Pre-Sabbatical Summer Vibes
After an extremely cold and super snowy Wisconsin winter, I was starting to think I’d never see summer. However, we did escape to Hawaii at the end of May and it was glorious! But, no lie, when we...
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When I was notified that both my roundtable and paper had been accepted to the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Brisbane, I knew I would try to stay in Australia for as long as...
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As my previous post noted, I spent the first week of October in Brisbane attending the Association of Internet Researchers conference, which was my first AoIR since 2013! As someone who has recently...
View ArticleOh my NOLA…
Later this year I have a short piece coming out in a collection curated by Annette Markham and Katrin Tiidenberg entitled Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity. [Just last week I...
View ArticleSabbatical in the time of COVID-19 (part 1)
Given the “stay at home” state of the world right now, I know all of us are online much more than usual. ETA this snazzy Guide to the Internet courtesy of the LA Times. As an internet researcher, I...
View ArticleSabbatical in the time of COVID-19 (part 2)
As I begin to sift through the research on Tumblr that I have gathered, I realize that many in my circle of both academic and non-academic friends might have a reaction similar to the one that opens...
View ArticleAcademic Burnout
As you can see from the archive here, I haven’t blogged in 16 months. What crazy, though, is that I did accomplish a great number of things above and beyond my 4-3 teaching load, including 4...
View ArticleAcademic Accomplishments
As my previous post mentioned, in January of this year I needed to submit materials for my post-tenure review. The departmental committee asked for the following evidence: Student course evaluations...
View ArticlePetty Things and Nemeses
For once, I give you a short academic title. And with the plural of nemesis! Every author at Routledge gets 50 free online copies of their article to share with friends and colleagues as soon as their...
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