Pamela Oliver

I think this is a gift link to a great article quoting top social movement scholars about the impact and meaning of large scale peaceful protests like "No Kings." The point is to demonstrate numbers and geographic scope of people who oppose Trump/Republican policies & build involvement.

This is the second of two blog posts about the 30th anniversary of the Million Man March, stressing the role and background of Ben Chavis in the march. www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoli...

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Million Man March. A couple of years ago I wrote two blog posts about the organizing for the March. (This draws on our larger project.) This is the first that argues the march was about coalitional unity. www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoli...

OMG. Ugh.

I so much hate those video trainings. Give me a print training every time. I don't think our system lets you speed them up.

btw if you have time/interest, I'd be interested in continuing this conversation. I do think how MSM talks about protests matters a lot. Framing as meaningless vs framing as signaling dissent matters.

MSM still matters especially for communicating to elites. Construction of meaning.

MSM focus on violence or extremism distorts popular impression of public opinion.

It is all in what meaning the reports attach to events. Construction of news.

Of course reporting numbers is useful. Communicates across places that there is dissent. Signals to legislators that people care and to dissenters that they are not alone. Reports from small towns in red places especially meaningful.

Yes and no. Agree that the form is a "demonstration," wherein the meaning is in the numbers. But newsworthiness is a judgment. Mainstream media emphasis on violence also distorts Black protests as compared with Black news sources osf.io/preprints/so...

Maybe even high level univ admins are understanding what they need to do?

I remember numbers from the 1960s but not recent. However, I also know that when the printing press was invented there were complaints that it would ruin memory, which it did.

And for another story about typesetting (not editing), I have twice (!) had my text ruined post-proofreading by transposition of a whole line or page that rendered the resulting text unintelligible even as the transposition was impossible for a reader to detect. Needed an erratum both times.

Hahahaha. You already know the answer, you said it in your thread. You are just legitimately frustrated. But for example I'm going to try to insert one word based on someone I'm quoting pointing out that the transcript I quoted didn't match the audio of what they said.

New in the past couple weeks my gmail has been losing messages, especially replies to my outgoing messages when the message was sent to multiple people. E.g. in one case, someone else could see the reply my initial message but it was just not in my inbox. Ideas about where to look for solutions?

As lack of answers indicates, mostly you cannot do this. Schools want their own faculty to certify training. There are sometimes informal arrangements when a faculty member provides official mentoring with informal mentoring from someone else who is well qualified whom they know and trust.

seconding for sociology.

I would speculate also down river.

Congratulations! Well deserved.

Are they experts about Black newspapers who feel unappreciated? Or people who are taking mainstream news as a given objective source that needs no analysis? Or something else I'm not thinking of? 2/2

#AcademicSky #commsky #BlackSky Sincere Q'n. Where are reviewers coming from if they question the representativeness of a sample of 37 Black newspapers but not a sample of 3 mainstream newswires in the same paper? & complain about failure to analyze diversity of the former but not the latter? 1/2

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

I am more sympathetic to email for PDF as in some cases publisher will not allow public posting of PDF but privately mailing a copy isn't a violation. (I have a forthcoming piece that I can't post but wish I could because I want people to read it.)

FWIW I'm nowhere near as famous as TMC and also White, but back when I was often in regional news for work I was doing, I would get phone calls from people telling me I "had" to do some labor-intensive work for them in the same vein and they'd get angry when I said no. People can be jerks IRL.

And what field. Often answer is as simple no. Work around depend on relationships.

Answer depends on where you and students are.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

How is this legal? Invading people's homes while they're sleeping & forcing them outdoors, naked? Kids, too? abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

#IceGestapo #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown

I do remember that thread . . .

I agree so much. At the end of the day, a vote is a discrete choice that involves making a summary judgment, and I was thinking to myself that assessment of a person's character and trustworthiness is based on all that they do, but all of us are a mixture of good and bad actions.