CUNY Academic Commons | Sean Patrick Palmer | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/seanpalmer/activity/ Activity feed for Sean Patrick Palmer. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 1787d33f611d7667f84ce4b26d8e8e02 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1268 Fri, 19 May 2023 19:35:00 -0400 The thought process behind my project — from SeanOne quick note: I could keep tinkering with this project, so I am stopping here. If/when I revisit it, I’m sure I will continue. […]

]]> f2c953b580865c6074d2157a1144f000 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Care and Institutions -- from Sean, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/care-and-institutions-from-sean/#comment-185 Wed, 03 May 2023 16:39:03 -0400 The video showed people doing important work. Work that can change lives for the better, but I have to admit that there was a part of me that thought. “Well, it’s too late for the people that have been hurt.” […]

]]> ac37c2324ef518a9411a9aae7ad42f3b Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1231 Tue, 02 May 2023 18:10:26 -0400 Care and Institutions — from SeanI am not a fan of the forest metaphor. Partially because I’ve spent time in forests and did not enjoy it at all and partially because i […]

]]> cee0b7bf896ccaae95dca6a6d0aaaa14 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Some thoughts from Sean, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/some-thoughts-from-sean/#comment-167 Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:18:02 -0400 First off, I am so sorry that happened to you, Diana. That is terrible. At CUNY, have I felt affirmation? That’s kind of complicated. For the work I do, sure. People have told me that I do interesting […]

]]> d703ecbe046e56a5db2e10cbb48a81aa Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1210 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:08:47 -0400 Some thoughts from SeanSome thoughts after doing the readings: The Bisam piece reminded me of my first trip to grad school, when I was getting my degree in […]

]]> 1a095186b8c2cfcc6cb19aa9ff4c0e71 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1171 Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:15:46 -0400 Be careful with empathy.by Sean I am not an empathic person, at least in the way it’s defined in the readings, but I’m fine with that. I think the people sup […]

]]> 27a466545d5539901b471215f8c876c6 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, A Case of Self-Censorship, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/a-case-of-self-censorship/#comment-132 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:23:37 -0400 My supervisor doesn;t see all my lessons. I told my previous supervisoer what I was doing in case students complained to him or my dept chair so he wouldn’t be blindsided. If he knew about it, he could be […]

]]> 7603ca5afa8563007b7f04fe83c6f44f Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1143 Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:54:37 -0400 A Case of Self-Censorshipby Sean (Swear words ahoy!) We have to watch what we say in a professional environment, but how much we have to censor […]

]]> d2b196388b68d661a3725d8c761dcfad Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1134 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 23:23:39 -0400 Disclaimer: I’m posting this on the course blog of the other course I’m taking.

On Thursday, the college president’s office sent out a mass email apologizing for “the misrepresentation of our students on the […]

]]> 36918d4f6fa2533b9506a48979b70cdc Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1127 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:13:05 -0400 A bonus post from Sean

On Tuesday, I brought up that a Digital Humanities class wouldn’t happen at LaGuardia. I think I should explain why in some detail. 

We don’t have that many people interested in it, […]

]]> 954564458f26b204fa371194049fd364 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Midterm project, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/midterm-project/#comment-104 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:53:48 -0400 The more I think about it, the more doing it through the TLC makes sense. The TLC does more hands on stuff, after all.

It’s just… there are times in the pedagogy courses when I Think “These ideas would not […]

]]> 8ebdbca70d011416e6a2b9a7dec10210 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1115 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:51:50 -0400 by Sean

I’m considering writing up a course proposal for a teaching practicum course for grad students in the Humanities and, maybe, the Social Sciences. My expertise doesn’t really extend much beyond tho […]

]]> 79ffa9e97242e01bc1b0c17195a98f76 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1076 Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:46:29 -0400 by Sean

Question one: Explain centum and satem in Indo-European linguistics

Response: In Indo-European linguistics, “centum” and “satem” refer to two major branches of the Indo-European languages, based on […]

]]> e0d895611445dad59d4f523bf1895fd5 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1061 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:20:46 -0400 by Sean

Publishers have been providing online platforms with their textbooks for a while now. I’ll be honest: I’ve never really been impressed. Granted, I usually teach classes like Voice and Diction, cla […]

]]> b7b89f4c1411cc256138c7be81f7048a Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Week 5: Precarity, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-5-precarity/#comment-69 Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:50:02 -0500 This is interesting because I look at precarity in more financial terms.

I was raised in a single-parent household in the Pittsburgh area when the steel industry collapsed. Entire communities lost their way of […]

]]> 6bf964aee8411e6a3b388ee5338488de Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Bonus post from Sean, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/bonus-post-from-sean/#comment-68 Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:43:48 -0500 Thank you, Aruanna.

