A conversation with a leading scholar and activist
Thursday, May 21, 11 am - 12 pm (PDT)
How does the pandemic impact a society structured by racial inequalities? What does this mean for higher education, and how can we respond?
We will investigate these questions with Jessie Daniels, an activist and scholar of racism and the digital world. Daniels is faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center and professor at Hunter College (Sociology) and The Graduate Center, CUNY (Sociology, Critical Social Psychology, Africana Studies).
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Hello. Bit of a mixed bag this time, so let’s start with possibly the most useful news of the past two weeks: New test could guarantee the perfect avocado. No...
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the Wholesome Meat Act (I kid you not) of 1967 creates three parallel meat streams depending on the inspection in place at the slaughterhouse. Giant meat packers, who have full USDA inspection, can sell their products (and any ancillary pathogens) anywhere in the country. Smaller state-inspected facilities can sell only within their home state. And the smallest slaughterhouses can sell only to people who bought a share in the animal while it was still alive. Meat inspection is a cracking example of the capture of regulatory authority by the largest players, and it is by no means unique to the US. And according the The Counter, the bigger processing plants are getting more favourable treatment even during the Covid-19 emergency. ❧
Annotated on May 19, 2020 at 09:49AM
We're going to explore how racism and white supremacy shape social and academic responses to COVID-19. On Thursday, May 21st, from 2-3 pm EST, we'll be joined by Jessie Daniels, an activist and scholar of racism and the digital world. Daniels is faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center and professor at Hunter College (Sociology) and The Graduate Center, CUNY (Sociology, Critical Social Psychology, Africana Studies).
Daniels is an internationally recognized expert in Internet expressions of racism, and the author or editor of five books, two of which are about racism on either side of the digital revolution: White Lies (Routledge, 1997) and Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). She is currently at work on Tweet Storm:The Rise of the Far Right, the Mainstreaming of White Supremacy, and How Tech and Media Helped. In 2016, she co-edited (with Karen Gregory and Tressie McMillan Cottom) Digital Sociologies, which has been adopted by courses at several universities around the world.
Daniels’ attention is increasingly focused on how digital media technologies are changing higher education. She has co-authored two books on this topic, Being a Scholar in the Digital Era and Going Public , along with a number of articles. In 2020, Daniels launched Public Scholar Academy to help faculty who aspire to be public scholars achieve their goals and to help university administrators who want to assess and respond to attacks from the far right against their institutions.
I plan on asking Dr. Daniels about how racism shapes the unfolding pandemic. How does that impact colleges and universities? What can we do to create a more just academy?
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined — every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.
The new book is out today. Put a hold on it at the local library.
GiPHY was bought by Facebook. I was surprised since I participated in their early investing experiment, through Alphawor never got any emails about this. In July of 2014, I invested the minimum, $2,500 in GiPHY. I want to show you in…
Directed by William Asher. With Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley. When Ricky and the Mertzes wager that Lucy can't go a full day without telling a lie, her husband and friends feel more than a bit stung by her unabashed honesty.
Directed by William Asher. With Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley. Lucy and Ethel demand to be treated as if they were men, so Ricky and Fred do just that.
Directed by Paul McGuigan. Mycroft needs Sherlock's help, but a remorseless criminal mastermind puts Sherlock on a distracting crime-solving spree via a series of hostage human bombs through which he speaks.
Directed by Aaron Sorkin. With Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera. The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
Rating: ★★★★½
This tool copies annotations from one group to another, and optionally also from one domain to another. Only top-level annotations will be copied, replies are ignored. Only maxAnnotations will be copied, the default is 2 as a safety check. The Hypothesis username you provide will be the creator of copied annotations. If the source or destination group is not Public, the Hypothesis user must be a member to read from the source or write to the destination. Tick lmsMode if you're a teacher copying your own prompts from one course group to another. More Hypothesis tools.
it supports students and teachers and schools in managing their own infrastructure, their own labor, their own data.
—Audrey Watters
Ok, so is hypothes.is doing this? How can it?
- my annotations must be better accessible/organizable --the current "My Annotations" is not enough
- annotation must be exportable
—jeremydean on Dec 30, 2015
And ultimately, you need to be able to completely run your own annotation infrastructure, but create and access it through a universal client.
—dwhly on
Sure. Less clear to me how that looks/works and what that I do today online is similar in "ownership." But does your "you" refer to students or teachers or schools or all of the above?
The first two (I list) seem key in terms of practical adherence to these principles for everyday users.
—jeremydean on
It's similar in character to the Domain of One's Own initiative. From a long term perspective, you might be better off taking ownership of your own infrastructure, that you can carry with you and guarantee will be available over long time periods (decades to centuries). Hypothes.is should at the very least permit you to do so if you prefer-- regardless of whether we continue to provide an annotation service at scale (which I very much think we should).
Your question around "you" is an important one. I might for instance, set up my own annotation server for my personal notes-- with the confidence that I'll always be able to find a reliable hosting provider for those. Similar to how I have my own web domain, and I host it at one place now, but I can always move it if that location goes out of business-- and my website will be identical to its current form in the new place. In the same way, my current personal email is through an address at my own domain. I don't need to depend on gmail being around forever.
