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aram

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Writer, professor, musician.

The lesser ½ of Dunia & Aram.
The lesser ½ of https://zirk.us/@RASinn.
The lesser ⅛ of Comm Studies @ AU.

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kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon As we approach the end of 2023, I would love to know about the very best books you read this year. (They don't have to have been published in 2023 for your "best of" list.)

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon for your consideration... https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Second-Chance-for-Yesterday/R-A-Sinn/9781786188274

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Thanks! FWIW it got a starred review in Publishers Weekly and made the Scientific American Best of 2023 list. Hope you get a chance to read it!

aram, to academicchatter
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I hate that I have to send emails like this. But that's what it's come to, isn't it.

@academicchatter

aram, to bookstodon
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I was interviewed with @rachelcleves about our new #scifi #sff novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY (written jointly as @RASinn) in the new American University Magazine. Love the kicker. https://www.american.edu/magazine/article/biblio-file-a-second-chance-for-yesterday.cfm #bookstodon @bookstodon @sciencefiction

aram, to bookstodon
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📚🎄🎁 Holiday gift alert 🎁🎄📚

For the #SciFi nerd in your life: Buy them the book that @Locusmag called a "provocative, assured, compelling debut novel," and that @publisherswkly gave a ⭐'d review: A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY by @RASinn: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Second-Chance-for-Yesterday/R-A-Sinn/9781786188274 #bookstodon #sff @bookstodon

aram, to bookstodon
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New article from me & @jesse in @RollingStone:

We Spied on Trump’s ‘Southern White House’ From Our Couches

(a preview of our forthcoming @themitpress book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA)

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/data-brokers-trump-tech-spying-privacy-threat-1234897098/

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aram, to academicchatter
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Writing customized questions for my student evals this semester.

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actasociologica, to sociology Danish
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NEW DATA POLICY
In the future, quantitative studies must provide public access to data and code for replication purposes to be accepted for publication in Acta Sociologica. This initiative aims to increase transparency and quality of quantitative sociology. 1/3

https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/ASJ#OpenAccess

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@actasociologica @sociology @academicchatter That's great. What steps are you taking to ensure that human subjects data won't be deanonymized, either through new forensic techniques or through integration between disparate public data sets?

aram, to bookstodon
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Tomorrow 12pm at American University in Washington

A talk by Dr. Arthur Soto-Vásquez: MIGRANT WORLD MAKING

Register for free here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arthur-soto-vasquez-book-talk-migrant-world-making-tickets-753856965477

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aram, to bookstodon
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Spotify users can now listen to the of @rachelcleves's and my new novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY, read by Cindy Kay. Coauthored as @RASinn.

https://open.spotify.com/show/5enA23TBBadQBwChbO6N75 @bookstodon @scifi

aram, to bookstodon
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@rachelcleves I have contributed a three-favourite-book-list to Shepherd, an independent site for generating book recommendations.

Writing together as @RASinn, we chose three of our favorite co-reads this year that captured our shared experiences. Weirdly, none of them were .

https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/f/ra-sinn @bookstodon @scifi

SteveClough, to bookstodon
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So i have just finished reading At The Existentialist Cafe. It is a really good book covering existentialism and phenomenology and the various ideas around it.

If this is your sort of interest, then it is worth a read. It is the stories of half a dozen of the main philosophers of this, and their interactions, so you get something more than reading each of them.

@bookstodon

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@SteveClough @bookstodon +1

aram, to academicchatter
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In the movie I watched last night, the bad tells the brilliant researcher to follow his commands or "I'll send you back to Cornell or whatever hole I found you in. Good luck supporting your lifestyle on an instructor's salary!"

And that's literally the only thing I remember about the movie now.

@academicchatter

aram, to academicsunite
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Harry Bruinius in the Monitor asked me about how the war in and is affecting academic culture, and so I broke my public silence on the issue and said a LOT about it. @academicchatter @academicsunite

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2023/1027/On-Tree-of-Life-anniversary-US-Jews-say-they-feel-more-isolated

aram, to bookstodon
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If you haven't yet read my new novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY (written with @rachelcleves as @RASinn and published by @solarisbooks)...

NOW'S YOUR CHANCE.

From today until the end of the month, Solaris is making new titles available in format for only 99 cents.

Get it here:
https://rebellionpublishing.com/sale/

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aram, to bookstodon
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Love these pics of me, @jesse, @alicetiara, @NTusikov, & Ariane Ollier-Malaterre at the panel at last week. We look so seeeeerious. 👀@themitpress @bookstodon

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aram, to bookstodon
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If you've ever wanted to be a writer, jump on this now:

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aram, to bookstodon
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It's proof editing day 1 for me and @jesse courtesy of @jkehoe and the folks at @mitpress. #AmWriting #AmEditing #bookstodon #author @bookstodon

eugenia_diegoli, to academicchatter Japanese
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In 2022 I was invited to contribute to an edited collection that was supposed to come out within the year. That obv didn’t happen, and I still don’t have a prospective publication date. I feel so frustrated and I regret not sending the piece to a journal. Anyone else with a similar experience? @academicchatter

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@ericsfraga @eugenia_diegoli @academicchatter as a grad student, I submitted a paper that had won a prize at a conference to three different journals (one after the other) and none of them ever got around to reviewing it in the course of five years.

