precarious life & times: Lost in cyberspace, Nov13: 1

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Lost in cyberspace, Nov13: 1

…found by Storify on the New Faculty Majority Facebook page & Twitter stream, with pit stops at New Faculty Majority and NFM Foundation Web 1.0 hideouts, YouTube flyby and more. This inaugural issue opens with selected stories and discussions currently unfolding on Facebook: CFP deadlines, conferences and a pay wall. More to come. Join the discussion.

View the story "Lost in cyberspace, Nov13: 1" on Storify Lost in cyberspace, Nov13: 1 This issue features stories currently on the New Faculty Majority Facebook page. Later issues will cover Twitter streams, YouTube, pit stops at NewFac & NFM Foundation's Web1.0 hideouts & more Storified by · Tue, Nov 13 2012 13:50:13 Stories unfolding on Facebook: CFP deadlines, conferences and a pay wall. More to come. Join the discussion! #CallForPapers Deadline…Nov16 for #SWTX PCA/ACA 2013 conference, February 13-16, #ABQ NM…de-acronymized, Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Association…a small p popular, fun conference to attend SWTX PCA/ACASWTX PCA/ACA Conference Contacts: For Organizational Questions/Presenter Database/Future Conferences: Lynnea Chapman King, PhD Executive ... Don't worry about postmarks: you can submit online ~ but get cracking on it. Today is the 13th ~ the deadline is this coming Friday.New Faculty Majority Coalition Deadline past but if you can, don't miss this outstanding free forum (with lunch to boot). Speakers and Panelists include: Gary Rhoades, Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education College of Education University of Arizona; Pablo Eisenberg, Senior Fellow, Georgetown Public Policy Institute; Wayne Langley, Director, Higher Education Division, SEIU Local 615; Esther Merves, Research Director, New Faculty Majority; Dan Maxey, Dean’s Fellow in Urban Education Policy, Pullias Center for Higher Education, University of Southern California; Maria Maisto, President, New Faculty Majority; Ethan Miller, American University Student Worker Alliance; Marisa Allison, George Mason University Graduate Student Sociological Association
Please RSVP to Anne McLeer at mcleera@seiu500.org
CAL4 Conference - Contingent Academic Labor Confronting Inequalities in Higher EducationCaste and Classes: Contingent Academic Labor Confronting Inequalities in Higher Education Date: Saturday, December 1st, 2012 Time: 9am to... More time for this next one ~ December 31 for a June 2013 conference. Learn more about Katherine's exciting ideas for adjunct advocacy in a state where unionizing is not an option. Check out the Facebook page too Hi all. I'm pursuing becoming part of the Strategic Planning Committee here at Kent State (or at least raising adjunct issues with the committee). Any advice or thoughts you have about your experiences with this? <br> Also, I would like to pursue launching Legislative Theatre sessions at universities to help us (contingent faculty, students, administrators, everybody) find policy solutions to adjunct-related issues. Something we would need to do is to have a mass training in Legislative Theatre, which I am happy to lead. Would people be interested in this? It's incredibly effective (Legislative Theatre is a branch of Theatre of the Oppressed, created by Augusto Boal). The annual Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed conference is being held in Oxford, Ohio in June 2013. I encourage everyone to attend! Katherine Burke Sounds neat and an innovative approach ~ something to learn and post more about, http://ptoweb.wordpress.com/conference/ Thanks for the conference notice too. I notice that PTO has a Facebook too.New Faculty Majority Coalition Yes! Please join our Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/ptoincKatherine Burke Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed, Inc.Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed, Inc. 2,392 likes · 12 talking about this. Thanks, Katherine. We did ~ and added to our page favorites! So should the rest of you!
But now onto another chapter of the story... the rise of the adjunct and the Chronicle pay wall which keeps so many adjuncts out Imgur #AnotherPayWallAdjunctArticle_Enough! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fchronicle.com%2Farticle%2FUnlucky-Jim-the-Rise-of-the%2F135606%2F%3Fcid%3Dcc%26utm_source%3Dcc%26utm_medium%3Den&h=5AQEp0gK6&s=1" class="">http://chronicle.com/article/Unlucky-Jim-the-Rise-of-the/135606/?cid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en</a> Ugh.Karen Zgoda I don't understand why all the articles about adjuncts are behind paywalls. Sort of defeats the purpose, it seems. Who do we need to talk to about this?!Melissa Bruninga-Matteau Is there a way we can reroute this to their Chronicle page now to have them see our discontent?Ana Maria Fores Tamayo Not unless The Chronicle of Higher Education page is tagged in the original post, although tagging in comments as I've done here should show up on their news feed. If tended by a human (why am I now thinking of the Brautigan poem?), someone might take note ~ tended by bot or algorithm, that would another matter. I'll post this separately and tag the Chronicle, http://i.imgur.com/JRhuF.jpg ~ so what do you think of doing this regularly?Vanessa Vaile Too bad I cant read it as it is only Chronicle subscribers only.Diana Ramseyer

Ed note: this Storify, created by Vanessa Vaile, collates shared links and visitor comments from NFM's public Facebook page and does not necessarily reflect NFM policy or opinions of other board members.

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