Expanding our imaginations through play

I often think about theoretical models as lenses that you pick up, which help particular patterns or objects come into focus. I had one of these strange moments where new things became visible after listening to the War on Cars episode on the lack of bike lanes in LEGO. Suddenly I began noticing how many … Continue reading Expanding our imaginations through play →

Maintenance/creation

One of the reasons I'm pushing myself to start blogging - with few demands on myself to do it well - is that I have found my life becoming utterly dominated by labours of maintenance and care, with little space for creation. In rare moments of reflection over recent months, I managed to piece together … Continue reading Maintenance/creation →

A letter to my students awaiting feedback

I've been meaning to get back to regular blogging, just to get in the habit of shaping words, and I realised that today I wrote something that I wanted to share more broadly than the Discussion Board where I posted it. My students have been awaiting feedback on their essays, and sadly for a variety … Continue reading A letter to my students awaiting feedback →

When the house is on fire, but also needs a tidy

Climate change has been a background theme in most of my research and thinking, but it felt like one issue among many: part of these interconnected global struggles to resist authoritarianism, to push back against corporate power, to build solidarity with each other. About three years ago I went on parental leave. My research, which … Continue reading When the house is on fire, but also needs a tidy →

Teaching with, and about, the Internet

In a recent talk at the AoIR 2019 conference, I suggested that it would be helpful to have some kind of collaborative guidelines, similar to the AoIR ethics guidelines, around teaching in Internet Studies and related fields. (For more on my reasoning, see the bite-sized Twitter version of talk.) https://twitter.com/scroeser/status/1179580906224279552 In the period after giving … Continue reading Teaching with, and about, the Internet →