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@ericsfraga @eugenia_diegoli @academicchatter I've still never published that paper.

aram, to academicchatter
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Academics get the shittiest bribes.

@academicchatter @commodon

KitMuse, to bookstodon
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Okay, now I want to know if there are any academic journals devoted to speculative fiction. I know there are the anthologies like BtVS and Philosophy (or the book I have on my TBR, the Religions of Star Trek).

If there isn't, must look up what it takes to start one, because that would certainly fall under the umbrella of something I'm working on.

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@KitMuse @bookstodon Lonny Avi Brooks and I co-edited forum section of IJOC a few years back about what we called "futuretypes" — common tropes and their sociocultural significance. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/issue/view/12 (scroll down to FORUM section)

dbellingradt, to histodons German
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This painting by Peter Cramer is rich in detail, dear - peppercakes, street selling activities in an early modern European urban setting, broadsheets glued to a wall, etc.

But what on earth is the highlighted child transporting on its shoulders? A wooden box full of what? Your help is appreciated! @histodons

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@dbellingradt @histodons yoga mat

aram, to academicchatter
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Please share:
Academic alert at American University in Washington,

Open Rank, Advocacy and Social Impact Communication

https://apply.interfolio.com/131072

@commodon @academicchatter

aram, to academicchatter
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In previous years, I've invited my undergrads to post to Tw*tter during my class sessions, as an alternate way to participate and as a shared (and public) backchannel adding extra digital materials to our conversations.

This year, for obvious reasons, that's impossible, so I'm asking them to do so via Mastodon (which none of my students have used before).

It'll be a little experiement. Let's see whether gets any use from my students.

@commodon @academicchatter

aram,
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@commodon @academicchatter @tstruett ...and as in past semesters, if any legal eagles (looking at you, @icymi_law) see one of my students asking a good question during class, feel free to respond using the hashtag.

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@nellie_m @commodon @academicchatter @tstruett thank you! I haven't tried that... is there a good explainer on this somewhere?

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@commodon @academicchatter @tstruett

Update... 10-15 of my students signed up for Masto (on mastodon.social, which my instance restricts because of spam issues).

I got their handles & followed them, then followed the hashtag, but their posts never showed up.

I tried following the hashtag from my author account @RASinn, also to no avail.

Then I tried doing a hashtag search (without logging in) on mastodon.social & only some of their posts showed up.

Still a few bugs in the system.

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@commodon @academicchatter

I think next week, I'm going to take @nellie_m's advice and try creating a Mastodon group.

@tstruett, @rwg @paufder this'll be useful experience for our WIP article.

aram, to bookstodon
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🚨 Very happy to announce that THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA, to be published by @mitpress next April, is available for pre-sale! 🚨

@jesse & I have been working for years on this project, which feature insights of dozens of experts across the world of technology & culture.

Barnes & Noble is currently offering members a 25% discount on pre-orders using the coupon code PREORDER25, with an additional 10% off for premium members.

Preorder:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-secret-life-of-data-aram-sinnreich/1143793950?ean=9780262048811 @bookstodon

aram,
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@adrishaw @jesse @bookstodon @themitpress Thanks so much, Adrienne! Yes, it's my favorite cover of any of my books thus far. Molly at @themitpress really delivered!

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@andrewiliadis @jesse @bookstodon @themitpress Thanks, Andrew!

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@jaykaydee @jesse @bookstodon @themitpress 😁

owlislost, to bookstodon
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Happy weekend, everyone! What are you ?? I'm reading a bunch of archiving, design, and metadata books for school, but also finally reading Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead, which is amazing of course, and listening to This Time Tomorrow, which is good fun so far and I haven't even gotten to the premise yet. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594998/this-time-tomorrow-by-emma-straub/ I also picked up Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman from the library https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501709845/immigrant-girl-radical-woman/
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@Subumbral @owlislost @bookstodon agreed 💯

Your thoughts on The Orville? (lemmy.world)

When I first started this show I found it to be a really awkward mix of comedy and seriousness. It had some jokes thrown it at the most inopportune times as some kind of comic relief from a really serious situation. Perhaps the first half of the first season was actually a bit rough or maybe the show just grew on me, but by...

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@Izzy true fact: Seth McFarlane developed the show after his friend and collaborator Ahmed Best (of Star Wars) pitched him the idea of a comedic Star Trek clone. It was called "The Nebula." I know because I was personally pitching the sizzle reel for the pilot to branded entertainment clients in 2009.

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@masterairmagic in a word, yes.

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@xankarn @histodons cc @gauthamrao @Sivavaid

aram, to bookstodon
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I need some really great recommendations to keep me company while I isolate with for the next five days. I like literary fiction, thoughtful , inventive takes on genre fiction like detective novels, historical novels, etc. and also anything funny. Hit me. @bookstodon

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