There’s a great article in The Nation this week about social media and ad hoc credit scoring. Can Facebook assign you a score you don’t know about but that determines your life chances? Traditional credit scores like your FICO or your Beacon score can determine your life chances. By life chances, we generally mean howRead More “Credit Scores, Life Chances, and Algorithms”
Yearly Archives: 2015
Everything But The Burden: Publics, Public Scholarship, And Institutions
Institutions are inherently conservative. They are built to last. One way that institutions last is by diffusing threats to the status quo across org charts, rules, forms, email chains and meetings. Lots and lots of meetings. That is why it is ridiculous to expect college institutions to be radical. But, that is the claim thrownRead More “Everything But The Burden: Publics, Public Scholarship, And Institutions”
It Is Hard To Write While I’m Crying
It is hard to write while I am crying so this will be short. Plus, everybody else has already written All The Things. I just want to park a short reflection about Freddie Gray, Baltimore and our state of things more broadly. I spent the day yesterday arguing with, well, everybody (it felt like) aboutRead More “It Is Hard To Write While I’m Crying”
Writing About Living: My Corinthian Comments
These are not the kinds of things that academics admit to. That is why I have spent two years tied up in knots about merging my lived experiences with my data. But, even if I didn’t have years of experience working in for-profit colleges I would be closer to recent stories than most. My cousinRead More “Writing About Living: My Corinthian Comments”
Fresh Off The [Digital] Presses
My latest paper is out with ADA: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology. This paper began with a discussion on Twitter, transitioned to a blog post here, morphed into an empirical question in comment sections and finally became what it is presently, i.e. a paper about academic capitalism + attention economies + structural marginality.Read More “Fresh Off The [Digital] Presses”
Acknowledgements
It seemed only right that I share my dissertation acknowledgements seeing as how many of you, out there and in here, helped me on this journey. Thank you. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS There simply is not enough space for me to thank the many people who helped me make it this far but that will not stop meRead More “Acknowledgements”
Forced Context Collapse or The Right to Hide in Plain Sight
There is a whole brand of (mostly digital) journalism that culls social media content for stories. We can argue about the extent to which that is reporting as opposed to search engine optimization but it is fairly safe to say that this is a set of activities happening in the media domain. Almost from theRead More “Forced Context Collapse or The Right to Hide in Plain Sight”
Creating #Havoc at #VCUSOCY
It may surprise you to learn that I live a great deal of my life off-line. I know, I know, hear me out on this fantastical possibility. Recently, I’ve been offline meeting some of the most brilliant scholars across the country and I am beyond pleased to say that I have found a home amongRead More “Creating #Havoc at #VCUSOCY”