As a teacher, I might use a more common service provider (like Hypothes.is) for class lessons-- one that my students are already likely to have accounts on. As web travelers, we're really accustomed to browsing seamlessly between servers-- it's understood to be the essential architecture of the web. Bringing it to the world of annotations has extraordinary benefits (IMHO) and will serve to foster more adoption and more diversity of applications.
—dwhly on
I’ve been thinking over some of this question for the better part of a decade and even more pointedly since November.
Some of what I’ve been looking at relates back to the renaissance ideas of the commonplace book as well as memory techniques dating back to ancient Greece and even further back. There are ideas like wikis (personal as well as public–Audrey references a great post by Mike Caulfield in her article) and online notebooks tools like Evernote, OneNote, TiddlyWiki, Roam Research, etc. If a student could quickly add all their highlights/annotations into their website, online notebook, Zettelkasten, or other related learning tools, then they could use them for reading, reviewing, or even spaced repetition as provided by platforms like Anki, Mnemosyne, or NeuraCache.
Going back to Jeremy’s original question though:
Ok, so is hypothes.is doing this? How can it?
Hypothesis could immediate do this and quite effectively if it supported the W3C recommended Micropub spec. In short, it’s a standard and open source method for publishing data to a broad spectrum of surfaces so that developers don’t need to build custom solutions for each of thousands of snowflake platforms.
That is, in addition to its current functionality, you could add some code to make Hypothesis a Micropub client!
The quickest and most flexible approach I might suggest would be to allow users to publish their annotations/highlights not only to their accounts, but have UI to trigger a micropub request to their website, online notebook, or other platform.
There’s nothing more I’d want than an easy way to own all the data I’m collecting with Hypothesis and Micropub could quickly add it for a wide variety of set ups and systems. There are already implementations of Micropub servers for a variety of CMS software including WordPress, Drupal, Known, Craft, Jekyll, Kirby, Hugo, Blot, and Micro.blog with others being added, including Grav. Some of us are actively working on adding it to Wiki-related software as well. Since large portions of the Domain of One’s Own movement are built on these handful, you’d have some pretty quick coverage of not only all this space but even more.
I suspect your dev team could build an implementation in just a few days and it would open up a huge advantage for allowing users to more easily own their H related data on their own websites or in other online locations (while still utilizing the Hypothesis platform for more complex functionality).
There’s some solid documentation and a wealth of open source clients you could look at or borrow code from as well as a test suite. I suspect the IndieWeb Dev chat channel would surface a few additional developers to answer questions about any other issues as they crop up.
If you’d like a quick 5-10 minute demo of how this works for a handful of other clients in conjunction with something like WordPress, I’m happy to volunteer the time and spitball some potential ways Hypothesis could dovetail it and leverage its power.
Audrey Watters (Hack Education)This is the ninth article in my series Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015
And this resistance is happening… ❧
This link (on resistance) rotted, but can be found at https://web.archive.org/web/20160305223237/http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2015/09/09/adios-ed-tech-hola-something-else/
Annotated on May 16, 2020 at 11:49AM
Here’s what I wrote last year when I chose “the Indie Web” as one of the “Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014”: ❧
I want to go back and read this too.
Annotated on May 16, 2020 at 12:06PM
The Indie Web posits itself as an alternative to the corporate Web, but it is a powerful alternative to much of ed-tech as well, which as this series has once again highlighted, is quite committed to controlling and monetizing students’ and teachers’ connections, content, and data. ❧
Annotated on May 16, 2020 at 12:08PM
I mean, what does an alternative to ed-tech as data-extraction, control, surveillance, privatization, and profiteering look like? What does resistance to the buzzwords and the bullshit look like? I don’t have an answer. (There isn’t an answer.) But I think we can see a glimmer of possibility in the Indie Web Movement. It’s enough of a glimmer that I’m calling it a trend. ❧
For Audrey Watters (the self-described Cassandra of EdTech) to indicate even a glimmer of hope is rare! This ranks as a glowing recommendation as a result.
Annotated on May 16, 2020 at 12:08PM
Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer. Nearly a year has passed and Bosch is still investigating the Daisy Clayton murder case. Meanwhile Edgar runs a sting on his dirty cops and Irvin Irving jumpstarts his mayoral campaign.
I write code and words about code.
Directed by Nanette Burstein. With Hillary Clinton, Peter Baker, Bill Clinton, Cheryl Mills. A look at the life and work of Hillary Rodham Clinton, interweaving biographical chapters of her life with behind-the-scenes footage from her 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
Episode 3: The Hardest Decision
After major setbacks in Washington, Hillary forges a new identity as a global feminist icon. But she also must grapple with the most painful moment in her marriage, which still looms large twenty years later in her campaign against Donald Trump.Episode 4: "Be Our Champion, Go Away"
After two terms as First Lady, Hillary steps out on her own as candidate for office. "Be Our Champion, Go Away" follows the leaps forward and setbacks on her path from Senator to presidential nominee, and ultimately to the final days of the 2016 election.