Yesterday students, faculty and administrators began to react to the police invasion of campus and their abuse of students, protesters and faculty. There is much to report and much to say. 1. Here’s a CBC story, with video. What they left out was that Greg Mikkelson did try to leave campus and was blocked from …
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Tuition Protest Yields Police Violence on McGill Campus
Yesterday, thousands of Quebec CEGEP and university students took to the streets to protest a proposed elevation in tuition and fees. The route brought people together near Berri-UQAM (a metro stop) and then back to the McGill campus. This is where things got ugly. Not only did someone call in riot police on the protesters, …
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In lieu of a proper update, here are some smart things said by other people about current academic politics in Quebec
Letters to the principal. Statement on academic amnesty.
Hot off the IJoC Press: The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies
International Journal of Communication (IJoC) Publishes Special Section on Academic Labor International Journal of Communication (IJoC) has published a new special section on “The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies.” Edited by Jonathan Sterne, this special section features 21 authors who raise difficult questions about academic labor in our field. We may have learned …
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Announcing a new book series on Duke University Press! Now, please help us name it.
Lisa Gitelman and I will be editing a new book series on Duke University Press. As Lisa put it, we “share a taste in books” and we thought it would be a good place to support empirically rich, theoretically engaged work on media, technologies and culture. And yes, of course it will also be a …
Thurs 20 Oct: MUNACA day of support
Thursday is MUNACA family day and a number of profs got together to talk about other stuff we should be doing (full disclosure–I wan’t at the meeting but support the decision). I would definitely join in and cancel class Thursday, if I hadn’t already cancelled class on my syllabus for a preplanned trip (I’ll be …
MUNACA Update
I haven’t been blogging the strike as well as I should have been, but luckily MUNACA has been at http://munacastrike.wordpress.com. Highlights of the last couple weeks: solidarity groups have really come together. Although MFLAG’s website shows little action (that should change soon), the group has been furiously busy. There has also be a little administration …