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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 3UU3 Buddhism in East Asia McMaster University Winter 2019 on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
Syllabus for my course 3UU3, Buddhism in East Asia planned for Winter term 2019
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 712 Topics in the Study of Chinese Buddhist Texts I: Translated Texts Nirvana Sutra McMaster University, Term II 2019 on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
Draft version of syllabus for graduate seminar on Nirvana Sutra
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 2MT3 Asian Meditation Traditions December 2019 on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
This is the version of the syllabus for Asian Meditation Traditions at the end of the first term in which I offered it–Fall 2018.
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 2MT3 Asian Meditation Traditions in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis course is an introduction to the theory and practice of meditation systems in Asia taught at McMaster University in Fall 2018
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 2MT3 Asian Meditation Traditions in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis course is an introduction to the theory and practice of meditation systems in Asia taught at McMaster University in Fall 2018
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 2MT3 Asian Meditation Traditions on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of meditation systems in Asia taught at McMaster University in Fall 2018
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Jefferson Pooley deposited The Trials of Media Research in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoMedia research is a vexing enterprise. Trapped in the borderlands between social science and the humanities, the study of media and communication bears the liabilities of both. We have to contend with all the challenges that sociologists and literary scholars face: the subjective baggage of the analyst, her struggle to interpret unstable meanings,…[Read more]
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Media research is a vexing enterprise. Trapped in the borderlands between social science and the humanities, the study of media and communication bears the liabilities of both. We have to contend with all the challenges that sociologists and literary scholars face: the subjective baggage of the analyst, her struggle to interpret unstable meanings,…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Wilbur Schramm and the ‘Four Founders’ History of U.S. Communication Research in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn its postwar institutional infancy, American mass communication research badly needed a history. Communication study in the United States, jerry-rigged from journalism schools and speech departments in the years following World War II, has from the beginning suffered from a legitimacy deficit. This paper traces Wilbur Schramm’s self-conscious a…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Wilbur Schramm and the ‘Four Founders’ History of U.S. Communication Research on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
In its postwar institutional infancy, American mass communication research badly needed a history. Communication study in the United States, jerry-rigged from journalism schools and speech departments in the years following World War II, has from the beginning suffered from a legitimacy deficit. This paper traces Wilbur Schramm’s self-conscious a…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Metrics Mania: The Case Against Academia.edu in the group
Digital Books on Humanities Commons 8 years agoAcademia.edu has been called “Facebook for academics,” and the analogy is fitting: Academia.edu mimics core social-media conventions, down to follower counts, curated profiles with pics, and a scrollable “News Feed” bulletin of followers’ uploads. But its reliance on user-facing metrics exceeds anything you’ll find on mainstream social media. It…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Metrics Mania: The Case Against Academia.edu in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoAcademia.edu has been called “Facebook for academics,” and the analogy is fitting: Academia.edu mimics core social-media conventions, down to follower counts, curated profiles with pics, and a scrollable “News Feed” bulletin of followers’ uploads. But its reliance on user-facing metrics exceeds anything you’ll find on mainstream social media. It…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Metrics Mania: The Case Against Academia.edu on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
Academia.edu has been called “Facebook for academics,” and the analogy is fitting: Academia.edu mimics core social-media conventions, down to follower counts, curated profiles with pics, and a scrollable “News Feed” bulletin of followers’ uploads. But its reliance on user-facing metrics exceeds anything you’ll find on mainstream social media. It…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Wilbur Schramm: ‘Evangelist of Communication Research’ on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
The following interview is dedicated to the 110th anniversary of Wilbur Schramm, one of the “Founding fathers” of communication research in the United States. Jefferson Pooley, the historian of communication as a field of research, shares his opinion on the role of Schramm in the process of institualisation of communication studies in the United States.
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James A Benn deposited Seminar on Chinese Religions in Literature and Performance in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSyllabus for a graduate seminar on Chinese Religions at McMaster University Term II 2017-2018
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James A Benn deposited Seminar on Chinese Religions in Literature and Performance on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
Syllabus for a graduate seminar on Chinese Religions at McMaster University Term II 2017-2018
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Daniel Leisawitz's profile was updated on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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James A Benn deposited recent Scholarship in Buddhist Studies Graduate seminar in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoGraduate seminar in Buddhist Studies at McMaster University
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James A Benn deposited recent Scholarship in Buddhist Studies Graduate seminar on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
Graduate seminar in Buddhist Studies at McMaster University
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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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