My review of @rwg's new book "Move Slowly and Build Bridges" is now published in Convergence

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565251409858

In my draft/notes, I had written "this book slaps and everyone should read it because what is thing I feel... hope? optimism? That's been a long time overdue"

What I actually ended up writing was: "A more just, equitable, and inclusive online world is not only possible, but it is already being created."

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Aymar Jéan Escoffery's (@ajescoffery) new book, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture, is now out! An incredibly important title that reimagines how movies, TV, and a broader array of media can be made and distributed in ways that include more people and move beyond the extractive models so common to contemporary streaming and social media. #OpenAccess

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553261/reparative-media/

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🚨 Five fully-funded PhD lines 🚨 are currently open in the Media, Technology & Democracy program at American University School of Communication (@AU_MTD).

Full tuition plus stipend, benefits, and the chance to work with folks like @adriennemassanari, @bstokes, @ch_butkowski, @paufder, @rohangrover, me, and many more.

Apply here:

https://www.american.edu/soc/communication-studies/phd/

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I'd been hearing about Wiki Edu and the Wikipedia Assignment on various listservs for a while, and this past semester I ran it for the first time with my "Data and Society" class, and *wow* it is so incredible! We all trained to become Wikipedia editors and students contributed to a range of articles while thinking through content gaps, representational politics, research/citation practices, and the presumed "objectivity" of data.

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RE: https://fediscience.org/@JohannesBreuer/115571076834078410

Our survey on research practices in Computational Communication Science is still open for participation!
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As the Academic Job Market Season™ progresses and as some lucky folks may be receiving offers and thinking through the whole negotiation process, here's some info about what I got when I was hired last year (private SLAC in Virginia):

$85,000 base salary (paid over 10 or 12 months), $6,000 guaranteed each summer for the first 2 years, $20,000 in start-up research funds.

#academia #higherEducation #jobMarket #commodon