(apologies for cross-posting; please distribute widely) International Journal of Communication Feature Special Section on Academic Labor and Administration in Communication Studies Edited by Jonathan Sterne Academic labor today is characterized by a series of disconcerting trends: an increasingly casualized professoriate; universities that increasingly depend on chronically undercompensated part-time and graduate student labor to support their …
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I wonder what it would feel like to write a book every year or two
Because the way I do it sure takes forever. The good news is that I’ve more or less finished my revisions. It felt nice to upload the revised conclusion today. My RA has the manuscript, then I’ll go over her changes and send the thing back to Duke in a couple weeks. At that point, …
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No Brown M&Ms
I haven’t blogged much about CASBS, which I will do. But part of the deal (for now) is that each fellow delivers a lecture. We meet once a week. Yesterday was my day. I’ve given a few talks this year and each one has been an experiment to see what my voice will handle and …
Update
It’s quiet here but noisy in my head. I’ve eviscerated one chapter of my manuscript, which then collapsed under its own weight. And I’m trying to make the intro the best it can be. Intense. I have temporarily suspended my sabbatical “work no more than 40 hours in a week” rule to write a bit …
Blood on the floor
Several years ago I visited a large public university to give a talk. At the time my host (who will remain anonymous but some of my readers may guess who it is — I’m not telling) was serving as graduate program director and going through admissions decisions — which are always difficult. I ask him …
Embarrassing Man Stuff
I’ve now been shaving for 10 months, which means I have the skills of a 14-year-old or thereabouts. I’m still learning this whole thing. So I’m at the gym last week and shave after my shower. It was my first shave at the gym. I had my rig all set up, and a minute or …
Media Piracy Report and SSRC Theater
The SSRC just released a report on media piracy in emerging economies. I haven’t read it yet, so I can’t comment on the findings, but if you click the link, you’ll find an interesting discussion of the pricing structure as itself a demonstration of the arguments in the book. As an added part of that …