[Petit Fours #413] On intimate surveillance, academic citizenship, and language
Hi, everyone! Here are this week’s recommendations:
#1 Whether you have an interest in surveillance technology or not, How to Watch a Baby, a comic by Kristen Radtke, is amazing.
#2 Registration is open for the third edition of the online doctoral seminar organized by our CIVIS Hub: Webinar Series of PhD Candidates: Challenges of Digital and Technological Transformations The line-up features Riyaj Shaikh from our research group who’ll talk about hope, collaboration, and opacities in earning gig income.
#3 Here’s a nice story about efforts to make good academic citizenship (collegiality, service, leadership) part of the formal promotion criteria on every step of the academic career ladder (in Swedish): Där blir akademins dolda arbetsuppgifter synliga
#4 Should a Country Speak a Single Language?, a long-form New Yorker piece by Samanth Subramanian, is a lot to take in: “Sometimes a language withers because of customs we consider normal, and even desirable: intermarriage, migration, participation in the global economy. But Devy believes that any progress incapable of giving people the means to keep their language is no progress at all.”
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