It is not enough just to disconnect

overlap between the domains of social interaction and profit.

it is not connection itself that is the problem. It is what comes with connection, in particular its infrastructure of surveillance

Less good perhaps, every site would, in principle, be monitorable from every other and would be so monitored by institutions with the appropriate infrastructure.

The devaluation of social media and audience engagement roles has a serious impact — on the employees who do the jobs, on team and company dynamics, and on the success and potential of the company. Devaluation means employees in this role don’t get the resources they need — particularly company money — to experiment and test new technologies that could actually bring the company’s social and digital presence to new heights. It means that the employees’ authority as experts in how the digital world interacts isn’t taken seriously by other parts of the company, and is often ignored… so that decisions are made without the interests of marketing and amplifying content as best as it possibly could be. That, in turn, affects the company’s brand recognition, the company’s social and digital foothold and credibility online, and the company’s success.

Social media jobs may not involve coding. They may not involve debugging. They may not involve writing a novel or reporting. But they’re still analytical as fuck, with a measure of art in there.

The role has a hell of a lot of business value. Specifically in media, the more traffic content receives, the better you can attract sponsors.

If having a social media job was ridiculous, wasn’t it even more ridiculous that companies offered internships for it?

he was taken “from a family I’ll never know”

The only people we see ordering the stormtroopers (who are all named with dehumanising numbers) throughout the Force Awakens are white officers.

Consider that the first human forms we see in The Force Awakens are those of the stormtroopers, who are moved in tightly packed ships and dispatched to commit genocide against a noncompliant population.

But if all the stormtroopers are black, the Force Awakens can be read as a tale specifically rooted in black oppression and, more importantly, black awakening and rebellion; indeed, it could be read as the first science fiction film of the Black Lives Matter era.

what if under every white stormtrooper’s armour was a black human?

it forced me to decide what matters.

explaining what was “wrong” with the student’s work.

justifying that number.

For students, it’s all or nothing. No skipping the directions and no sliding by on partial credit for sloppy, last-minute work.

very carefully, clearly and thoroughly.

Or the specs may be more complex: for instance, the work fulfills the criteria you set out for a good literature review, research proposal or substantial reflection.

Our grading system is broken, yet we educators keep using it

they challenge our grading decisions in the hope of squeezing more points out of us -- despite the agonizing care and attention to detail we give to their work. For students, it’s all about maximizing partial credit.

we struggle to be fair in giving the same number of points

Your degree?

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