"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."
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!
I downloaded a bunch of comments for a project @nicole_c_nelson and I are working on together... and then set them aside for more than a year now while we followed other strands. So I don't have any methods lit off hand (though Nicole might), but I have some thoughts about their quirks as data sets, and I'm curious what you're running into!
I did in my dissertation. I just did a standard open coding on a small subset to establish a code book and then did a closed coding on it for analysis. Is that helpful?
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.
@inquiline@academicchatter exactly. At some point a friend of mine told me "in the end, a phd thesis is an exercise and you need to show that you can do it.". It was a very helpful sentence that I kept reminding myself when I was struggling with it.
#HigherEd 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.
#HigherEd 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.
@inquiline@communicationscholars thanks for sharing this- I had completely missed the story of the canceled presidential address at the NCA. I am very grateful to Ryan Quinn for writing this InsideHigherEd article, which includes more details of what happened.
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 #OilBeach for consideration. Let me know! 🛢️ 🏖️ 📙
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
Just listened to a very interesting talk on Linux & IBM, excavating the corporate underwriting of #FOSS 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"
Wow, #Commodon, are you tracking what happened at #NCA? (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?
Wow, #Commodon, are you tracking what happened at #NCA? (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
"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
"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
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
When I was a grad student, a few decades ago, the primary problem was that my thesis advisor slept with and then married the grad student fiance of another grad student (who he had arranged a trip for to get him out of the way). I got out of academia ABD and I think it was a pretty good choice.