Why does the pandemic continue to be characterized this way? What work does it do for people to say the thing we have lived and seen counted and documented endlessly is unimaginable or unthinkable?
Fun news: this fall I'll be starting at Dartmouth as Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement and Associate Professor of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies. 1/
So my vaccinated child is COVID+ and now symptomatic, campus testing is closed down, & someone above my pay grade wants me in a classroom first thing next week without a guarantee that I'm not infectious? That's really want college parents want?
It's official! I'm now a fully appointed member of the Film and Media Studies here at Dartmouth. Over drinks amongst friends I can share the whys...but suffice it to say I am in a much healthier place and I am so relieved
If you don't have young children, please please be kind to your colleagues who do. It is mind boggling how many ppl are proceeding as if I have oodles of free time right now. I now have a *third FULL TIME job* not more free time
for colleagues who are not yet in term and/or not yet in Omicron wave. Our numbers on campus nearly doubled over the weekend within a population that is ~98% vaxed. Active+new cases among UGs now at 880 in a student population ~ 4k
JOB! Dartmouth College invites applications for an open rank tenure-track position in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement (DHSE). One or more hires will be a part of an endowed research cluster focused on feminist, anti-racist work.
We're at more than 10.5 million global confirmed cases of
#COVID19
and 2.5 million in the US and growing quickly, so why don't the numbers and behaviors align? A thread from your friendly historian of quantification
Can we please end the farce of a safe return to campus now? 21 out of a squad of what, 100? That’s 1/5th within 2 weeks and you know how the racial disparity is going to play out
If in person conferences aren’t going to be a thing can we agree to slow the total amount of programming down and not just read papers into a screen??? I absolutely cannot sustain the current screen and chair fatigue
The ad will go up after I return from vacation Aug 19th, but it's official that the Dartmouth Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster will be hiring this year - open rank, focus on justice-oriented work in/on/around digital tech and cultures. Deadline will be 10/1
As a person who has been doxxed, whose colleague had to pick up & leave town for bit, who had to walk past men calling me a whore & murderer at work, who listened to ppl tell us language doesn’t harm, I find the current discourse about safety on campus WILD
Love to all my friends in higher ed who are struggling. The fatigue right now is brutal and so many of us (self included) are trying to keep up with a system that seems to be accelerating rather than slowing the eff down.
I’m looking into this and hope to have some additional info soon. Let me be clear - I told UCSC that I would happily fulfill my residency, which was to include this talk, when the admin resumes negotiations w/striking students but not before
#cola4all
😡
@profwernimont
cancels in solidarity with striking grad students, but
@UCSC
made an announcement that it's because of COVID-19. This fits with a wider pattern of disinformation UCSC spreads when it comes to the strike.
Twitterverse: we'll be hiring in the Dartmouth Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster in the future (twice!). If you do or know of wonderful work in this space (or set of spaces) please let me know! Think "DH" VERY broadly construed, sociology, LIS, history of comp etc
Very happy to be able to share a digital version of
#NumberedLives
for all to use right now. I'm deeply grateful to
@mitpress
for their willingness to make my book and others relevant to
#COVID19
available for general use
initially I hadn't imagined a situation in which the dashboard would be obsolete because our states/nation just stopped counting, but we're clearly here. Lots of people report trying to let health depts know about +home tests but finding no path to do so. apparently a thread 1/n
Just added some really great resources - including accessible course considerations and tools to help students know how to learn online. People are doing GREAT work and SHARING!
#CovidCampus
@HASTACscholars
@HASTAC
It's REAL! So exciting to see in person. Many many thanks to
@lizlosh
and
@gamegrrrl
for their excellent editorial work and for starting such a rich series (Media Origins) with my work. . Consider sending them your proposals!
@mitpress
Fabulous special issue of American Quarterly, "Toward a Critically Engaged Digital Practice" is now out! Incl my "Knowing Why Revolution Must Come: DH as Poetry and Prayer"
this thread is an amazing meditation on how knitters are engaging with their world and on alternative modes of data visualization. I'm struck by the daily practice of some... cc
@drnikki
@laurenfklein
I decided that this year, every day, I would knit a row on a scarf to mark the corresponding daily temperature/weather of my town. It felt like a good way to engage with the changing climate and with the changing year. A way to notice and not look away. Here's January then.
Two very sincere invitations to
#mla19
and
#aha19
: Dartmouth’s Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster will be hiring next year and the following. If you work in these areas, DM me and/or say hello if you see me. I’d love to know what you’re working on. 1/n
Dear
#dh2018
- Two books coming out this fall/winter may be of interest: One is
#NumberedLives
, a long history of technologies of quantifying human life, and the other (edited with
@lizlosh
) Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and
#DH
.
In anticipation of a gov't shutdown and academic
#digitalhumanities
#dh
protip if you draw on gov't funded archives/materials in a digital project -- now is a great time to take screen shots of your site with embedded materials working 1/n
I am beyond delighted that
@alliejrmartin
will be joining
@DartmouthDHSE
as an assistant professor of ethnomusicology and digital humanities. Her work in Black
#SoundStudies
and
#BlackDH
is so very important and I can’t wait for her arrival here. 1/2
I feel like I’m in a bad hallucination with the roaring return of MOOCS and online teaching - remember how we in
@FemTechNet
created and ran successful anti-moocs and it was badass but no one would fund us????
writing a funding proposal for an event and feeling frustrated having been told "no one will fund childcare, you have to take it out" -- what can we do to effect change here?
