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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate studying Rhetoric at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. He lives in downtown Los Angeles.
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Academia Archive
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Tuesday Random Anger – Self-Congratulatory Nonsense In The Academy Edition
IHE has an article suggesting that we can improve goverment deliberation by modeling it on university and departmental meetings: Civilized political behavior needs to be learned. And that’s where universities come in, Mallory suggested, as nascent laboratories of democratic engagement. “I think … the fundamental principles are [a commitment] to civil discourse, and listening, and speaking. [...] -
Linguists Troubled By Conceit Of Ahistorical, Atheoretical Number Crunching
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Social Science Partisan Attacks Critic For Lack Of Social Scientific Rigor
We actually agree with a large swath of IRB bad arguments, which is what this little spat is about. But still: The idea that the “typical journalistic interview or survey” involves great questions of war and peace and commerce and culture, while the typical social-science interview or survey involves dog owners, is, I suppose, a testable [...] -
Disturbingly, Quantitative Analysis May Have Methodological Shortcomings – Medical Studies Edition
Fetishized social scientific methodologies from dissimilar fields are adapted by grant-hungry researchers and applied to unrepresentative samples of 18-21 year olds in large Midwestern universities before being coded by untrained and apathetic work studies – and you’re saying this doesn’t produce robust results? This is a preview of Disturbingly, Quantitative Analysis May Have Methodological Shortcomings – [...] -
Cog Sci Blog Roundup
We’ve got a couple posts in the hopper – a Peirce vs. Deleuze post (of all things) and a post about how scientific triumphalism empowering anti-science right and the left – but little time to clean them up right now. Plus we’re still working our way through posts going back to May – quals was [...] -
Job Call Roundup – Who Got Their Calls Into Spectra On Time? Edition
We were going to separate these calls into really obnoxious categories – “best line that no one will share any rumors about”, “best call that makes absolutely no sense”, “best offer with prospects for free catered lunches”. Then we remembered that this is not an anonymous blog and that we don’t have a job. So [...] -
Particle Physicists Do It Transparently Through The Rumor Mill (Plus: Promote NCA Open Bar Transparency!)
Jim Brown has a little blurb up over at The Blogora about a new Rhetoric and Composition Job Wiki. It’s MLA-centric instead of NCA-centric, but the idea is certainly right – give people a place to post where their schools are in the hiring process, from the initial job posting through offers/rejections until an offer [...] -
Disturbingly, Quantitative Analysis May Have Methodological Shortcomings – Blogosphere Edition
We’ve been reading some academic studies about the blogosphere and – deep breath – we think that quantitative analysis might have some problems getting at what’s really going on. The problem has to do with studies that use links to evaluate trust and communication – because, well you’ve got to count something, right? You could [...] -
Welcome to IIS
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