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inquiline

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#STS professor #InfrastructureStudies #Commodon (~ anthro geog envhist ?)
AAUP-AFT

Here: magpie, general nonsense, mouthing off, gloomy, inner monologue, books/reading, boosts #ToxicLA #HigherEdWorkersUnite #asstodon

My new 📙 OIL BEACH is out now!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

posts ≠ endorsements
pers acct, obvs

header: camel made of colorful post-consumer plastic, Cynthia Minet

profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped)

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"These victories were made possible because workers united around demands that focused on raising up the pay, dignity, and equality of those stuck in the lowest job tiers (those often categorized as “temps” or “part-time”)—undermining the “divide and rule” strategy of management.

The tiering of work, as it turns out, is NOT unique to academia."

https://www.fsu.umb.edu/content/point-other-side-tracks

@academicchatter @HigherEdLabor

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Nice short piece on environmental historians and policymaking, open access:

"Environmental historians, policy, and governance", by Alessandro Antonello and Margaret Cook

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003189350-32/environmental-historians-policy-governance-alessandro-antonello-margaret-cook

@histodons @sts

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Does anyone have any references for interpretive social science(ish) papers that use public comments (as in a federal register) as data? Or perhaps any methods papers that address using public comments? (Have I asked this already?) TIA!

@academicchatter @communicationscholars @sts

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Do we have a hashtag for academic advice? Mine today is:

Keep in mind that while it’s nice to write narratively, a dissertation is fundamentally a “prove yourself” exercise and readers (committee) want to see you demonstrating knowledge of a body of secondary literature and then placing your study within it. In other words, you’ll need to be a bit heavyhanded with wielding literature to satisfy the genre requirement.

@academicchatter

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folks: Please consider signing and widely sharing this letter re long-term ceasefire & just solution in with university colleagues in New England, ideally before 10am on Monday Dec. 4, which is when it will be sent to US Senators representing New England states. The form will continue collecting signatures thereafter.

Note that signatories do NOT have to be US citizens, but must be a resident of CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, or VT.

🔁 welcome!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0z2XyleqW_4hIm_HfeIVK9cAIz4BPuaOFpTvNosfn2FhdLg/viewform

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folks: Please consider signing and widely sharing this letter re long-term ceasefire & just solution in Gaza with university colleagues in New England, ideally before 10am on Monday Dec. 4, which is when it will be sent to US Senators representing New England states. The form will continue collecting signatures thereafter.

Note that signatories do NOT have to be US citizens, but must be a resident of CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, or VT.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0z2XyleqW_4hIm_HfeIVK9cAIz4BPuaOFpTvNosfn2FhdLg/viewform

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In re. what happened at , of possible interest to community:

https://www.natcom.org/press-room/open-letter-membership-national-communication-association-nca-executive-committee

@communicationscholars

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Does anyone have a link to good ethical guidance to including public social media posts as evidence of existing problems in a system or other ways you could use them to make an argument? Citation, of course, but are there permissions issues and other things to keep in mind when pointing to something posted on public social media platforms, fora, email lists?

@academicchatter

inquiline,
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@ml @communicationscholars , Suggestions?

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Someone else just gave me this idea:

If you work for an outlet or publication that’s pulling together an end-of-year book list, I’d love to get you a review copy of for consideration. Let me know! 🛢️ 🏖️ 📙

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

@bookstodon

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Some days most of what you get done is spend the afternoon racking your brains for a reference, but then you finally get it:

Latina/o/e technoscience: Labor, race, and gender in cybernetics and computing by Iván Chaar López

The article follows closely the role of Arturo Rosenblueth in development of cybernetics & of Mexican women workers in computer semiconductor assembly.. Latina/o/es as unaccounted entities in the infrastructural assemblage of cybernetics

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127221108515

#STS @sts

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Just listened to a very interesting talk on Linux & IBM, excavating the corporate underwriting of development, by Davide Carpano at UCSD Science Studies. This is a published companion piece, "Chromium as a tool of logistical power: A material political economy of open-source"

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517231182399


@sts @communicationscholars

inquiline,
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Incidentally: is there consensus on using hashtags OR the group tools; or hashtags AND the group tools, as I just did?

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Wow, , are you tracking what happened at ? (Are any of you still here??) Apparently the conf theme was "freedom" but the org's leadership canceled a presidential address by Prof. Walid Afifi because he was going to endorse Palestinian freedom?

If anyone has info abt a response, pls share?

@academicchatter @communicationscholars

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Wow, , are you tracking what happened at ? (Are any of you still here??) Apparently the conf theme was "freedom" but the org's leadership canceled a presidential address by Prof. Walid Afifi because he was going to endorse Palestinian freedom?
@academicchatter

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"Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, & developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality.. Narratives about "equalizing" potential of digital tech ignore circumstances that create such inequality as well as potentially violent role of tech in their lives"

In Defense of Solidarity & Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34851

@sts @communicationscholars

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"Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality... In this book, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle argues that these efforts have given rise to an idealized, female economic figure..."

