Featuring Madeleine Bair, Witness; Danny O’Brien, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Endalk Chala, Zone 9 Bloggers; and Tewodros Workneh, UO School of Journalism and Communication. Introduction and moderation by Gabríela Martínez, UO School of Journalism and Communication.
Cosponsored with the UO School of Journalism and Communication.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Wayne Morse Chair visitor during winter term, will offer a lunchtime seminar at the Center for the Study of Women in Society on February 17, 2015, at noon. She will speak on the subject of Slut-Shaming, based on her research on media habits. She comes from a feminist perspective.
She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006), and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory(MIT 2011); she is coeditor (with Tara McPherson and Patrick Jagoda) of a special issue of American Literature entitled New Media and American Literature, coeditor (with Lynne Joyrich) of a special issue of Camera Obscura entitled Race and/as Technology, and coeditor (with Thomas Keenan) of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2005).
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics is dedicated to education and public discussion of current issues in law and politics.
Interested in attending? Please RSVP to csws@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-5015.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 7 p.m. 110 Knight Law Center
Featuring Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of The American Prospect and weekly columnist forThe Washington Post. A frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, in 2009, he was named one of “the most influential commentators in the nation” by The Atlantic Monthly.
He is the author of Who Put The Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?, a biography of Broadway lyricist Yip Harburg. He serves as a vice chair of National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Ada is a feminist multimodal journal dedicated to issues of gender in new media and technology. You can check out previous issues of Ada over on the Fembot website, here.
All students are welcome, and pizza will be provided!
Please contact Carol Stabile with any questions regarding the event, or about Ada in general!
For more information about, Ada, Fembot, and the submission guidelines and/or review process for the upcoming Ada issue check out the following links:
It’s time to brush off that resume, put together a CV, write a compelling cover letter and get a job!
Kristi Lodge, Asst. Director of the Career Connections at the UO Career Center provides practical advice about putting together a CV, including how to incorporate conference presentations, research, publications, and GTF experience.
She’ll also cover how to convert a resume to a CV, tips for writing a cover letter, and where to go if you would like one-on- one assistance during your job search.
Offered by Kim Wollter (Graduate School), Keli Yerian (Linguistics), Katy Lenn (UO Libraries), this workshop is targeted for students just beginning the research and writing process. Topics that will be covered are research strategies, organization strategies, the scholarly writing process, writing techniques, revisions, drop-in appointments with the Graduate School Thesis/Dissertation Editor, university style formatting, and ETD submission.
Writers, researchers, coders, students: have you ever gone to Wikipedia looking for information about women, trans, and/or gender non‐conforming scientists, writers, scholars, filmmakers, artists, activists, politicians, and others, only to find the same gender marginalizations that occur in traditional Encyclopedias? Have you ever wondered what a feminist app or program might do or look like? Then join Ms. Magazine, the Fembot Collective, and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism’s first ever Wikipedia Edit-‐a‐Thon + Hack‐a‐Thon!
On Friday, March 6th, Fembot will be writing historical figures marginalized because of their gender into Wikipedia. Not only will they be contributing to the world of free knowledge and ensuring the existence of a gender inclusive history of everything, they will be training people how to make effective and engaging entries that will outlive the participation of their creators – ensuring the digital legacy of women, trans, and/or gender non-‐conforming people in multiple discipline, fields, and periods of history.
At the first Fembot Hack‐a‐thon, they created the Fembot Bot: an auto-‐tweeting bot designed to auto-‐reply to sexist and racist hashtags. Sadly, Twitter shut down the Fembot Bot too quickly. Join Fembot in their memory on Saturday, March 7th, when they will collaborate with coders, software designers, and others at the Annenberg School to build some awe‐inspiring feminist tools and interventions.
Send suggestions on who you’d like to see written into Wikipedia to admin@fembotcollective.org; look for registration information and other details on the Fembot website in early winter!
Wendy Chun (Brown University) is the 2014-15 Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics. She will be in residence at UO during the Winter quarter 2015 as the anchor scholar for the center’s inquiry on Media and Democracy. She will also be teaching the Habitual New Media course alongside Colin Koopman, in which they will provide graduate students from a range of disciplines with an introduction to, and deeper engagement with, some of the major theoretical approaches to new media as an object of critical inquiry.
Control and Freedom Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
She has an interesting background in comparative literature and systems engineering (see a brief article here). Professor Chun has become a world-renowned scholar on the internet, culture and digital media. She is the author of Programmed Visions, Habitual New Media, and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Opticsamong other books and articles.
To attend the reception please RSVP to Margaret Hallock at hallock@uoregon.edu
Our new Prof Picks section features selected new media resource “picks” selected by NMCC faculty affiliates. Our first Prof Picks feature is Professor John Fenn, Assistant Professor in Arts & Administration.
Professor John Fenn, Assistant Professor, Arts & Administration“As a social bookmarking tool, it enables users to gather, annotate, and share web-based resources across multiple devices and platforms.”
“As any student who’s been in one of my classes can attest to, I use Diigo quite a bit. As a social bookmarking tool, it enables users to gather, annotate, and share web-based resources across multiple devices and platforms.
My initial attraction to Diigo stemmed from the fact that it is decoupled from a specific browser or computer/device. By using it, I no longer had to be sitting in front of a particular computer using a particular instance of a particular browser to recall a link I had saved.
Furthermore, Diigo enabled me to tag resources and annotate them—both within the Diigo site as well as directly at the URL I had saved.
Diigo’s “Group Feature”allows for the sharing and annotating of links with multiple viewers.
At first I used Diigo to prep for courses and in my own research, but then I expanded my use of it by building the platform into courses. Drawing on the “group” feature, I started generating course-based groups through which students would gather and annotate links.
Some of these groups were informal, meaning I did not require participation, but others were tied directly to assignments (depending on the course and learning objectives I had crafted). No matter how I have used it in a course, though, I try to introduce all students to the service so that they can explore it on their own and find fit with their own web-based pursuits, academic or otherwise.”
Interested in learning more about how you can use Diigo in your own research? Please contact John Fenn for more information. You can also read more about Professor Fenn’s research interests here.
Are you a UO faculty member interested in getting involved with NMCC and/or being our next Prof Picks feature? Please contact us.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Featuring Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of The American Prospect and weekly columnist forThe Washington Post. A frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, in 2009, he was named one of “the most influential commentators in the nation” by The Atlantic Monthly.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
