Dayna- I totally support this point: "Instead, I suggest we get creative, and engage directly with individuals and groups who are often the subject of our research." And I also want to call attention to what a bold statement it is. For scholars ...
Mark- great finale for the week. That interview with the Bennus raises a ton of interesting points. Pierre's comment about fine art living on the internet certainly applies to scholarship (like your interview with him) as well- that putting it on the ...
Great post, Suzanne. That Inside Higher Ed article was fascinating. And stupefying. This quote about the criticism of Ada struck me: "They have no real knowledge of how academia works, how research works, how things get published, how colleagues in a ...
Catherine- I think your post calls attention not only to the institutional boundaries between scholarship and fandom, but also between theory and practice. Within the academy there exist such strict divisions between the PhDs and the MFAs- the separation ...
Pam, very interesting post. And Vicki, yes- the points you raised about self-reflection are a thematic element I did not anticipate ahead of this week. Following Dayna's post yesterday, there is a certain vulnerability for ourselves and our work when ...
It would be interesting to inquire how a game’s genre might affect the mapping of sympathies. Thinking about Fallout specifically, there is very little substance to the game’s protagonist aside from what is chosen by the player him or herself – gender and ...
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