Round Table Public Health: Resisting or Expanding Criminalizaton?
How should we respond to drug users – with jail or treatment? Is a public health approach to drug use a way to resist criminalization? Or, does public health just replicate control in new forms? These...
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If you’ve read the news lately, you might think the ‘war on drugs’ is coming to an end. Just last week, Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie showed his support for a bill that would allow people who...
View ArticleOpen Access and Ethnography
Wendy Hsu, Scholar of Sound I started a blog when I began my dissertation research in 2007. YellowBuzz was meant to share my field notes from observing and participating in the indie rock music scenes...
View ArticleOpen Access Basics Explained
Sometimes when I speak to my academic colleagues about “open access” publishing, they often think I’m suggesting we eliminate peer-review. That’s a common misconception, but it’s not true. And, it...
View ArticleOpen Access: What Is It and Why All the Fuss?
(Déjà vu? This is a very slight reworking of a post from the Graduate Center Library blog.) Image is CC BY-NC-ND from JISC. You might have noticed that CUNY librarians talk a lot about open access —...
View ArticleHigher Ed Is Changing, but Digital Media Training is Still Missing for Most
Higher education is changing because of digital media technologies. How we do our work as scholars, how we create knowledge, is changing because of digital media. And, increasingly, academics want to...
View ArticleDigital Sociology
Digital sociology as a field is gaining traction in Australia, Canada and the UK, and is lagging somewhat behind in the U.S. Still there are some strides toward establishing this field here in the U.S....
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