Part of why I share my experiences is that I felt so isolated when I was going through the tenure process. No one in my department had a position as tech oriented as mine, and all the things […]

]]> eab422cc3297c5febe51125cf284fe04 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1033 Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:56:38 -0500 I just thought of an issue concerning DH and mentoring today while preparing for meeting with a new adjunct who hasn’t used Blackboard before.

My job has several different duties, and DH is only one part of […]

]]> 991f6e765a00c94f21a5c6b75bb3b2c0 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Week 5, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-5/#comment-60 Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:17:35 -0500 I never had a mentor. I was just shoved into my position and left to sink or swim. I had no real support, and, since I was in a brand new position, the job duties were at best ill-defined. Now, in terms of the […]

]]> 4496ad66bcec9376a7081ec81f244a58 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1031 Sun, 05 Mar 2023 21:39:03 -0500 — Sean

I do not really know what institutional support feels like. Institutional indifference? Absolutely. But support? Not at all. 

Even when I was hired, many of the people in the Communication […]

]]> 7e3f5d54f013e8e0323a63ad7f0850af Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Adventures (?) in Academia -- Sean, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/adventures-in-academia-sean/#comment-58 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:00:20 -0500 At LaGuardia, every year. the college produces a strategic plan. and our department does, too.

Look at it and plan accordingly. Be aware of what’s going on.

]]> 83dc16f1fac6028d622c84379ddacbf7 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Rethinking, redesigning, re..., on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/rethinking-redesigning-re/#comment-49 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:04:35 -0500 This line: :he flawed notion that technology is inconsequential” rang out as true to me.

I have been dealing with this notion since I arrived at LaGuardia. Most of the people in my area do not think that it’s […]

]]> 516dc01df54444e4b7ff0dd7d98b60b5 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Week 4 -, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-4-3/#comment-48 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:54:38 -0500 I agree with you last point. that we will see more declarations of autonomy and/or liberation, but from what I’ve seen of them, they’re either announcing a new not necessarily better power structure or just […]

]]> b572106272227e0eb9d61585c8d500e5 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Adventures (?) in Academia -- Sean, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/adventures-in-academia-sean/#comment-47 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:49:19 -0500 Whenever they give you a choice. make a choice. Do not say “I don’t care” or “You decide” because that will lead the powers that be to believe that they can just give you whatever assignment they choose. You will […]

]]> 44ffa5f8ca1b170fc6c3291e85d596e6 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Week 4, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-4-2/#comment-46 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:35:12 -0500 For the tenth anniversary of the establishment of our major. we had a guest speaker come in. He was from Cameroon, and pointed out that most of the emojis that have been created were for people in the West, and […]

]]> bd24d25e3630eba97f5cf57417534269 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Week 4 - Power Maintaining/Sharing in the Institution, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-4-power-maintaining-sharing-in-the-institution/#comment-45 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:15:35 -0500 Power sharing also has to have an institutional buy in for it to work. Even if you get your colleagues or your dept chair on board, the administration could say “No”, an d then your options become more limited. […]

]]> 7ec343ebbe7468dac9b647ffb5105615 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=996 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:53:37 -0500 For class on Tuesday, I selected several forms from LaGuardia: yearly evaluation, class observation, and curriculum. I have experience with all of these things, so allow me to share a few personal […]

]]> ac786cb91c65fa3a4832ebd8389514d9 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, So... you say you have concerns about the budget..., on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/so-you-say-you-have-concerns-about-the-budget/#comment-33 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:51:14 -0500 I was told that CUNY spent $500 million on CUNYFirst, but I do not know how true that it. And, in theory, the idea that we should have one management software across CUNY makes sense. I mean, that’s the only part […]

]]> b75b8240592e58ddff84e9827a9fed7e Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Week 3 - Power & Institutions, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-3-power-institutions/#comment-20 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:38:43 -0500 Another complication at CUNY is where the funding comes from.

Those who work at the four year school are state employees, and much of the funding for them comes from Albany.

Those of us who work at the two […]

]]> 73e3175d71ef6ff6ae6c270880021fbe Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Week 3, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-3/#comment-19 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:31:46 -0500 I did my first master’s at the University of Illinois, and I have friends who have done graduate work at various universities across the country, and one thing they all have in common is that grad students are […]

]]> ca4e423dd1fb47a7d9419ee268355234 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=967 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:23:36 -0500 by Sean

I felt like I could follow the big picture in CUNY’s financial statement, but got lost in the weeds in the details. I mean, I already knew CUNY was having financial difficulties, but seeing it l […]

]]> 597652c18f54682f0aba3799f12611c9 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Week 2: Syllabus Feedback - Content Suggestion, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-2-syllabus-feedback-content-suggestion/#comment-15 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:05:21 -0500 There is also frequently an adversarial relationship between administration and those on the tenure track.

