Okay so I'm probably dreaming in technicolour, but I just finished putting together and submitting a paper submission to the American Sociological Association's 2006 conference, Great Divide. I sent in a paper called "Rapping Adorno" that uses German-Turkish youth rappers to gainsay the seeming stifling totality of Adorno's negative stance towards mass culture and popular culture.
It felt odd though to see no institution after my name on my submission. As of May, I'll be in a rather liminal state academically. I'll no longer be a student at Concordia but will not yet be a student at whatever grad school accepts me and me them.
I know that I probably haven't a hope in Hades of getting accepted -- I've heard it said that the rejection rate for this conference is somewhere around 80%?!? But I couldn't resist - the conference will be in Montreal, after all. Funnily enough, though, I may not be by then - I hope to be in Toronto, Burnaby, Amherst (MA), or Atlanta.
If it doesn't (when it doesn't?) get accepted, I'll start working on submitting it to a few journals, though at this point, I have no ideas which ones.
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Digital culture, power, academia, social theory... blended up with bits of the everyday and the ordinary, examined.
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- Kingston - Queens University - Sociology
- Montreal - McGill University - Communications
- Ottawa - Carleton University - Communications
- Ottawa - Carleton University - Comparative Studies
- Ottawa - Carleton University - Sociology
- Toronto - Ryerson University - Communications & Culture
- Toronto - University of Toronto - Information Studies
Listening
- Swing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams
- Back in Town - Matt Dusk
- Elements of Life - Tiesto
- Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails
- Nothing Left to Lose - Mat Kearney
- Stranger Birds - David Usher
- Not Too Late - Norah Jones
- Billy Talent II - Billy Talent
- Live at Mr. Stubbs - Jason Mraz
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- Reacting to the Feminine Mystique
- Critiquing an introduction
- Memories of farming
- Downsizing
- First conservatives, then what?
- Page out of the Odd
- Paradox of undergraduate education
- New addition to my family
- Book about film and myth
- CFP risk
- Gendering online activity
- Urge to converge
- Politics of the art prize
- Google PC?
- Science without proof
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About this blog...
Tamara Paradis [aka "Sashay"]
...a late-30s retired IT analyst turned digital culture researcher and sociologist. Once a resident of Montreal, she has now settled into a house near downtown Toronto with her dog Sandy and two great housemates, who've got her watching a lot of TV. She's doing a joint MA at York University & Ryerson University. She hopes to find the perfect digital culture PhD program and, eventually, write the great Canadian novel. In the meantime, she plays with Sandy in the park, wanders around Second Life looking lost, reads a lot of philosophy and digital theory and concots experimental dishes in her beloved slow cooker. And this?...
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1 comment:
Yey, miss Sashay, don't beat yourself up in advance! Instead, focus on the good parts of your paper (which by my knowledge should include everything from top of the first page down to the bottom of the last, with references!)So, don't worry - be happy, in spite of the workload, and apply for that thing in Copenhagen or Helsinki!
And ps: fingers crossed for your paper! You'll work this one out, I'm sure :)
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