Sarah E. Parkinson

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Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Political Science & SAIS 


I study the Middle East & North Africa, org politics, disasters, violence, research methods & ethics. Co-founder of Advancing Research on Conflict. EMT. Lover of sci-fi. She/her, opinions mine 🏳️‍🌈


Book "Beyond the Lines: Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon" (open access soon): http://bit.ly/3VEw64B

https://www.sarahparkinson.com


http://advancingconflictresearch.com

Sarah E. ParkinsonJan 9, 2023
Show threadJameel JafferJan 9, 2023
@knightcolumbia And here's our statement on the cert denial: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/knight-institute-comments-on-supreme-courts-denial-of-cert-in-nso-v-whatsapp
Knight Institute Comments on Supreme Court’s Denial of Cert in NSO v. WhatsApp

Show threadSarah E. ParkinsonJan 9, 2023
@efarris necessary use of deception means you'd be sitting on it for at least a year 😂
Show threadSarah E. ParkinsonJan 9, 2023
@efarris To many people, a document of that length that is covered in boilerplate legalese just feels threatening; it inevitably sounds like it’s made to protect the distributing entity (basically your point about terms and conditions) and not the participant. Honestly I want someone to do an experiment testing different approaches to consent in terms of what people actually understand and retain. Like do many informed consent procedures actually impede genuine informed consent?
Sarah E. ParkinsonJan 9, 2023
Emily FarrisJan 5, 2023
The informed consent document our IRB wants us to use is 9 pages long. Nearly 4000 words. These consent documents are like terms and conditions - they aren't actually informing people.
Sarah E. ParkinsonJan 5, 2023

Statistics that have stopped me in my tracks during my research on civil defense/emergency response:

"In predominantly Latinx sections of the Lower East Side [of Manhattan], 57% of residents were displaced by fire, eviction, and landlord abandonment between 1970 and 1980."

#sociology #PoliticalScience #cities #housing

From https://jewishcurrents.org/edifice-complex

Edifice Complex

Restoring the term “burnout” to its roots in landlord arson puts the dispossession of poor city dwellers at its center.

Jewish Currents
Sarah E. ParkinsonDec 29, 2022
Lily MasonDec 29, 2022
In my 20s I had a low-level clerical job offer rescinded because I had overstated the number of weeks I had previously worked as a restaurant hostess (by 2 weeks, in a typo). Seems like maybe Congress could have slightly more stringent qualification requirements.
Sarah E. ParkinsonDec 29, 2022
Naunihal SinghDec 28, 2022

TLDR: Mastodon is very white, male, status quo, global north, and designed in a way to limit its potential for use in social movements.

Mastodon feels very different from Twitter, deliberately. It is truly like Live Journal. It is about people who are happy with their social circle and who think of virality and discoverability as a problem. They just want to communicate with the people they know, and limit other things. Ironically, it is more like a private gathering than a public space.

Sarah E. ParkinsonDec 29, 2022
Colin HenryDec 29, 2022

in this ep of #OnTheMedia it's suggested that #BlackLivesMatter or #MeToo movements wouldn't have existed without virality & context collapse available on Twitter.

i have to disagree.
👉 social movements are flexible things & adapt to different media environs. these movements were shaped by Twitter architecture, not determined by it
👉 these movements in particular may have been *more* successful if they didn't have to depend on nonconsensual virality & context collapse

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-mastodon-may-take-twitters-weary

Mastodon: The Platform Taking Twitter's Worn and Weary | On the Media | WNYC Studios

What happens when you slow down socializing?

WNYC Studios
Sarah E. ParkinsonDec 28, 2022
TProphetDec 28, 2022
1/ A lot of people have been asking for an explainer on what is going on with Southwest Airlines and the massive meltdown that occurred. Hi, I'm TProphet. I write the Seat 31B travel blog (https://www.seat31b.com) and closely follow the airline industry. More importantly, I have a friend whom Southwest abandoned in Las Vegas until New Year's (along with his cat), and there was literally nothing I could do for him. Ready? Let's dive in.
Seat 31B – The World In Economy Class

Sarah E. ParkinsonDec 27, 2022
kim yi dionne (she/her)Dec 27, 2022
Honest question: If the US had a better rail system--capable of convenient passenger travel--would we be having similar delay/cancellation issues with trains that we're currently having with planes?