I’m not really one to gif, but it is straight up alarming how accurately Drag Race gifs capture the facial expressions I make while grading.*
*yes I am aware that this says more about me than it does about grading, but that doesn’t make it any less true.
From May 2nd to May 4th, I will be at Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) taking part in the 4th ICTs and Society Conference. The conference features a fantastic lineup of plenary talks as well as a wide array of submitted papers/presentations (full program here [PDF]).
For my part, I’ll be contributing to the “Philosophy and Ethics of Information: The Good and the Evil in the Information Society” panel (2:30 - 4:30 PM, Seminar Room B159). My talk -“Rewiring Rawls: Social Justice, Technology, and the Information Society” (based on a chapter of my in-progress dissertation) - revisits the foundations of Rawls’ justice as fairness and interrogates the theory’s appropriateness (or, rather, inappropriateness) for conceiving of social justice in contemporary information societies. In particular, I ask whether certain Rawlsian model-conceptions (of “moral persons” and “well-ordered societies”) are helpful in addressing issues of justice in the face of large-scale and pervasive sociotechnical systems, like the Internet. My answer to that question is, more or less, “I don’t think so,” and I hope to lay out my thoughts on the ways in which Rawls is both right and wrong for thinking about justice and technology today.
Btw, this presentation is why I’m in Sweden. Also: I moved my semi-professional blogging-related activities to Tumblr, and if you are interested in that part of me/my stuff/what I do, then you can follow me at this address! (Fwiw, I’ll probably be moving more of my tumblring activities over there in the coming months.)
Last night at the Dawes/Peter Wolf Crier/Moondoggies show, I mentioned that I am (barely) in this video—keep an eye out around the 14-second mark. I feel like I need to bring this up every so often because it is ridiculous and surreal. Nice hat and Miller High Life bottle cap necklace, bro. (I still have that hat. Also of note: I wore a Sublime shirt to a Pete Yorn concert for some reason.)
I am also in this video! You can find me next to Ben - I’m the tall guy in the denim jacket with a big plop of blonde hair (I know, right?) who helps push Who’sie Whatshisname lead singer guy back on stage. Also: Jason Schwartzman yelled at me after this show.
And, while I am in that video, I can safely say I have no idea who that person is anymore.
Another random, crypic music video reference (this time in the form of a self-reblog-reblog) to celebrate some more good PhD-related news that I don’t want to Tumblr about quite yet! THIS HAS BEEN YET ANOTHER POST! YAY!
The event may be six (SIX!) years old, but I will never tire of telling my information technology ethics students about that Second Life cloud of flying penises thing.
so the thing that I was excited about yesterday but held off on tumblring about is that I was accepted into the Oxford Internet Institute’s Summer Doctoral Programme this year which means I get to spend a chunk of July studying at Oxford (Oxford!) and well basically that is the best sort of news I could receive at this point in my phd lyfe
oh and the reason I posted that Hot Chip video is because their guitarist is an alumnus of St. Hugh’s College where participants in the SDP will be housed (see i told you it was a roundabout reference)
Hot Chip - “Boy From School”
I got some really excellent news today which I want to hold off on Tumblr-ing about until some things are squared away so instead I will post this video which relates to said good news in the most roundabout way possible. So, there. This is a post that I am posting.
1 part nicest day of the year so far…
1 part …during the week before spring break…
1 part …while some heating/cooling apparatus in the hallway bangs loudly and continuously for the first 45 minutes, shaking both the wall and the screen that your projector is aimed at.
This week: I am over it.
boom. heading to Stockholm and Uppsala (for this thing that I have been accepted to present at), first week of May.
<3 u, Scandinavia. c u again sooooooon
document submitted i am sitting here at my desk and i have no idea what to do with myself quick somebody ask me to research something before i have a panic attack
A screengrab of the (not yet finished) reference list for my dissertation proposal.
1. Manually entered because
2. HATE U CITATION MANAGERS FOR ALL BEING ENTIRELY WORTHLESS, STUPID JERKS but
3. <3 u, Kantian Constructivism (STRATEGIC HIGHLIGHT)
:: collapses into bed ::
l3fan-o-rama replied to your post: I find that internet-speak is a useful way to…
this is great.
As pointed out to me by someone on FB, other internet-speak terms that are useful when working through academic writing: “STFU,” “tl;dr,” and “O RLY?”
I find that internet-speak is a useful way to annotate in-progress drafts. For example, if I make a claim that requires further discussion or clarification, but I do not want to break a train of thought to do so, inserting [MOAR!] after it and moving on ensures that 1. I am leaving myself a reminder to go back, 2. in searching for these reminders, I can search for “MOAR” instead of “more” (which would hit on actual uses of the word more, and not simply the reminders), and 3. I give myself intermittent and utterly nerdy lols during what can often be a tedious process.
In other words: I CAN HAZ PhDEE NOW? KTHXBAI
