Posts Tagged ‘ academia ’

When Finding Feminism Means Creating Your Own Space

February 25, 2012
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When Finding Feminism Means Creating Your Own Space

Finding the feminism in media studies can sometimes mean finding feminism in ourselves and enacting our own agency to make change, no matter how small it may seem.
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How to be an Independent Scholar

November 8, 2011
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How to be an Independent Scholar

Being an independent scholar means that research and academic writing must be redefined as pleasure: I research instead of watching TV or reading a book; I write instead of meeting with friends or going shopping; I edit and do professional activities at the cost of my family time.
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Moving

November 1, 2011
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Moving

Academic life requires that one be able to move on command. But how does one do that?
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Dual Academic Couples and Long Distance Living

October 25, 2011
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Dual Academic Couples and Long Distance Living

Commuting is no way to work. It’s also no way to live. And yet I’m surprised by how many of us there are. Probably every professor knows at least one couple in a similar situation.
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Report From the Association of Internet Researchers Conference

October 21, 2011
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Report From the Association of Internet Researchers Conference

Ben Aslinger, Sean Duncan, and Liz Ellcessor provide some thoughts on IR12, the 12th annual Association of Internet Researchers conference, which was held in Seattle, October 10-13.
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Single Motherhood and the Faculty Life

October 11, 2011
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Single Motherhood and the Faculty Life

Motherhood and academia are in many ways an uneasy mix. And even more so when it comes to single motherhood.
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Thoughts on the Intersection of Communication Research and Policy

September 13, 2011
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Thoughts on the Intersection of Communication Research and Policy

It’s in the long-term best interests of the field on a variety of fronts that we work to play a more prominent role in the policy arena. But how do we do so?
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Flexibility for Faculty Fathers

September 6, 2011
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Flexibility for Faculty Fathers

My wife and I had the first of our three children during my first year as a faculty member, so I've never really known what it is to be a professor or a father without simultaneously wearing the other hat.
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Advice, Feedback, and Where to Get It

August 30, 2011
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Advice, Feedback, and Where to Get It

With all the bad advice being given about academia, or simply the lack of advice, where do we get good advice and how do we establish a better system for giving it?
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Balancing between “Academy” and “Industry”

August 23, 2011
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Balancing between “Academy” and “Industry”

A discussion of academic media studies work outside the university.
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On academic collaboration

August 15, 2011
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On academic collaboration

Collaborations are frowned upon in the humanities: monographs are still the prime currency in tenure and promotion, and our training doesn’t prepare or encourage us for the give and take that collaborative writing demands. For me that’s a shame, because I love writing with others.
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The Overseas Job Market and the Media Studies Academy

August 9, 2011
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The Overseas Job Market and the Media Studies Academy

A discussion of the academic job market and hiring processes in the UK and Ireland.
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So You Want to Be a Grad Student Mama

August 2, 2011
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So You Want to Be a Grad Student Mama

Performing motherhood while completing grad school is a complicated role to negotiate, and there are costs and benefits to consider. I write this post to discuss my own specific experiences as a media studies grad student mama, and propose considerations for a dialogue on the place of children and parenting within academe.
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Academic Productivity, Part 1

Academic Productivity, Part 1

Amanda Lotz and Jonathan Gray offer some tips on productivity, as part of Antenna's new column on School/Work.
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