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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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Ann Petry Un-Surveilled: Strategy and Survival for Black Leftists During the Cold War
Charlene Obernauer Professor Shelly Eversley and Professor Cathy Davidson EGL 80300: Blacklisted May 24, 2018 Ann Petry Un-Surveilled: Strategy and Survival for Black Leftists During the Cold War During the Cold War, surveillance was a way of life for leftists in the United States, but particularly for black leftists. Surveillance was so ubiquitous among…
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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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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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It Is a Busy Time for Tech & Ethics
Recently we have seen a lot of bad news about digital technologies, social media platforms, and data breeches. A part of me hesitates to call it ‘news’ since most of what’s now part of public/popular knowledge has been known to those who work on social technology and information technology research for some time (as in a…
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SSRC Works with Facebook To Make Data Available for Ethically Responsible Research
Dr. Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and a member of HASTAC’s Council of Advisors, today announced a crucial new initiative to study, with responsible and ethical practices, social media data. Congratulations and gratitude to SSRC for taking this crucially important step. Speaking personally: I’m less excited about researchers studying the…
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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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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…