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Lessons from the 2016 US Presidential Election
This was originally published at https://justinepperly.wordpress.com/2016/11/26/post-election-thoughts/ Post Election Thoughts Like you I was truly disgusted with election coverage, results, and resulting coverage of the results, and therefore tried to avoid any discussion of it over the Thanksgiving holiday. This has given me some mental space to really think about what Trump’s victory means: 1. “American Democracy…
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Fighting to Heal: How Survivors are Finding Strength in Martial Arts
After 6 months of collecting stories about why women participate in combat sports, such as Muay Thai, kickboxing, judo, jiu-jitsu, MMA, and more, I started to review my findings and realized, without anticipating it, that many women were sharing stories of overcoming violence and trauma and using martial arts as an outlet and a means of healing.…
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Black Code, Guest Edited by Jessica M. Johnson + Mark Anthony Neal
The Black Scholar is proud to announce the release of “Black Code,” by guest editors Jessica Marie Johnson and Mark Anthony Neal. Johnson and Neal have assembled a collective of digital soothsayers working on the margins of Black Studies, Afrofuturism, radical media, and the digital humanities. Black Code Studies is queer, femme, fugitive, and radical; as…
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Writing A Book In And Of Real Life: An interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom
The name of Tressie McMillan Cottom should be familiar to HASTAC Scholars. She is a HASTAC Steering Committee member. She was on The Daily Show, interviewed by Trevor Noah at http://www.cc.com/video-clips/nsqb7g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tre…. And she is a plenary speaker for this year’s HASTAC conference in Orlando, Florida, from November 2 through November 4, 2017, at http://hastac2017.org. During…
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Pausing to Reflect
This has been… a big year. While the Futures Initiative team and I formally reflect on the past year through the exercise of writing and designing our annual report, and while we plan for an unusual year ahead, I’d like to take a moment and offer a more personal reflection as well. In working on our…
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Mapping the Geography of Racism: Why Deep Dives in Data Matter
Drawing from the work of “Mapping Inequality,” a ProPublica investigative report published earlier this month uncovered a phenomenon similar to redlining in the car insurance industry today. The report found insurers charged premiums that were up to 30 percent higher in minority neighborhoods than in predominantly white neighborhoods with similar rates of accident risk. “As rates have…
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Research Study on the 2017 Women’s March
Hello, HASTAC! My name is Abigail Browning, and as a PhD student at NC State University, I am researching collective action and I am particularly interested in understanding how the Women’s March developed, who participated, and what the impact of the experience was for those who marched. As a result, two of my NCSU colleagues…
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Orwell: The Right to Internet Privacy and Why There May Be Hope Yet (or Not)
Like most who attended high school in the States, I read George Orwell’s proverbial classic Nineteen Eighty-Four as a teenager, and (as every good eighteen-year-old in America should be) was frightened by the book’s implications and depictions of the cultism that can arise in a totalitarian society run by an omnipresent authority figure. Upon discovering…
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LazosNexos Exp1
Some time ago (2014) I proposed the idea of having a cell phone application that would allow you to view the existing relationships in the contact list. The conceptual basis of this work was basically based on the proposal of Bruno Latour's actor network. However, it is complex, it seems, to solve the technical challenges…
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Let’s talk about women…
This post has been a long time coming as I struggled to find the right tone and direction for the anger I felt over the very public silencing of Elizabeth Warren a few weeks back. As Women’s History month approached and murmurs of the March 8th protest gained momentum, I began to think about why…