For instance, when I started at LaGuardia, full time instructors had a 5/4 teaching schedule, and […]

]]> 20e74f3c0cc9152cee26515426f63265 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Trust and Privacy, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/trust-and-privacy/#comment-13 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:30:35 -0500 I agree with your analysis of Academia dot edu.

I also think that the institutions we work for prefer the paid models. Look at publishing. I know of people who have published in more open/free publications and […]

]]> e7e9939ac7be3c50c9c7e484c8d7cbcc Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Institutional Power and the syllabus, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/920-2/#comment-12 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:22:37 -0500 It is interesting to see how our associations with institutions matter.

I have presented at a lot of conferences, and, on a number of occasions, people have come up to me to discuss how LaGuardia is doing all […]

]]> dd1ba93f816181ffc5ce5b9991bbe1f7 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=920 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 03:10:25 -0500 by Sean Palmer

My one suggestion for the syllabus is that the power dynamic between institutions and the person needs more than one week. 

The difficulty is that that relationship is awfully […]

]]> 8327cc20713c76e1c03ab8ec15df515b Sean Patrick Palmer joined the group Teaching and Learning Center https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/824550/ Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:44:12 -0500 e683e507aa7657044f5312989ec5fd2f Sean Patrick Palmer joined the group DARC (Digital Archive Research Collective) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/787102/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:55:27 -0400 850bfbf6d200b8b2cb6242f6e040763f Sean Patrick Palmer joined the group GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/787099/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:54:31 -0400 e49f984e46111a8659d1782ef9bcf391 Sean Patrick Palmer joined the group CUNY Manifold Users https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/735551/ Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:58:36 -0500 88cfaa78897ff697fdd8cbcb5b6e5fe8 Sean Patrick Palmer joined the group Sound Studies and Methods Working Group #GCDISound https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/721059/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:33:33 -0500 abedcd1421a906bd8a3bf25756ed6511 Sean Patrick Palmer joined the group CUNY Distance Learning Archive https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/660790/ Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:48:28 -0400 0a988cca6d3336d217ee642c6445f393 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=267 Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:58:26 -0500 school pleasure reading comparison

As I said in class, I noticed a few things.

1) I should have included more kinds of readings, at least work reading, and quite possibly news reading (which I lumped into […]

]]> 66b02f198d23fe58ca7bd73067089282 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=215 Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:39:33 -0500 Over the holiday weekend, news that Facebook had hired a PR firm to “make claims” about George Soros dropped.

FB went after Soros because he has ties to the Freedom from Facebook Foundation, which is trying to […]

]]> e6701269a5c629fecdf13ef1ba6ef1bc Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=210 Sun, 25 Nov 2018 02:13:05 -0500 The Tumblr app has been removed from the Apple store

We have been focusing on Facebook, Amazon, and other entities, but we really haven’t discussed Tumblr.

Tumblr is a microblogging site. Many people use it […]

]]> 9cc220c55229bc625f8bd1a26b25086d Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=208 Thu, 22 Nov 2018 01:02:31 -0500 Farivar’s Habeas Data is an interesting read that discusses what happens at the intersection of technology, government, and privacy.

Perhaps the most salient point for me is that the law is just simply not […]

]]> adb029937ed73fe1f8b26015cdfa2dc1 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=193 Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:16:50 -0500 Facebook has it rough lately, and this article describes how the powers that be there have been reacting.

]]> 3b4339afe1f4b359c78d733101a9af31 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=140 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 23:11:56 -0400 Some men are learning that their children aren’t necessarily their biological children.

 

]]> 538e85f6e818c5b19d10083e775a50c2 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=137 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:35:53 -0400 Cold cases solved via online DNA profiles.

We talked about this sort of thing earlier in the term, though, perhaps, not in this way.

In just a few years, the DNA every white person whose family is from […]

]]> 8c9c191633a3f1b769d9aad5217e52a3 Sean Patrick Palmer commented on the post, Amazon's Sexist AI and Alexa Offering Therapy?, on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/10/10/amazons-sexist-ai-and-alexa-offering-therapy/#comment-19 Wed, 10 Oct 2018 23:02:24 -0400 I have to admit that if I had an Alexa and it started doing those things, I would stop using it.

That’s just going too far for me.

]]> 1ce2da8199d1f8995309e83031aa9611 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=105 Wed, 10 Oct 2018 23:01:14 -0400 Apparently it’s not a thing in the Big Data universe. Everything from how data is collected, to who sees it, to how it is processed and analyzed

As O’Neil points out in Weapons of Math Destruction, this is just […]

]]> 8ac2f749085ac8957e4d1dac25515d82 Sean Patrick Palmer wrote a new post on the site Data, Place, and Society https://data74000.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=97 Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:13:23 -0400 The Government Is Blacklisting People Based on Predictions of Future Crimes

We were talking about this sort of thing last week, The government is putting people on the No Fly List based on things people might […]

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