Paper vs. Screen
Wired provides a great round-up of some research comparing screen to paper. Perhaps most surprising – it may be less about the distractions we are exposed to on screen, and more about how a medium lets us know where we are in that text, and how that text is...
The Power of Patience : Teaching students the value of deceleration and immersive attention
Creating opportunities for students to experience slowly allows them to question their assumptions about vision, and to consider that access doesn’t equal learning. Image by krossbow, used under Creative Commons license.
Modern Language Association Urges Evaluators to Give Full Credit for Digital Work
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/modern-language-association-urges-evaluators-to-give-full-regard-to-digital-work/36200MLA Urges Evaluators to 'Give Full Regard' to Digital Work – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher EducationImpromptu...Book
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
"Weber's study undertakes a much-needed comprehensive investigation of the contemporary 'regime of gender violence,' that is, the key role violence has played in defining the position of Muslims in the German public sphere (in the larger European context). Through nuanced theorizing as well as careful historical contextualization, Weber develops an intersectional framework for analyzing gendered violence in a way that does not reinforce racialized discourses of cultural and/or religious difference." [more...]
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-00708-7, ISBN10: 1-137-00708-7
252 pages.