Category: Diversity & Equality
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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 Hackathon & HASTAC Meet-up Recap
Map of allies Post by Alex Gil and Roopika Risam Torn Apart / Separados, which launched on July 25th, is a set of rapid response data visualizations created by a small team of researchers using data they collected on immigrant detention over a 7-day period. The team behind the project is Manan Ahmed, Maira Alvarez, Sylvia Fernandez, […]
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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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On the Chilean Feminist Movement & STS
ASU scholar and graduate student in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Martin Perez Comisso (@mapc), has written on the feminist movement in Chile and feminist STS (Science and Technology Studies) in “Feminism enacted: A/n (un)situated case to introduce (Chilean) feminist perspectives to STS folks” on Medium: “I’m looking at a revolution from a screen. In […]
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Student Food Insecurity and What To Do About It: #RealCollege Launches a Campaign for Real Change
#RealCollege: Voices for Change[realcollege.org] is a national campaign and call to action for today’s college student, sharing insights into balancing work, home responsibilities and academics while contending with poverty and the “hassle factors” of policies, procedures and norms while attempting to earn a college degree. As Prof Sara Goldrick-Rab has noted in recent correspondence with #RealCollege […]
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Identity, Intersection, Stigma, Empowerment
***This blog post contains conversation of topics including sexual assault and invisible illnesses. Please engage in self-care when reading or holding discussions about this post. *** Every spring at Texas State University, the Communication Studies Department takes a week to celebrate our discipline and its range of reach by bringing in guest speakers and putting […]
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Identity, Intersection, Stigma, Empowerment
***This blog post contains conversation of topics including sexual assault and invisible illnesses. Please engage in self-care when reading or holding discussions about this post. *** Logan Carpenter (BA, Arizona State University, 2015) is a graduate student in the Department of Communication Studies at Texas State University. Correspondence: lac243@txstate.edu. HASTAC: https://www.hastac.org/u/logancarpenter Lauren Lee (BA, Texas […]
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The Lemon Project Symposium, March 16-17, 2018
I love conferences. In fact, conferences are probably my favorite part of being an academic. However, it’s not just going to conferences that I like– it’s being a part of the university hosting them. I love welcoming people to my university who are here for intellectual conversations. It’s about the ideas that fly in a […]
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In Search of Justice
Check out Kenneth Chamberlains’s story about police brutality here: Peace.
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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 […]