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“Consuming Catastrophe is a must read for emergency managers and those interested in the disaster space. Recuber provides insight into the connectivity between media and disaster which is a topic that anyone working in the emergency management space should better understand, especially in today’s environment where phenomena such as ‘fake news’ are drivers in how…
The book got a great review in Inside Higher Ed on December 14. Here’s an excerpt: Recuber quotes Adam Smith on what is involved in a sympathetic response to others’ misfortune: “The compassion of the spectator must arise altogether from the consideration of what he himself would feel if he was reduced to the same…
and I’ve got a chapter in it called “Digital Discourse Analysis: Finding Meaning in Small Online Spaces.” I’m really excited about this collection of essays and think it will be very useful not only for sociologists but anyone studying digital media. Check it out: https://policypress.co.uk/digital-sociologies
Here is the Temple University Press page and here’s the Amazon page. So grateful to everyone who helped make this book happen! In the coming months I’ll be giving talks and promoting it–I’ll keep you posted.
deals with some of the big ideas that will be in the book, Consuming Catastrophe, but uses them to consider the horrific mass shooting in Orlando: What Becomes of Empathy?
Just got the cover art for my book (forthcoming in Fall 2016)
The new issue of Research Ethics has got my article, “From Obedience to Contagion: Discourses of Power in Milgram, Zimbardo, and the Facebook Experiment,” as well as a bunch of other good ones. Have a look. I also have a piece coming out soon in College Teaching with Maria Medvedeva. Its about teaching critical thinking…
And it was a busy one–presented at Media Sociology pre-conference on Friday, then presented a paper about a technique for teaching sociological writing with my colleague Maria on Sunday, then the newly renamed CITAMS section stuff on Monday morning. All of that sandwiched between lengthy flight delays into and out of the windy city. But…
Theorizing the Web is such a great conference–good crowds, interesting people in attendance & presenting, fun atmosphere, and really smart work on display. And as it turns out a WaPo blogger attended my talk, and mentioned it in a piece about #Kony2012 and hashtag activism. Incidentally, I don’t actually think that what I’ve called “infoguilt”…
I’ll be presenting again at Theorizing the Web this April 17th & 18th in NYC. And I’ve also just learned that my article called “From Obedience to Contagion: Discourses of Power in Milgram, Zimbardo, and the Facebook Experiment” has been accepted into a special issue of the journal Research Ethics devoted to the infamous Facebook…
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