In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34851

@sts @communicationscholars

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NB: if faculty do have time to connect with you before you apply to a doctoral program, take it as a good sign; but do not take it as a bad sign (necessarily) if they don't. A lot of people get too many requests to check in one on one at that stage.
@academicchatter

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In case this is helpful, a wee template for job talks:

(0, brief & splashy narrative intro)

1, main contribution of research (area of work + significance, introduce argument)

2, situate what you're doing in lit, approachable to non-specialists

3, methods, briefly (don't skip, don't get bogged down)

4, concrete examples/data, not too much, preferably relatively lively & accessible

5, re-state argument + significance in different terms

6, future directions/trajectory

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inquiline, to random
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I HATE to link to that "X" site but! protesters at the Port of Oakland are trying to block a ship set for Israel 👀 🚢

This is what we mean when we say that ports are chokepoints.

🧵: https://x.com/markmisoshnik/status/1720477129694232882?s=20

inquiline,
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Context on dockworkers getting involved in freedom struggles:
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p083761

#Unions #Shipping @histodons #InfrastructureStudies #LaborStudies

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Did someone on here say they were thinking or reading about a connection btwn the "user turn" in STS and neoliberalism, or did I hallucinate that? @sts

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Lazyfedi @sts @histodons query:

Anyone got a handy ref on poisoning rivers in earlier industrial eras, like runoff from leather tanning or dyeworks in the eastern US or England? *The earlier, the better. TIA!

(pls don't reply-all to the group tools so we don't spam 'em)

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"if we look at independent, digital producers and distributors (channels), we can see hope for change"

Reading @ajescoffery on "Intersectional Distribution". (It's about televisual media but I picked it up for a draft about this here Mastodon network)

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62191941f0a1203e25aba925/t/62bf22bbcb0fdb7716e41ae5/1656693435703/Intersectional+Distribution.pdf

@communicationscholars

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Thank you & Ryan Boyd for this very thoughtful review of !! So honored 😊

"[Dunbar-Hester] makes no promises about the future, and she is not in the business of bromides. But when your economic system is suicidal—when the ordinary business of procuring goods and services is boiling the planet to death—there is no better basis for that than hopeful solidarity, and no option but action"

https://www.publicbooks.org/oil-and-injury-in-los-angeles/

@UChicagoPress @josephcalamia @sts @communicationscholars

inquiline,
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"If you live along the networks that bring fresh goods to market, commodities might mean you get lung cancer, or your child develops asthma, or your partner suffers from disabling migraines.

Knowledge of this violence hasn’t led to real change to port operations. But it has generated a ton of PR where the promise of “clean” technology, renewable fuels, and fluid silicon logistics will somehow allow capitalism to function without killing what’s left of the world...

https://www.publicbooks.org/oil-and-injury-in-los-angeles/

inquiline,
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"Dunbar-Hester underscores that this is almost entirely bullshit. ..

What would real change look like? Dunbar-Hester, who I suspect is at heart a port abolitionist, doesn’t offer a specific plan of action. But it would be unfair to expect that, because that’s not Oil Beach’s critical intent. Besides, honestly, what is one work of public scholarship going to accomplish if the other side—the side that doesn’t want to change—has all the money and the security services? ...

inquiline,
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"However, she does offer glimpses of sustainable, just futures.

All of them are coalitional and collective, and they entail seeing the Southern Bight as a contentious, multiplicative, ongoing site of struggle."

https://www.publicbooks.org/oil-and-injury-in-los-angeles/

@ecologies @geography

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🎧 tenure-track Assistant Professor of Audio Arts job! (Posting on behalf of someone else, Idk anything about the position)
https://jobs.siu.edu/view-all-jobs-faculty/job-details--fac?jobID=14876&job=assistant-professor-audio-arts-extended-deadline
@soundstudies @academicchatter

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As someone who has really wanted to see thrive on Mastodon, esp local, independent, & noncommercial journalism, this 🧵 is alarming. Thanks @ZekuZelalem for laying it out:

https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/111207150244381427

👀 @communicationscholars

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☠️ On Saturday 14 Oct, I will be on a panel with @pirateradiomap and Stephen Dunifer:
Walking the Plank in the United Stages: Stories of Un/lawful Radio Transmission

We'll be virtual for the in-person event. If anyone on here is in & interested in , come check it out! Free to register

https://events.humanitix.com/amplifytsg-sat14

@soundstudies @communicationscholars @sts

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Reminder about Mastodon "private" messages. Aside from not being end-end-encrypted (and so visible to instance administrators), they CC anyone @-mentioned ANYWHERE in the body of the message (not just those listed at the start).

They are now called "private mentions" rather than "private messages", but if you don't fully understand the semantics, this behavior may be unexpected and/or cause unpleasant side effects.

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@mattblaze Yes. I once accidentally tagged someone who was harassing me, in a DM to my mods about the harassment. The private messages showing up in the same feed as non-private ones has also made my hair stand on end more than once.

