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Ilana Gershon deposited Knowing adoption and adopting knowledge in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoIn the 1960s, the descent versus alliance debate dominated kinship studies-anthropologists wanted to determine
what relationship offered the best analytic lens for understanding how social groups were formed.
Those who favored descent felt that the most relevant question to ask was how groups constituted and reconstituted
themselves across…[Read more] -
Ilana Gershon deposited Knowing adoption and adopting knowledge in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoIn the 1960s, the descent versus alliance debate dominated kinship studies-anthropologists wanted to determine
what relationship offered the best analytic lens for understanding how social groups were formed.
Those who favored descent felt that the most relevant question to ask was how groups constituted and reconstituted
themselves across…[Read more] -
Ilana Gershon deposited Knowing adoption and adopting knowledge in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoIn the 1960s, the descent versus alliance debate dominated kinship studies-anthropologists wanted to determine
what relationship offered the best analytic lens for understanding how social groups were formed.
Those who favored descent felt that the most relevant question to ask was how groups constituted and reconstituted
themselves across…[Read more] -
Ilana Gershon deposited Selling Your Self in the United States in the group
Labor Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoIn the contemporary U.S. workplace, corporate personhood is increasingly becoming
the metaphor structuring how job seekers are supposed to present themselves as
employable. If one takes oneself to be a business, one should also take oneself to
be an entity that requires a brand. Some ethnographic questions arise when job
seekers try to embody…[Read more] -
Ilana Gershon deposited Selling Your Self in the United States in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoIn the contemporary U.S. workplace, corporate personhood is increasingly becoming
the metaphor structuring how job seekers are supposed to present themselves as
employable. If one takes oneself to be a business, one should also take oneself to
be an entity that requires a brand. Some ethnographic questions arise when job
seekers try to embody…[Read more] -
Ilana Gershon deposited Media Ideologies: An Introduction in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis volume began with the question: what analytical possibilities can scholarly
work on language ideologies offer the study of media? Studying media ideologies
is not new, but calling the metalanguage that emphasizes the technology or bodies
through which we communicate a “media ideology” is. By examining media ideologies,
the authors in thi…[Read more] -
Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Survey of DH work in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Center for Open Science (COS) are conducting a survey in order to understand how libraries can make digital humanities (DH) projects more visible, citable, and discoverable on the web.
More information about the survey is available at…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Assoc/Full Professor, Literary Studies, Digital Humanities, Critical Diversity in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe Department of English at Michigan State University invites applications for a scholar, at the level of Associate or Full Professor, whose work connects literary studies and the digital humanities to critical diversity. This position is part of the College of Arts and Letters’ Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative, which will f…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Assoc/Full Professor, Literary Studies, Digital Humanities, Critical Diversity in the discussion
Postcolonial Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe Department of English at Michigan State University invites applications for a scholar, at the level of Associate or Full Professor, whose work connects literary studies and the digital humanities to critical diversity. This position is part of the College of Arts and Letters’ Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative, which will f…[Read more]
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Ilana Gershon deposited Knowing adoption and adopting knowledge on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
In the 1960s, the descent versus alliance debate dominated kinship studies-anthropologists wanted to determine
what relationship offered the best analytic lens for understanding how social groups were formed.
Those who favored descent felt that the most relevant question to ask was how groups constituted and reconstituted
themselves across…[Read more] -
Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted an update on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
Having an energizing first morning at #DLFforum. Right now in #m1a, hearing about issues of labor, collaboration, credit in digital libraries and digital humanities projects.
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Ilana Gershon deposited Selling Your Self in the United States on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
In the contemporary U.S. workplace, corporate personhood is increasingly becoming
the metaphor structuring how job seekers are supposed to present themselves as
employable. If one takes oneself to be a business, one should also take oneself to
be an entity that requires a brand. Some ethnographic questions arise when job
seekers try to embody…[Read more] -
Ilana Gershon deposited Media Ideologies: An Introduction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
This volume began with the question: what analytical possibilities can scholarly
work on language ideologies offer the study of media? Studying media ideologies
is not new, but calling the metalanguage that emphasizes the technology or bodies
through which we communicate a “media ideology” is. By examining media ideologies,
the authors in thi…[Read more] -
Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted an update on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
Thinking about how institutions and organizations might work toward collective solutions to shared problems: The Commons and the Common Good. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/the-commons-and-the-common-good/
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Thanks for this, @kfitz! It’s definitely the number one takeaway from this week’s Humanities Commons planning meeting.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted an update on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
A fantastic, energizing, exhausting day brainstorming with a bunch of org leaders about future possibilities for Humanities Commons. Stay tuned!
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Scholarly Communications Shouldn’t Just Be Open, but Non-Profit Too in the group
Linked Open Data on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoMuch of the rhetoric around the future of scholarly communication hinges on the “open” label. In light of Elsevier’s recent acquisition of bepress and the announcement that, owing to high fees, an established mathematics journal’s editorial team will split from its publisher to start an open access alternative, Jefferson Pooley argues that the sch…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Scholarly Communications Shouldn’t Just Be Open, but Non-Profit Too in the group
Digital Books on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoMuch of the rhetoric around the future of scholarly communication hinges on the “open” label. In light of Elsevier’s recent acquisition of bepress and the announcement that, owing to high fees, an established mathematics journal’s editorial team will split from its publisher to start an open access alternative, Jefferson Pooley argues that the sch…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Scholarly Communications Shouldn’t Just Be Open, but Non-Profit Too on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Much of the rhetoric around the future of scholarly communication hinges on the “open” label. In light of Elsevier’s recent acquisition of bepress and the announcement that, owing to high fees, an established mathematics journal’s editorial team will split from its publisher to start an open access alternative, Jefferson Pooley argues that the sch…[Read more]
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