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Rainbow RodeoIn this week's column, editor Rachel Cholst explores an old sociological theory to explain why queer country artists like Jake Blount and Riggings are so compelling.<a href="https://rainbowrodeomag.com/inner-directed-country-music-jake-blount-riggings-evoke-a-mid-century-social-critique-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://rainbowrodeomag.com/inner-directed-country-music-jake-blount-riggings-evoke-a-mid-century-social-critique-2/</a><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/QueerCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QueerCountry</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Americana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americana</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/CountryMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CountryMusic</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/RootsMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RootsMusic</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/LGBTQMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQMusic</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/QueerMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QueerMusic</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/LGBTQMusician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQMusician</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TransMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransMusic</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TransMusician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransMusician</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtq</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a>

Dana WilliamsJust finished <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> Ali Meghji's book "Decolonizing <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sociology</a>"--great analysis of how <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> affected the sociology discipline & theoretical <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/canon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canon</a>. He argues for subverting sociological imperialism, centering the process and effects of coloniality within sociological research, & embracing <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/autonomous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autonomous</a> sociologies. It's very readable & approachable, clear in argument but also in its advocacy for walking a new path. Highly recommended, even for students.<a href="https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=decolonizing-sociology-an-introduction--9781509541942" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=decolonizing-sociology-an-introduction--9781509541942</a>

Let's make this difficult ⚫🟣⚪🟡The family group/tribe is built on mutual support, but the modern conservative version is transactional, based on membership and loyalty. Actions that look like kindness are in reality actions to reinforce tribal loyalty. I think this is why so many people in conservative communties, who are trapped in entirely conservative information spaces, have a hard time breaking free. They see examples of community support as affirmations of their community goodness, and this narrative is drummed into them constantly. Conservative leaders have the advantage of labeling any disruptive people or ideas as 'foreign' and a threat, even if from within the community, so that they never even have to engage with new ideas on merit.Kindness isnt a relevant trait to their tribal functioning, because the ability to be unkind and cruel to people who arent toeing the tribal line is necessary to upholding 'family law'. Kindness in others undermines their attempts to police peoples behavior (this is why its so important that men are in charge). Therefore, not only is kindness devalued, it is actively persecuted as a threat to conservative values. And that is only treatment of your in-group. If you reject kindness internally, imagine how easy it is to subject an out-group to cruel inhumanity. You can literally justify anything. What is horrifying is the degree to which everyday members of conservative communities have become willfully blind to the terrible treatment of others in order to hang on to an image of community goodness. I have witnessed far too much of this in my life.Its worth stating that the left has its own, different kind of tribalism. They embrace kindness but there is a lot of pressure to prove the right kind of worth. It has a distinctly multicultural, anti-authoritarian tribalism, where the rules of the tribe are under constant negotiation. This makes communicating a platform challenging. Its a lot simpler for conservative platforms whose rules come from demagogues and an old book.The flaw of designing a system without compassion is that the cruelty eventually becomes impossible to hide from the tribe, and the cruelty comes for everyone. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anthropology</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kindness</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/geopol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geopol</a>

the pitchshifterzso humans ARE actually nice… we were right all along! 🤣👽💚 this is pretty fascinating book about the science of human kindness, and what we can do to promote it. we’re very interested in kindness, because it seems like people don’t always know what it is and isn’t - and that includes us! being awkward isn’t inherently unkindness. not knowing something isn’t inherently unkindness. not having all the answers isn’t inherently unkindness. having boundaries and wishing people would respect them isnt inherently unkindness. but discrimination, turning away from other people’s problems and reality all the time, and enforcing meaningless “rules” to keep others down absolutely are. so what do we do about it? well, what HAVE we done about it? hopefully we can get back to it, because the underlying message is just to be kind. ☮️ including to yourselves, friends!! 🩵 <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/books?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/reading?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/science?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sociology?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a>

ꓤɔᴉʇɐʇSThere's definitely a much better way to do it but here's my really messy freedom equation with way too many comments.It calculates the total amount of freedom a population has by separating things everyone can do from things everyone can stop others from doing.<a href="https://guild.pmdcollab.org/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a>

RC21-ISA Urban&Reg. SociologyAre you a PhD or early-career researcher working on <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/urban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#urban</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/inequalities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inequalities</a> and related themes? Join us for the Emerging Urban Inequalities <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conference</a> in Sheffield, UK on 26-27 June 2025. Submit your abstract by 25 April. More info at: <a href="https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/emu-conference" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/emu-conference</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/urban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#urban</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a>

