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Links & Contents One Liked 225

Hi all,

Long week, but lots to read for you lot over the weekend ;)!

Development news: US peacekeeping cuts; celebrities helping Somalia; celebrities (different ones…) romanticizing poverty; localizing assist inwards Syria; gilt mine misery inwards Liberia; India’s suicides; where did the HONY coin larn into Pakistan? ICT4D inwards Nepal; teachers, refugees together with mobile phones; talking dorsum to Gates.

Our digital lives: Karen Attiah together with diversity; romanticizing the gig economy.

Publications: Besieged universities inwards Egypt, assist information graveyards (and how to avoid them…). 

Academia: Time-sucking labor applications; breaking the shackles of medical magazine publishing.

Enjoy!

New from aidnography
Academic conferences every bit neoliberal commodities (book review)
Nicolson’s mass is a brusque novel mass that addresses ane of the favorite academic products researchers honey to hate.
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As academic conferences remove hold both been an aspect of my interrogation together with my blogging, I desire to convey this chance to add together a few aspects from my ethnographic together with media together with communication background.
Development news
blog posts most evolution graduate studies together with the role of criticism together with I remove hold been next her cracking writing since!

The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death
A Fiverr press release most “In Doers We Trust” states, “The get positions Fiverr to seize today’s emerging zeitgeist of entrepreneurial flexibility, rapid experimentation, together with doing to a greater extent than amongst less. It pushes against bureaucratic overthinking, analysis-paralysis, together with excessive whiteboarding.” This is the jargon through which the essentially cannibalistic nature of the gig economic scheme is dressed upward every bit an aesthetic. No ane wants to consume java for tiffin or locomote on a bender of slumber deprivation—or response a telephone telephone from a customer spell having sex, every bit recommended inwards the video. It’s a stretch to experience cheerful at all most the Fiverr marketplace, perusing the thousands of listings of people who volition tape whatever song, brand whatever happy-birthday video, or pattern whatever mass encompass for 5 dollars. I’d gauge that enough of the people who advertise services on Fiverr would convey some “whiteboarding” inwards central for employer-sponsored wellness insurance.
Jia Tolentino for the New Yorker amongst soundless some other reminder most the detrimental side effects of the gig economic scheme together with platform capitalism.

Hot off the digital press
Besieged Universities: on educatee rights inwards Egyptian world universities post service 2013
The study titled “Besieged Universities: H5N1 Report on the Rights together with Freedoms of Students inwards Egyptian Universities from the Academic Years 2013-2014 to 2015-2016”, documents together with analyses cases of violations that pertain to students’ correct to assembly, organisation, didactics together with liberty of expression. We were able to monitor legislative together with safety violations committed yesteryear the Egyptian state, every bit good every bit administrative violations committed yesteryear academy administrations inwards the cast of disciplinary sanctions against students.
Additionally, the study analyses the result such violations had together with continues to remove hold on the Egyptian educatee movement.
New study from The Association for Freedom of Thought together with Expression, AFTE, jointly published amongst the Norwegian Students’ together with Academics’ International Assistance Fund, SAIH (the expert people from the Rusty Radiator award...).

Avoiding Data Graveyards: Insights from Data Producers & Users inwards Three Countries
Using a theory of change, nosotros seat nine barriers to the usage of information together with corresponding operating principles for funders together with producers to brand demand-driven investments inwards the side yesteryear side generation of evolution information together with statistics.
Samantha Custer together with Tanya Sethi for AidData amongst a novel report.

Academia
Time-sucking academic labor applications don't know enormity of what they ask
These requests are straightaway non exactly business office of tenure-track labor ads, but applications for visiting assistant professorships, postdoctoral fellowships, together with (gasp) sessional positions. When search committees inquire for to a greater extent than documents -- for to a greater extent than time-consuming, carefully constructed, well-proofread expressions of one's commitment to the academy -- they are asking for to a greater extent than unpaid, unseen academic labour that soundless ane time again falls to a greater extent than heavily on those already bearing the burden of disability, responsibleness together with precarity.
Alana Cattapan for The Rabble. The slice is written from the perspective of contingent faculty who remove hold to set inwards a lot of free/unpaid fourth dimension to employ for positions. But applying for whatever academic 'thing' (job, fellowship, grant,...) is time-consuming together with tiresome. It commonly starts amongst the fact that no ane accepts a CV, but alone their ain forms.
I likewise wonder what the usage is to inquire 100+ applicants to submit syllabi correct away-do committees only usage this every bit a inexpensive chance to root textile for their ain syllabi? Do they fifty-fifty read them? Why non inquire short-listed candidates alone for a total application (my gauge inwards North America: Overly bureaucratic HR is afraid of lawsuits...)? Especially for teaching "gigs", you lot belike alone demand a CV together with a expert Skype telephone telephone to figure out whether a candidate tin learn the course...

The shackles of scientific journals
Finally, scientific discipline needs to halt relying together with thus much on magazine publication every bit the alone recognised credential for researchers together with the alone path to career progression. Tools be that study how oftentimes a preprint has been viewed, for example, or whether a clinical information laid has been cited inwards guidelines for doctors. H5N1 handful of firms are using artificial intelligence to assess the scientific importance of research, irrespective of how it has been disseminated. Such approaches demand encouragement. Journals may lose out, but scientific discipline itself volition benefit.
The Economist discusses changes inwards (medical) magazine publishing together with argues for an cease of the magazine touching on share fetishism.

In other news, Elsevier desperately tries to defend its work organisation follow...explore the #acrl2017 hashtag for to a greater extent than give-and-take unopen to opened upward access publishing

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