Pictures - Kerry, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1858-1928. Miss Yan ski jumping, Snowy Mountains, New South Wales, ca. 1900 [picture] Goths up trees. Knowledge translation, mobilization and the #MyResearch hashtag. While many scholars (particularly now-tenured, though some non-tenured too) have taken to blogging and social media lately (the movement seems to have exploded in 2011 and 2012, with many academic conferences having their own Twitter hashtag – check the American Anthropology Association, the MLA and the upcoming American Association of Geographers 2012 hashtags), I have experimented with social media since 2006 (though, at the time, it was purely for personal use).
I have been using social media in my teaching and my own research extensively since 2009, and I’m glad that my fellow academics are now embracing it as a tool to build new collaborative research networks. That’s the purpose of the #MyResearch hashtag. Fellow academics: please tweet a summary of your research interest. Hashtag #myResearch and please RT widely #phdchat thanks! — Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) January 13, 2012 As a way to provide context, let me summarize a bit of my academic history. We got trouble. - Visible Children - KONY 2012 Criticism. Being the punch line | Sitcom men. Ty Burrell plays the hapless Phil Dunphy in Modern Family. Because feminism is a broad church, feminists interpret it broadly. One of the ways I personally choose to practice feminism is as a movement that aims to liberate women AND men from the oppressive cultural structures that seek to bind them both. Consider VC Medalist Ben Roberts-Smith and the burning pitchforks being thrust at Yumi Stynes (with George Negus’ role seemingly quietly erased in people’s memories).
Had he been a footballer or a politician or the kind of all-Australian surf bunny found trawling the dunes of Summer Bay, very few people would have found themselves gaping at the screen that morning. The truly shocking thing about this story isn’t that some people thoughtlessly insulted a VC medalist – it’s that we aren’t similarly offended by the copious amount of sexism towards men that floods our TVs every day. Advertisement Think about the following three schools of advertising that you may have seen on TV recently. Laurie Penny: That's enough politeness – women need to rise up in anger - Commentators - Opinion. International Women's Day began as a day of rebellion and outlandish demands – Equal pay! Votes for women! Reproductive rights! – but 101 years later, judging by the invitations in my email inbox, it seems to be more about jazzy corporate lunches, poetry competitions and praising our valued sponsors.
At the UN, in a session on body image and the media, delegates (who are meeting this week) applauded politely as a promotional anti-airbrushing video by Dove cosmetics was shown. Cabinet Minister Lynne Featherstone gave a speech in which she condemned the "distorted image of beauty" offered by cosmetics advertisers, and lauded the efforts Dove has apparently made to change this while selling body lotion at £7.49 a tube. The British delegates present failed entirely to mention that Featherstone is part of a government responsible for putting more women out of work than at any point since records began.
A huge cultural change is taking place all over the world right now. Deeds, not words. Dear Ryan Gosling.. stop being so Ryan Gosling. Just. Stop. Mamamia. Hey Boy, I think we need to talk. You have to stop. Just stop. It’s getting to be too much. See, I’m just a girl who sits in a cubicle all day. I have to live in a real world. Not the kind of “real world” with MTV cameras and token drama queens. For my own sanity and for the sanity of women like me everywhere, I made a list of ways in which you can stop being so Ryan Gosling. 1) Stop being so attractive. Just look at you. Ryan Gosling with his mum Donna You’re like Derek Zoolander, dude. 2) Stop adoring women so much.
Every time you are with a woman you have this way of looking at her as though she is the most important thing in the universe. More Americans Rejecting Marriage in 50s and Beyond. Lauren Collins: Dujardin, Pre-Artiste. Last summer, a twelve-year-old French boy came to stay with us for a week. During his time in London, he was interested in doing two things: “le bowling” and watching “Brice de Nice” (clip below). The latter is a 2005 film starring a bleached-blonde Jean Dujardin as a dippy wannabe surfer who worships Patrick Swayze (“Point Break” Patrick Swayze, not “Dirty Dancing” Patrick Swayze) and lives in search of the big wave.
Problem is, he lives in Nice, where the ocean is flat as a lake. It’s a great movie for two reasons. First, if you ever have a twelve-year-old French boy stay with you for a week, you can put it on the DVD player, and both his requests to go bowling and the kicking of balls against walls will cease. “Brice de Nice” is the “Anchorman” of France. It is to adolescent males what Teletubbies are to babies. Dujardin’s big number in “Brice” is a song-and-dance sequence called le casse de Brice. Photograph: Everett Collection.