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<a href="https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8910982/international-womens-day-2025-radical-anti-feminism-on-the-rise" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8910982/international-womens-day-2025-radical-anti-feminism-on-the-rise</a>QuoteNever has a women's revolution been so desperately needed. Right here. Right now.Australian women kickstarted one 50 years ago. We need to crank it up again.On this day, International Women's Day, 1975, prime minister Gough Whitlam called for a "revolution in people's heads".This was straight out of the feminist manifesto of the Australian Women's Liberation Movement, with whom Whitlam wholeheartedly agreed.The United Nations had declared '75 International Women's Year and called on every nation to step up. Whitlam was all in. He urged women to "give the world a shove in the right direction."Appalled by media misogyny and overt sexism, Whitlam told his audience, "... our overriding task and challenge for this year is to strike out at the attitudes".Female oppression was "deeply embedded ... in the psychology of the society", he said. That must change.As Whitlam knew, driving real change - transformative social and cultural change, that attempts to take the nation with you - takes moral leadership. And political capital.International Women's Day has a way of focusing our attention. For the past decade it has become performative, overtaken by purple ribbons and cupcakes. While we sit on our hands.This year, listening to the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese's dreary words about "marching forward", reflecting on how far "Australia has come" and "the foundations we've laid", was like floating mindlessly inside the bubble of a parallel universe, disconnected to the real world that real women live in.Albanese's IWD speech at the annual parliamentary breakfast, hosted by UN Women, did nothing to acknowledge, much less address, the almighty anti-woman sentiment and backlash whipping women around the globe right now. Including we meek sods sitting in front of him.According to UN Women, one in four nations report backlash on women's rights. They report "higher levels of discrimination and weaker legal protections" across the world.Fascist plutocracies are literally ripping up reproductive rights - exciting conservative men in places such as Queensland and South Australia, who sniff the changing winds of patriarchal power.Others, such as misogynistic theocracies in Iran and Afghanistan, are playing the God card to justify dehumanising women and banning basic human rights and freedom of movement.In Australia women's freedom of movement, voice and expression have all taken a serious hit, now that "radical anti-feminism" is an official thing. Research from Melbourne University shocked but confirmed what women can see for themselves - female hatred is coming out of the closet. The data found "20 per cent of Australian men believe that feminism should be violently resisted."We know that men "frustrated out of their brain" because they can't "get a girlfriend", can hunt down women in a Bondi shopping mall stabbing spree, and yet still authorities don't call it "terrorism", because it wasn't "ideologically" motivated."Radical anti-feminism", as detailed by the Melbourne researchers, sounds like a dangerous ideology to me.Albanese says we need to be "clear about where we still have a long way to go."Well, two out of every five Australians are already clear. They think "women's equal rights have gone far enough", according to research out this week from the Global Institute of Women's Leadership. Young men think this most.Misogyny doesn't die out with the old dinosaurs. It's new, hip, cool and likes a bet on bitcoin. It's all the rage in the US these days.The death of DEI was swift. As if suffering battered wife syndrome, American institutions learnt quickly to shut up and submit. The US National Science Foundation is not the only research organisation to remove the words "woman", "female" and gender from its website.So, what can we take from those revolutionaries of five decades ago? Those women who set about changing their world and themselves along the way? Women whose stated goal was not "equality", but "liberation!"When Whitlam's Women's adviser, Elizabeth Reid, walked on stage at the inaugural UN World Conference on Women, in Mexico City, 1975, to mark International Women's Year, she had steel in her spine. Over 6000 women activists, 1300 government delegates from 133 nations, and 1000 media representatives had arrived. The UN called it the "greatest consciousness raising event in history".The world was watching and Australia's representative was there to prize open the one subject the UN did not want on the agenda - sexism. Reid let rip."We live in societies ... ruled by men - our societies are patriarchal," she said, eyeballing world leaders."None of us live in, and it is impossible to imagine living in, a non-sexist society."The word sexism had never been used in an official UN forum before. UN member states were squirming. Reid pushed on."The basis of racism, racial discrimination, colonialism and neo-colonialism ... is similar to that violence against women which we call sexism. It is based on the need ... for power over other human beings. Patriarchy is yet another form of colonising people."It is, she said, "a colonisation by mute consent".The New York Times called Reid a "militant feminist". Historians call her an international "feminist rockstar". By the end of the UN conference, Australia was lauded for its bold, progressive approach to ending discrimination against women. Even the UN secretary-general praised Whitlam's International Women's Year program, with its focus on changing women's attitudes to themselves, and men's attitudes towards women.But such transformative change demands nothing short of revolutionary thinking. Elizabeth Ried, her fellow femocrats and the Australian women's movement lit a feminist fire that burned bright, but now is fading from history. It worked for them. And we need it now.In recent years, Reid asked a Canberra audience, "Why does such a movement seem so anachronistic today? What happened to this social movement? Don't women need liberating anymore?"I asked ChatGPT. The computer said "yes".<ul><li> Virginia Haussegger AM is a Canberra journalist and writer.</li></ul>Unquote<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteGreens</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProgIndies</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreTotallyFscked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTotallyFscked</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WeAreSelfishCruelBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misanthropy</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FsckOffDutton</a>! 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RC21-ISA Urban&Reg. SociologyAnother Latin American open-access journal on geography and urban issues is Punto Sur, whose latest issues deals with gentrification, touristification and urban renewal cases in the region. Articles are in Spanish or Portuguese. <a href="http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/RPS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/RPS</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/urban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#urban</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a>

Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:"A society where it is increasingly commonplace to use your phone in a darkened movie theater, because you believe maintaining your personal comfort justifies causing unpleasantness to people around you—a society where people unironically degrade others as "NPCs"—is a society where it is accepted and even encouraged to get yours while everyone else can go get fucked."<a href="https://defector.com/there-are-other-people-in-the-world" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://defector.com/there-are-other-people-in-the-world</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/selfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selfish</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/shame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shame</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/shameless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shameless</a>

Hannah HoweThursday 28 February 1963Two Labour MPs, Mr Harold Davies and Mr Will Owen, have put down a Commons motion suggesting that a world fund be set up under the United Nations for the relief of distress due to natural disasters.<a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SocialHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialHistory</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Music</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Motoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Motoring</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Computers</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/1960s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1960s</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sociology</a>

Mx VerdaI only just started this book and I fucking love it. Please read. Thank. <a href="https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/indigenous-critical-reflections-on-traditional-ecological-knowledge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/indigenous-critical-reflections-on-traditional-ecological-knowledge</a> but no srsly, thank you for considering it. It feels like talking to a friend who Knows how fucked up your family is. You've been away for a while, so you're shielded from the worst of their damaging tantrums, but uncompromising bare facts of the situation still sober you up somehow. <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/BookTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookTok</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/BookLovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookLovers</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/libro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libro</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/libros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libros</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/leer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leer</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/read" 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class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MVSKOKE</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/eco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eco</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/PoliticalEcology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalEcology</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/BehavioralEcology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BehavioralEcology</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/land" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#land</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/learn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#learn</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener 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<a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/comm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comm</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/comms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comms</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communication</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#culture</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ethnicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethnicity</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meaning</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/SolarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarPunk</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/punk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punk</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/critique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#critique</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/relationships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#relationships</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/responsibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#responsibility</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/reciprocity" class="mention hashtag" 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href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/conviviality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conviviality</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/cooperation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cooperation</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/cooperative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cooperative</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MutualAid</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/HelpPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HelpPeople</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/CoCreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoCreation</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collaboration</a> <a 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pseudometaThere are strong indications that attempts to accelerate medical research on COVID-19 may have in fact slowed down research on the virus. That is the core insight of a peer-reviewed paper I wrote that just got published in Minerva. The pandemic may be over, but I hope that this paper will prove useful in case of a (not very unlikely) future pandemic.<a href="https://pkm.social/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#covid</a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COVID19</a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/sts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sts</a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/ScienceMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceMastodon</a> <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09560-0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09560-0</a>

Josh WellsHad my social informatics students read work <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> did with Consumer Reports about social media federation and user rights. Also considering what we can learn about society, technology, and ethics from science fiction. If anybody is interested in reusing, here's the text of the module. Comments welcome if you plan to use or have used./* ACTIVITY BEGINSSETUP: Students work with this material in collaborative file spaceAs a group, read these two connected pieces:1. “Inside the Clock Tower: An Interoperability Story,” a short story by Cory Doctorow, commissioned by Consumer Reports regarding user experiences on social media and how regulatory legislation might affect those experiences - <a href="https://innovation.consumerreports.org/inside-the-clock-tower" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://innovation.consumerreports.org/inside-the-clock-tower</a> 2. “An Interview with Tech Activist and Author Cory Doctorow,” about the ACCESS Act by Consumer Reports - <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/digital-rights/an-interview-with-tech-activist-and-author-cory-doctorow-a1943952645" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.consumerreports.org/digital-rights/an-interview-with-tech-activist-and-author-cory-doctorow-a1943952645</a> Answer these questions as a group in the space below:1. How can you use our class science fiction readings to connect Doctorow’s assessment of the real social media landscape with his portrayal of a social media landscape in science fiction?2. How can you use lessons from Kling, Hanson, and Coleman to explain how Doctorow’s actions here are a kind of folksy social informatics?3. How can you connect Doctorow’s work in both pieces to your understanding of the Mastodon social network?ACTIVITY ENDS */<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/sts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sts</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/compsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#compsci</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/informatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#informatics</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anthropology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/highereducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highereducation</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/openeducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openeducation</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/oer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oer</a>