Hey y'all did you know that Digital Studies @ U. Michigan is hiring three new faculty this year (deadlines Dec 7). Incl this one focused on Black digital studies:
Delighted to be invited to be a faculty fellow for the year at U Toronto next year - so excited that there will be several opportunities to engage local art and to think about "How Media Count"
Students have suggested that i find some uplifting materials for the Social Justice and Computing class (which my kids might describe as 'espresso depresso') - I plan to include
@JoyMLRankin
and
@jovialjoy
's work for other ways computing could be...any suggestions? TYIA
Are e-books & e-journals the green alternative to printed books? They don’t use paper for their production nor require physical storage. And there are an incredible 5 million e-books and e-journal articles available to readers through
#UKLegalDeposit
.
#librariesweek
I'm a graduate student (so this is a lateral punch), and I gotta say something: there's a general culture of unconstructively tearing books and peers down that's aggressive and unproductive. And I think pretty much everyone knows this?
There's more to say and I'll be working on it, but you can also read more about the history of quantification of death and life in Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (online) (in print) /fin
This little (chip)munchkin was in the jaws of our cat and as I was intervening it climbed up me and fell asleep in my hair and now I don’t know what to do
we are having a wild fac meeting discussing the need/not need to know how to swim. It includes an argument that swim requirements have been dumbed down
I'm struggling to understand how to make things/methods/communities w/o enabling their weaponization (eg: use of mvmt + sentiment analysis started in arts + humanities and is now surveillance tech) anyone have any good reading on how to address/think about?
see and chatting w/ppl at
#ach2019
has reminded me that sometimes the most important "impact" of an event are the relationships that persist even if no paper was written, no new object was made
Yesterday
@drnikki
and I found a little baby chipmunk as we were walking to get coffee. To improve the wholesome content volume here, I’ll post about the journey
#ChipmunkOrphan
I'm hiring! Come help support and advance the work of both
@HASTAC
and the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster here
@dartmouth
- this is a FT benefits eligible position
Today we asked our president “are you prepared to be responsible for the death of a student?” - it’s not an idle question and we had swat w long guns on campus last night
really really appreciate the audience member right now who is observing that slavery is a classifying technology, that settler-colonialism means that we have been operating under these logics for a long time.
#digidemsfu
"It is historically inaccurate to understand the history of European accounting and colonial commerce as separate from that of slavery and human oppression"
#NumberedLives
happily we are now a covid-free household. Took 9 days for the elder child and 8 for the younger one. Both were symptomatic and uncomfortable for a day or two. One more day before the littlest one goes back to school. A relief to see space to think again on the horizon
Fabulous special issue of American Quarterly, "Toward a Critically Engaged Digital Practice" is now out! Incl my "Knowing Why Revolution Must Come: DH as Poetry and Prayer"
Do you think about the future of higher ed? of technology & society? have insight into how Media Studies, STS, DH, Internet Studies can transform elite/exclusionary narratives about the past, present, and future? Consider presenting at HASTAC2020
#NumberedLives
is slowing making its way into the world. If you're planning to teach with it, let me know. I'm happy to skype with your courses/students!
I get asked a lot about why people aren't responding to the growing COVID counts, so a thread hypothesizing why it's hard for some to "see" that COVID is real despite nearly 400k dead (using LA County as an example) 1/12
Delighted to be giving an opening plenary for
#DHSI19
, particularly so given the topic is quantified sex and biopolitics. Wishing my body and I weren’t fighting about too much travel so that I could hug all the fabulous friends
The aesthetics of mourning the dead are complicated but it’s been a part of newspapers and the news from the beginning. Thank you
@nytimes
for names, even of just a fraction
An ongoing, collective effort to connect and share re: women, enby, gender queer, and other gender minorities in
#DH
; started in 2015 and updated today
#femDH
#transformDH
#myDHis
Just finished reviewing an article and was offered "20% off of the author's processing charge" of $1,500 to publish in said journal. All I can say is that academic publishing is broken, and if this is where
#OA
#openaccess
gets us...then we're screwed.
fourth day of higher, systemic body pain. Sending love out into the world...but especially to ppl who have chronic, stress-exacerbated conditions. Going to shut down the Jacque-shop for the day.
For those who are thinking about the history of quantification (of life or death) or teaching with
#numberedLives
, I've got a very basic media companion up. Not much contextual info, but lots of objects/texts to view
Oh neat, that wall I hit is such a strong one that opening my computer to work makes me want to cry. I think it's time for a break. Take care of yourselves, friends.
I really appreciate that
@toniasutherland
shows images of viewers at lynchings rather than the people being murdered. We should consider the spectacle of white pleasure at violence
#HASTAC2019
JOB! Race and Racism in Quantitative Social Sciences program (data science and more) at Dartmouth is hiring. I'm an affiliate of this great program and happy to answer questions. Please share widely
It was no small thing to go through the processes that got me here and in a pandemic no less - including approval by our tenuring body. I'm looking forward to doing some badass feminist media studies scholarship and making again!
A new phase of covid parenting: trying to help children not freak out about the real possibility they or their friends will get covid after they’ve spent 18 months working hard to avoid getting covid
doing new employee orientation at D and having a really hard time not interrupting to point out the problems with activity tracking/quantification as an "awesome benefit"
I'm really delighted to be teaching a new Social Justice and Computing course within WGSS at Dartmouth this winter. I'm also more than a little whelmed at the thought right now...
It’s been an amazing run and I’m so proud of the work we did to bring even more design and arts scholarship and making into
@HASTAC
. Time to focus on more local efforts but I know the HASTAC community has amazing things ahead
We are grateful to
@profwernimont
(
@HASTAC
CoDirector, 2016-2024) for nearly a decade of tireless, shining, creative, powerful, and generous leadership. We cannot thank her and
@dartmouth
enough and wish her all the best on all that comes next!
Our six year old declared she/they (depends on the day) would like to have my skeleton when I'm dead so they can dress me up as a monster skeleton cat every Halloween and I. Am. So. Here. For. It. -- partner is a bit skeptical, tho.