Author jeremy Posted on AugAugCategories Uncategorized 17 Comments on bingo wars! a beautiful method More broadly, though, I wonder if people will start to question the default model of organizing sessions as a series of people having the floor for 15-20 minute turns of talk. But I can see where others might see it as being like passing notes during a talk, only if those notes were posted on a giant whiteboard behind the speaker so that everybody but her could read them. I don’t have any problem with it, and seems like something everybody will need to get used to regardless. If folks are talking about reading a few tweets from a session as a substitute for attending it, you know, maybe we should start reconsidering the prolonged reciprocal captive-audience model on which conferences like ASA are based?Īnyway: I wonder if there is going to be intergenerational tension in the coming years about the etiquette of in-session tweeting. I could deliver an avuncular tsk-tsk about that, but it would be completely hypocritical given my own lately-regrettable record of panel attendance and tendencies toward junkie-style surreptitious smartphone-checking if my attention has wandered and I have the opportunity. On the other hand, the Twitter card does seem to raise what may be a basic problem - which is that, for many-such-people much-of-the-time, sitting still and simply listening to somebody talk about their work for fifteen minutes is no longer enough on its own. If a speaker says something out-of-step with standpoint theory nowadays, are they really more likely to be met with an eyeroll, or met with younger scholars’ eyes darting down to their smartphone/tablet so they can tweet about it? Here is an alternative Bingo card that a couple Twitter users have made that better reflects their view about the social-media-augmented ASA.įrankly, I don’t get the part in the authors’ post about how Kieran’s card “revealed much about the sociological discipline and the problems with the annual meetings.” Kieran’s cards seems to me to involve some gentle ribbing here and there, but overall don’t exactly provoke the possibility that there might be something basically wrong–or, at least, decreasingly viable–about the conference. Row 3, Column 2 from Kieran’s bingo card this year: “Eyeroll from Chronically Hip Grad Student.” But, let’s face it: eyerolling is such a meatspace maneuver anymore. Author jeremy Posted on AugAugCategories Uncategorized 26 Comments on and don’t hit your american sociological society on the door on your way out bingo wars! Anybody have a sense of how this balanced out? They’re forgetting how much people saved on average on their hotel rooms and airfare.” To which I had no reply. We knew ASA Vegas was going to be special, but… has there been an ASA before where part of the aftermath was a story in the hosting city’s local media telling us not to come back? Īlso, fact-check question: I’ve heard the complaint from various people that ASA Vegas was unusually expensive, especially for students, but when I repeated this to someone today, they said, “That’s absurd. Author andrewperrin Posted on AugCategories politics 8 Comments on anatomy of liberal bias cha-cha-cha-cha-changes Now, I generally agree with that proposition, but I do think that treating it as an assumption constitutes bias. Could they pay for a privatized piece of the administration, and use revenues so generated to fund the truly public missions (e.g., hurricane tracking)? Could foreign governments “subscribe” to such services? I have no idea if either of these is at all reasonable, but the story contained what seems to me an unexamined assumption: if something is important, government should support it. For example, much of the weather data provided by NOAA is ultimately piped through commercial handlers (media, websites, etc.). Remaining unasked were questions of whether there might be other ways to organize the provision of such services. However it seemed to me that there was an unspoken bias to the story: NOAA is important, the message of the story goes, and as such budget cutters ought to be very careful with what they choose to cut. The reporting is excellent the sources are strong the background is thorough and well-researched. The story can be found here.Īs I said, it’s a classic NPR story. It was a discussion of budget cuts and the potential effect on NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). This morning on NPR I heard a classic NPR-like story.
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