I think the question is really why and also if this is an assignment for graduate students, have you prepared them for potential violence, harassment, etc. Do you have a safety and security section? Visibility=Violence for a bunch of us especially BIWOC.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @WendyLBelcher and
I stopped having students (even in DH) do public work b/c of safety&security. I think it's a problem to put it as an option without explaining the often violent, long-term pitfalls so they understand what it may mean to do it. Grad. Students have been targets and many have left.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @WendyLBelcher and
B/c their departments, institutions, etc. could not do things necessary to protect them from the public onslaught. So the public assignments or public writing thing, it's a choice. I find it problematic that it is in a grad. class w/out the necessary resources, check-ins, etc.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @WendyLBelcher and
to ask the question, is my department, grad. division, institution prepared to deal with what might happen if this student is a target for a public piece coming out of this class. If the instructor cannot answer that, why is it an assignment?
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @WendyLBelcher and
Are you students ready to deal with this: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/neo-nazi-swatters-target-dozens-of-journalists/?fbclid=IwAR3VM1ckUoACcZvgBs885p0YGA_R3PHKAuRGtWqrGJf7ImLi4TOSoZCLY-g …
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @WendyLBelcher and
Do they even know what the online footprint is like and have they started any of these things: http://femtechnet.org/csov/survivor/
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @WendyLBelcher and
And really, does your institution have a clue and have they even read this piece from
@JessieNYC https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/06/26/why-institutions-should-shield-academics-who-are-being-attacked-conservative-groups …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @dorothyk98 @WendyLBelcher and
You have tagged a bunch of faculty who have institutional cover. What kind of security do the students have? So far the narratives I have seen from grad. students have been horrific b/c they had no resources, back-up, anything.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @WendyLBelcher and
Maybe
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Replying to @digiwonk @dorothyk98 and
Yep. The consequences of public facing scholarship are horrifying and there are little to no resources to help anyone let alone students dealing with targeted harassment. At the same time I don't want to do non-public scholarship. I'm actually working on creating these resources.
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But this is the thing, it's a choice and people must be aware of the pitfalls and what that means. Also there are different kinds of public, are we discussing community scholarship or just mainstream media scholarship. There is a spectrum.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @digiwonk and
Yep. I think sadly also the risk for a het white dude is substantially lower which is monumentally unfair. I almost tanked my life doing an NBC news interview. I was very lucky it only lasted a few months. Even knowing the risks in theory I had no clue just how bad it could get.
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Replying to @emmahvossen @dorothyk98 and
It seems to me that this thread is an article that @KariRHensley could assign. "Why You Shouldn't Teach Your Students How to Write Public-Facing Scholarship"
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