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Colleges Suffering College Debt, Too 27 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
A sign protesting the imposition of tuition fees at NYC’s historic Cooper Union, a 150-year-old free school. Photo by Michael Fleshman via flickr.com. UC Berkeley grad students and Scholars Strategy ...
The Unpossible 27 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
The song “The Unpossible” by Kaleidoscope Jukebox begins with a discussion of the limitations of the word “impossible”: Our language…you might say our language lacks a word. We have the word impossi...
Sarah Banet-Weiser, “Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture” 27 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
[Cross-posted from New Books in Communication] In Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture, Sarah Banet-Weiser scrutinizes the spread of brand culture into other spheres of social li...
Trolling Is the New Love & Theft 27 Aug 2013 | 02:55 am
Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” and Miley Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop” have been two of the most controversial songs/videos in the last few years, so it’s not surprising that they performed together at this...
The Relationship Between Lead and Crime 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
In the late 1990s, I turned down my publisher’s offer to do a third edition of my criminology textbook. It wasn’t just that editions one and two had failed to make me a man of wealth and fame. But i...
Little Pink Subprimes 26 Aug 2013 | 09:42 pm
Photo by Kristine Lewis via flickr.com. For many, the “American Dream” means owning a comfortable home in a nice neighborhood, and that idea brings a certain Mellencamp tune to mind. The song nods t...
The Problem With The “I Forgot My Phone” Video 26 Aug 2013 | 06:11 pm
…or just get new friends? The easiest, laziest, most click-baitiest op-ed, trend video, or thing to scream at a bar right now is how, with today’s technologies, we are more connected but also more al...
Men are People and Women are Women: The Home Depot Edition 25 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
Thanks to @colleeneliza for tweeting us this great example of the centering of masculinity as “normal” and the othering of women. Notice that Home Depot is offering “Do-It-Yourself” workshops and spe...
In Their Words 25 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
technology and society quotes from the past week. “a religion based around getting Facebook Likes” “Facebook has a ways to go before it catches up to coffee” “it explicitly privileges communicative...
From our Archives: Civil Rights History 24 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
Today is the 50th anniversary of the momentous march on Washington for Civil Rights. We’ve linked to a few Civil Rights movement-related posts here and have embedded Martin Luther King’s famous “I Ha...