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The Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) project is dedicated to building pathways for horizontal collaborations across , , & socio-environmental researchers and community organizers

The SEEKCommons Fellowship is an initiative to bring graduate students & ECRs w new perspectives & voices to socio-environmental research with open technologies

Deadline: Oct 15!

https://seekcommons.org/fellowship-application.html

@sts @academicchatter

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The Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) project is dedicated to building pathways for horizontal collaborations across STS, Open Science (OS), & socio-environmental researchers and community organizers

The SEEKCommons Fellowship is an initiative to bring graduate students & ECRs w new perspectives & voices to socio-environmental research with open technologies

Deadline: Oct 15!

https://seekcommons.org/fellowship-application.html

@sts #STS #EnvStudies @academicchatter

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New book by @firuzehshokvalle looks great!

"Drawing on fieldwork in Costa Rica and a transnational feminist digital organization, Shokooh Valle explores the ways that feminist activists, using digital technologies as well as a collective politics that prioritize solidarity and pleasure, advance a new feminist technopolitics"

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34851
@sts @communicationscholars

inquiline, to sts
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New book by @firuzehshokvalle looks great!

"Drawing on fieldwork in Costa Rica and a transnational feminist digital organization, Shokooh Valle explores the ways that feminist activists, using digital technologies as well as a collective politics that prioritize solidarity and pleasure, advance a new feminist technopolitics"

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34851
@sts @commodon

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🛢️ 🎥 Reminder: Individual paper and panel proposals for the Petrocultures 2024 conference in at USC are due September 15! Details here:

https://www.petrocultures2024.com/los-angeles.html

@academicchatter

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Who's in @geography, working on animal migration & climate change, & based in N America? Feel free to suggest others or yourself. (I can mostly think of people working on this topic on other continents.) TIA!

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New 📘, looks excellent!

Mah juxtaposes the petrochemical industry’s destructive corporate worldviews with environmental justice struggles in the US, China, and Europe: multiscalar activism—a form of collective resistance that spans local, regional, national, and planetary sites and scales and addresses the interconnected issues of , , , health, extraction, land rights, workers’ rights, systemic , and toxic

https://www.dukeupress.edu/petrochemical-planet

inquiline,
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I have not read this yet but looks like a LOT of resonance with . "Most large petrochemical facilities are located in coastal regions, near to ports, for access to shipping lines. Tightly enclosed behind security gates, they resemble cities with tall towers and giant cylindrical storage tanks. They flare and steam and crackle.
How do these petrochemical plants relate to the ports? How are they regulated? Who are
the main global corporate players? Who are the biggest polluters?"

inquiline,
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If anyone for some reason is looking for a review essay assignment on , , , Mah's Petrochemical Planet would go well with Oil Beach and Negative Ecologies by David Bond.

@academicchatter @geography

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There are at least a couple reasons non-minoritized users here "don't see the racism here". One is technical, sometimes: not all replies are visible for all users, etc.

The other is not: sometimes racisms are subtle, polite, dog-whistle-y, leaning hard on plausible deniability, etc.

Anyway if minoritized users here say they see/are subjected to racism here, it's helpful to just believe that and keep one's ears and eyes open. Whether it's happening isn't a useful point of entry.

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My internet goofing off today caused me to bump into this photo collection, which looks neat:

"the daily life, work, and activities of the residents of the border region with an emphasis on County and , between 1850 and 1940. Images show the development of aviation, business, neighborhoods, beaches and harbors, water and transportation"

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0290182t/?&brand=oac4

@academicchatter

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Sure, let's make more announcements at 8:30pm on a Tuesday night, why not.

Hey, people! I'm on the editorial board of : The Journal of Sound and Culture, and we are seeking submissions. Please think about putting something in if you are an academic, artist, or ghastly hybrid working on

https://online.ucpress.edu/res/pages/About

@academicchatter @ecologies

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Sure, let's make more announcements at 8:30pm on a Tuesday night, why not.

Hey, people! I'm on the editorial board of Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, and we are seeking submissions. Please think about putting something in if you are an academic, artist, or ghastly hybrid working on

https://online.ucpress.edu/res/pages/About

@academicchatter @ecologies

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Big student protests at #WVU in response to the admin's bloodletting of the academic mission of the university:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2023/08/22/hundreds-students-protest-wvus-proposed-program-and-faculty

#HigherEd @academicsunite #HigherEdWorkersUnite

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Can someone give me some hashtags to follow out here?

inquiline,
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@doikayt for what areas of interest? i'm a fan of

inquiline,
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@doikayt you and i may be in a minority but i don't think those are dull at all! i miss trade press on logistics/transpo from the other site a lot

what i'd do is 1st, follow tags for all those topics you mention; & hope they lead to people to follow; & that those people's boost and interactions lead to other people

maybe update yr bio to incl those topics to help ppl w shared interests discover you, too

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