Procrastadabbler

I’ve been really discouraged about my research/writing recently and really hating my teaching as well (not all of it, just parts). I can’t give up my teaching (it pays the bills), but I stepped away from the writing to see if it would make me feel better – not so stretched. I have writing projects [...]

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My daily paper has a weekly feature where some interior designer gives some slump advice on how to decorate their house. Hey, I could use the help too. I’m as slumpy as the next. But after this week’s advice, I think I’m better off with my home grown decorating sense.
In this week’s it was a [...]

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I have to admit to some dissatisfaction with the world of literacy research. The past few years have been filled with researchers in search of an original idea. We’re trying to figure out this multiple modality stuff, this new literacies stuff, and everyone seems to be bouncing around looking for the sexiest theory on which [...]

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There is a fascinating article in today’s NYTimes about the ways cell/mobile phone technology is being used by impoverished people in third world countries. The reporter explores how having a cell phone number is often the only fixed public identity marker some people may have, that having a cell phone allows people greater access to [...]

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Part of what I’ve been struggling with recently is my research agenda. It has, ostensibly, been about adolescent use of digital technologies and literacies and the implications of that use for their participation in today’s information/fast capitalist society. I’m still interested in that, but I’ve also been struggling with the issue of race and social [...]

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