google Maps-hosted map, entitled Black List: New York. Black List: New York is an attempt to make present the past Cold War-era FBI surveillance of three black radical women: Claudia Jones, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Childress. Alongside this map I have included a B-side essay of sorts that […]
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Can We Do Better Than a 10 Year Gap in Knowledge (re: digital privacy, ethics, etc)?
I have been chewing on a topic and I could use others’ help. I, like many others, am frustrated by the enormous time gap between scholarly understanding of the privacy issues in digital media technology here in the U.S. and public and political awareness. This is an area of research and teaching for me, so I’ve […]
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“Scholar, Speaker, and Strategist:” An Interview with Marcia Chatelain
Marcia Chatelain is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and was previously Assistant Professor of Honors at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. In 2016, the Chronicle of Higher Education named her a Top Influencer in Higher Education. She is a Harry S. Truman […]
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“Blacklisted” Recap March 6, 2018 Sojourning while Young, Gifted, Black and Immigrant: Claudia Jones and left Black feminism in the 1950s
Recap 3/6/18 Theme: “The Sojourners: Women, Activism, Communism, Immigration, Deportation” Last Tuesday on March 6, 2018—just two days before International Woman’s Day— “BlackListed” discussed the role of the Black feminist tradition as it relates to the work and life of Black woman Communist and theorist, Claudia Jones. I knew that when I recommended, in what […]