Here’s where I’m going this weekend: The Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston is excited to host a two-day conference March 24-25th, 2017. The theme of the 12th Social Theory Forum will center on interdisciplinary scholarship on race and the legacy of American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois. During his long and productive life as a scholarRead More “DuBois, Digitality and The Color Line in the 21st Century”
Tag Archives: Digital Sociologies
Racism With No Racists: The President Trump Conundrum
President-elect Donald Trump ran on a fundamentally racist platform. President-elect Donald Trump promulgated the idea that Mexicans are rapists, blacks are trapped in inner cities, Muslims are terrorists and that America could only be great “again” by becoming what it was in the 1950s when all manner of de facto and de rigeur racism wasRead More “Racism With No Racists: The President Trump Conundrum”
Critical Learning in the Modern University
I had a great time with the Digital Pedagogy Lab yesterday. I hope to get back a bit more before it wraps up Friday. My keynote discusses our experiences launching the VCU SOCY Digital Sociology program as a case of innovation in the modern, corporate university. This is one of the most practical, engaging learningRead More “Critical Learning in the Modern University”
Discussing “Race, Gender and Deviance in Xbox Live” at #SSS2016
I am in Atlanta, Georgia for the 2016 Southern Sociological Society conference. I’ll be doing a couple of talks while here. The first is a discussion of Kishonna L. Gray’s “Race, Gender and Deviance in Xbox Live”. Kishonna’s book contributes to what I hope is a growing literature that bridges sociology of race and digitalRead More “Discussing “Race, Gender and Deviance in Xbox Live” at #SSS2016”
When Your Curriculum Has Been Tumblrized
I teach three core courses: an undergraduate seminar in race, a graduate seminar in race, and a graduate seminar in digital sociology. This post is about my experience teaching the first. My academic training is in political economies and inequalities. My intellectual training has always emerged from and been filtered through an intersectional framework. That’s how I endRead More “When Your Curriculum Has Been Tumblrized”
The Three Rs in 2015: Reading, ‘Riting and Researching
This is the obligatory end-of-year essay. In 2015, I finished a seven-year-long research project called my doctoral dissertation. The study analyzes why for-profit colleges were the singular form of higher education expansion in the late 20th and early 21st century in the U.S. Data are from: interviews with for-profit college executives, students enrolled in the fastest-growing sub-sectorRead More “The Three Rs in 2015: Reading, ‘Riting and Researching”
Becoming An Advisor
If you have been keeping track, I’m now an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. I’m also a faculty associate at the Berkman Institute for Internet & Society. And, I’m a contributing editor at Dissent and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. It’s a lot. I love it all. This post is aboutRead More “Becoming An Advisor”
Nascent Thoughts on Text Analysis Across Disciplines
I had cause to reflect on this recently. The following essay is a rough draft but a recent book review of Franco Moretti’s latest brought it to mind. More Scale, More Questions: Observations From Sociology Tressie McMillan Cottom Much of the debate about the whys and what-fors of textual analysis in the age of massiveRead More “Nascent Thoughts on Text Analysis Across Disciplines”
How I Read “Between The World and Me”
Editors at The Atlantic invited me to review Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between The World and Me”. It’s a three week book club. Today marks the second week. The invitation came in on a Thursday, I think. The first review was to go live on the following Monday. I’m a few months out of grad school readingRead More “How I Read “Between The World and Me””
New Topics in Social Computing: Data and Education
I have the great pleasure of being in conversation with some cool folks over at Eyebeam this evening. Sava Saheli Singh, Karen Gregory and I will be talking about data and education. We’ve been sending great emails back and forth. I feel confident saying we’re all interpreting those concepts broadly and deeply. Karen gave meRead More “New Topics in Social Computing: Data and Education”