Oh, #peerreview. Last day in the office before break. One really snitty review request with "PLEASE RESPOND"; one of the journals I AE for asking me to assign reviewers by Friday. Can we all not just take it easy til January? #academics #academicthings

My latest publication explores how #gendered expectations impact the #hiring and #content commissioning practices of #streamingmedia, especially post the #metoo movement in #India.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15274764221135798
#academics #AcademicThings #academiafeminista

Whether the inclement weather will permit me to leave here I don’t know but at least I made it here to give a presentation. #northkorea #AcademicThings #sanctions

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The Myth of the Secret Genius

'The language used mattered a lot. If someone referred to their research as “innovative,” or “game-changing,” for example, they would be more likely to get funding than if someone accurately depicted it as an important, but incremental step toward better knowledge. And guess who tended to use over-confident language that promised the moon?

Men.'🤠

Brian Klaas Nov 30 💼

https://brianklaas.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-secret-genius
#AcademicThings #Rhetoric #Research

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'As we inch closer to the 100-year anniversary of Walter Benjamin’s One-Way Street, it is timely to remind ourselves that journeys in knowledge are rarely linear or constructed from large waypoints. This great creative work, a masterclass in the relations of part and whole, is roughly contemporary with another creative work which is only now hitting it stride – the doctorate.'
#AcademicThings #Research

https://nitro.edu.au/articles/2022/6/17/creative-phds-no-one-way-street :blobnom:

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'As we inch closer to the 100-year anniversary of Walter Benjamin’s One-Way Street, it is timely to remind ourselves that journeys in knowledge are rarely linear or constructed from large waypoints. This great creative work, a masterclass in the relations of part and whole, is roughly contemporary with another creative work which is only now hitting it stride – the doctorate.'

Craig Batty and Marnie Hughes-Warrington

#AcademicThings #Research

https://nitro.edu.au/articles/2022/6/17/creative-phds-no-one-way-street :blobnom: