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CFP: Weblogs and the Academy, Kalamazoo 2009

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 03:02pm on 28/08/2008 under ,
CFP: Weblogs and the Academy: The Scope of the Professional and Boundaries of the Personal in Open, Pseudo-Anonymous, and Anonymous Blogging
International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7-10, 2009

Elisabeth Carnell and I are organizing next year's installation of the "Weblogs and the Academy" series for Kalamazo in 2009. Would you be interested in giving a paper on personal/professional boundaries; the Tribble effect; open, pseudo-anonymous, and anonymous academic blogging; or any other related topic as it relates, in some way, to Medieval Studies?

Last year's session ended with a passionate discussion on this very subject, far more material than could be fit into question time, so it's high time that it had a session of its own. Contact me about it, or the official pointwoman, Elisabeth. Her details are listed on the last page of the official K'zoo CFP. (PDF)

All paper abstracts must be received no later than September 15th, along with cover pages detailing contact information and equipment requirements.
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posted by [identity profile] steer.livejournal.com at 02:19pm on 28/08/2008
What on earth is the Tribble effect? We all get small fat, furry and our legs fall off if we blog too much?
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 02:29pm on 28/08/2008
It's the way blogs multiply when you're not looking and...

Ivan Tribble is the pseudonym of someone who wrote two strongly anti-blog editorials in the Chronicle for Higher Education.
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2005/07/2005070801c.htm
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2005/09/2005090201c.htm

He argued, in short, that anyone who keeps a blog should not be hired for an academic post. There will always be better candidates than bloggers.

So it's a shorthand for "not keeping a blog for fear of someday not being hired" or "not keeping a blog which could possibly be identified with the real identity of its author for fear of someday not being hired".
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posted by [identity profile] steer.livejournal.com at 03:34pm on 28/08/2008
Actually, I have my less than professional website and my LJ under my own name and easily identifiable as a sort of opposite filtering. It is a first approximation way to filter out those employers I would not want to work for.
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posted by [identity profile] strange-complex.livejournal.com at 02:30pm on 28/08/2008
Hee - I just Googled the term to find out, and this page is already the number five hit for the phrase. Fast work! :-)
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 02:39pm on 28/08/2008
Google's fast! I looked before answering in case someone had written it up concisely already. It's a term I've been used sporadically for a while, but possibly not in easily searched locations (like locked posts).


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posted by [identity profile] steer.livejournal.com at 03:35pm on 28/08/2008
Heh... indeed.

Actually, there is an option on livejournal which automatically updates various sites when a public entry is made on your journal -- I suspect google is one.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 03:55pm on 28/08/2008
Yes, I have ping weblogs.com enabled.
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posted by [identity profile] ex-humanfema327.livejournal.com at 04:31pm on 28/08/2008
hello, i sent you an email, with the day wrong, it should be saturday, did you get it?
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 04:37pm on 28/08/2008
Yes! I received it and was waiting to hear the latest on when C. is working to reply. But I'll reply anyways!
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posted by [identity profile] ex-humanfema327.livejournal.com at 04:42pm on 28/08/2008
no dont worry! i just got the email off your facebook so i didnt konw if it wasright or not. but then why would it not be. i dont know, i'm going home. well, not home. away from work.
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posted by [identity profile] swisstone.livejournal.com at 04:34pm on 28/08/2008
Looks interesting, and the sort of thing I have some experience in, but my chances of being in K'zoo in May are zilch, I'm afraid.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 04:38pm on 28/08/2008
If we found one more person, I'd be willing to contribute a paper too, and we could do something at the Medieval Congress at Leeds in July next year. If you were really interested, that is.
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 04:45pm on 28/08/2008
I sent an e-mail via the networking site.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 04:49pm on 28/08/2008
So that's what we're calling it now!

(Thank you for offering! I'll write back as soon as I'm done with this batch of grading.)
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posted by [identity profile] doctorvirago.livejournal.com at 03:03pm on 31/08/2008
Do you still have room on the panel? I'd like to talk about why I mix the personal and professional and how that relates in a way to the survival of medieval studies. I was thinking about blogging it, but I could save it for the conference.

And I don't mind "outing" myself.

I'll write something more concrete and send it along via official cover sheet and abstract if it's not too late.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 04:21pm on 31/08/2008
Please do! We'd be delighted to have you! We only have one definite at this point, so you'd make two. Note that they're papers, not a roundtable (and thus fills your one-paper-per-person quota for K'zoo), but we're happy to have them be shorter papers and leave lots of time for discussion.
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posted by [identity profile] doctorvirago.livejournal.com at 04:55pm on 31/08/2008
Note that they're papers, not a roundtable (and thus fills your one-paper-per-person quota for K'zoo)

Not a problem, since I wasn't planning on submitting anything else, since my current projects are either over-presented or else now past that stage.
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posted by [identity profile] juniperus.livejournal.com at 02:54am on 03/09/2008
ancarett has expressed interest!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 09:00am on 03/09/2008
Hurray! We have a session!
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