In the comments to the beard/mask post, Mark Walters (hi Mark, yes I remember you!) asks for an update on the mp3 book, with the “of course your health comes first” proviso. I am happy to think of myself as an author rather than a cancer patient, so here’s an update. The book was fully …
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New Text
Yet another short one. I feel like I keep doing these forum things when I should be doing full articles. Oh well, such is the life of a chair. I also have this book manuscript on its way, so I shouldn’t complain. Anyway, it’s timely and apropos, what with that Thomas H. Benton guy publishing …
Academic Easter Eggs
In my spare time I’ve been starting to read again, including Zenko and Bogost’s Racing the Beam. Their discussion of the Atari game “Adventure” raised a question for which I do not have the answer. Are there examples of “easter eggs” in academic writing? What would they be? I have a vague recollection of a …
Homecoming (never mind the typo)
Reconsidering the Barometer of “Placement”
A great post about what is occluded in the term “placement” over at the Edge of the American West seems really timely, given the bad job market this past year. Mostly I just agree with it even though it’s more about history than Comm Studies. I would add that the placement statistic also reifies the …
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Apparently, blogging is at its best when it’s re-reactive
One more, last Mark Taylor response. Now I’ll cut it out.
Taylor gets more criticism
Here and here.