Julia S.THE POWER OF CREATING A HOME, and how that is a fundamentally revolutionary act for Black women and other historically marginalized people, presented in a thoughtful and visually beautiful book. Vital reading for these times. A MINUS<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stand-in-my-window-latonya-yvette/1144483389?ean=9780593242414" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stand-in-my-window-latonya-yvette/1144483389?ean=9780593242414</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookreview</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bookreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookreviews</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feminism</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Blackwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwriters</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Blackwomanwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwomanwriters</a>

Jeffrey YostThrilled my tremendous HSTM & CBI, U. of Minnesota colleague Honghong Tinn will give a CBI lecture from her incredible new book Island Tinkerers on History of Computing in Taiwan. Feb 25th at 2pm Central. Join us! Register at link below for Zoom link.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sociology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sociology</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/anthropology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@anthropology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taiwan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sts</a> cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/i...

T. T. PerryDecentering Judgment: Toward a Postmodern Communication Ethic Martha Cooper, 1998 in Judgment Calls, ed J. Sloop"While modernist conceptions of ethics might begin with principles drawn from religion, political theory, or other sources, a postmodern perspective toward ethics will begin with communication. Postmodernity poses a challenge because the very ground for judgments seems to have split apart beneath those who would judge"<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429499487-5/decentering-judgment-martha-cooper" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429499487-5/decentering-judgment-martha-cooper</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ethics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sociology</a>

suzanne<a href="https://dawdling.net/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a> again! I'm pretty bland. Been a stay at home parent. Do food delivery gig work. Worked back of the house in bakeries. Studied computer science, psychology, and music. Degree in music. Did nothing with it. Enjoyed getting it.Been online since about 1995. Fascinated by how people interact and live. So <a href="https://dawdling.net/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://dawdling.net/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://dawdling.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://dawdling.net/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folklore</a> <a href="https://dawdling.net/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#culture</a> <a href="https://dawdling.net/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a> etc...Also I have a nearly 30 year history of wading into random conversations online with "yes, but...."Sorry 😊

Merlin Gillard 🚋😷Small <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a>: I'm a <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhD</a> Candidate based in LISER (LU) and VUB (BE), working on <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/PublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicTransport</a> (PT), namely fare-free policies, PT <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#policing</a>, and <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> in PT. Generally interested in <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/qualitative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#qualitative</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/SocialSciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialSciences</a>, <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geography</a>, <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a>, <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anthropology</a>, <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/UrbanStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UrbanStudies</a>... And a lot of politics.Currently, I'm a part of a team working on fare-free public transport: you can check out our website to follow our work, esp. our world <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a> of fare-free agencies! <a href="https://freepublictransport.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://freepublictransport.net</a>

Jyoti MishraI’m Jyoti and I’m a professional musician. This song is my only claim to fame: <a href="https://youtu.be/lVL-zZnD3VU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/lVL-zZnD3VU</a> I’m a <a href="https://mas.to/tags/singersongwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#singersongwriter</a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/producer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#producer</a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/label" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#label</a>. I love helping people out with <a href="https://mas.to/tags/proaudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proaudio</a> / <a href="https://mas.to/tags/recording" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recording</a> / <a href="https://mas.to/tags/synthesizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#synthesizer</a> / <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DAW</a> problems so please just ask. I also write for <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SoundOnSound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoundOnSound</a> magazineMy actual degree is in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sociology</a>, specifically <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Ethnomethodology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ethnomethodology</a> and my final was an <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Ethnography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ethnography</a> of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AltCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AltCulture</a>I’m also very much into <a href="https://mas.to/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#films</a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/tv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tv</a>

**That Nonproductive Guy** @nonproductive@mastodon.social · Nov 18, 2022

Nov 18, 2022

That Nonproductive Guy @nonproductive@mastodon.social

I've held off on an #introduction for a while, simply because I find everyone else's intros much more fascinating.

I've been involved with tech since before household computers were a thing and have spent the last couple decades doing IT Proj Mgmt work for everyone from tiny startups to Fortune 500 companies. Software and hardware.

My interests are pretty fluid depending on what catches my attention but #dogs, #nature, #3dPrinting, #Photography, #Gadgets and #sociology are pretty consistent.

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