Black Surveillance Matters Megan Ming Francis Politics & Economics, Society & Culture The United States government has a long history of disrupting protest and illegally targeting leaders of social movement organizations. The monitoring of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests is the latest example...
Google, Tell Me. Is My Son Gay? Tristan Bridges Arts & Culture, Society & Culture In 2014, a story in The New York Times by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz went viral using Google Trend data to address gender bias in parental assessments of their children—“Google, Tell Me. Is My Son a...
For-Profit Journals Must End James Campbell Education, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture Why the old academic publishing model doesn't work anymore.
The Relevant Versus Narcissist Artist: How to Know If You Are a Narcissist Artist? Diana Rivera Arts & Culture, Psychology, Society & Culture People of the digital era, including all those on social media, provide enough substantial evidence to assert that people need to be relevant in the crowd. From photos of latest meals eaten along side Spike...
Human Agency and the Social Nodes Michele Battle-Fisher Politics & Economics, Society & Culture According to Anthony Giddens (1979), human agency must include an acting subject that deals with action linearly. In this duality of structure, on the most basic level people make up society but are inherently...
Chronic Illness, Caregiving and the 800-pound Gorilla Network Michele Battle-Fisher Science & Medicine, Society & Culture Private medical issues rarely remain concealed from the public. A “private” medical issue becomes everyone else’s business for a good reason. Health must be modeled as realistically as possible, as a...
The Pervasive and Elusive, Momentous and Mysterious Law (Part 2 of 3) Bruce K. Adler Politics & Economics, Society & Culture An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. -- Edmund Burke (in a speech in May 1789 favoring an impeachment) He who knows only his own side of the...
