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Surveillance Rhetorics Newsletter – Issue 1
Early on in my coursework I started to examine the rhetorical implications of surveillance, thinking epitomized by the rather broad question: “What can rhetoric tell us about surveillance and also what can surveillance tell us about rhetoric.” This series of newsletters is an attempt to answer this question. I plan to pull from an interdisciplinary…
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Hi Everyone! I’m the new HASTAC Scholars Director!
My name is Adashima. As part of my Futures Initiative Fellowship, I will be serving as the new HASTAC Scholars Director. I’m very excited about the opportunity to collaborate with you all. I know that we will have a productive year. So, a bit about me. I’m part of the Adjunct Faculty at NYU and…
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Is College Worth It? People Who Are Worth A Lot Think So!
[Illustration from “You Draw It: How Family Income Predicts Children’s CollegeChances,” By Gregor Aisch, Amanda Cox, and Kevin Quealy, New York Times, May 28, 2015. https://nyti.ms/2jX8zue ]* Someone forgot to tell the rich and powerful that college isn’t worth anything. I asked on Twitter: “Does anyone know a study that shows what percentage of…
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Not All Things are Fair… Yet Education Should Be
Due to the lack of federal funding teachers have been forced to use money out of their own pockets to purchase basic supplies for their class to provide a suitable education for the students. Even the President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten states, “There is no other job I know of where…
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Is Segregation Still Alive In The Classroom?
Is Segregation Still Alive In The Classroom? For over 50 years segregation has ended. However, is when we step into classrooms, walk on school campuses, look at test scores or even athletics programs, we realize segregation is still present. Indeed, there are vastly different opportunities available to students and teachers from less affluent backgrounds and…
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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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New Book! ~ Generation Now: Millennials Call for Social Change
In the spring of 2018, a group of Union College students took my class called “Millennials and Social Change”. They were in for a surprise. They registered for a course about the rise of the everyday changemaker. It was a class that focused on the current student generation, the Millennials (b. 1980-2000), and the changes…
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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…