“Divija Bhasin Blocked Me?!” : Introduction and What is Theory? Research? Academia?

Okay so Anshita got blocked. By an influencer. For citing extra readings.

In our debut episode, we use one very petty moment as a launchpad into some big questions: What is knowledge? How does it come to exist? What counts as research? And who decided a degree makes you the authority on human behavior; because Instagram certainly has thoughts.

Welcome to the first episode of Ctrl+Society, where we connect the dots between your For You Page and the assigned readings nobody actually did.

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Assigned Readings:

Duffy, B. E. (2015). The romance of work: Gender and aspirational labour in the digital culture industries. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19(4), 441–457. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877915572186

Gershon, I. (2016). "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man": Typing the neoliberal self into a branded existence. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6(3), 223–246. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau6.3.017

Murray, R. C. (1980). Review of The credential society: An historical sociology of education and stratification, by R. Collins. American Journal of Education, 88(4), 488–495. https://doi.org/10.1086/443519

Nisbet, M. C., & Scheufele, D. A. (2009). What's next for science communication? Promising directions and lingering distractions. American Journal of Botany, 96(10), 1767–1778. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0900041

Skea, C. (2021). Emerging neoliberal academic identities: Looking beyond Homo economicus. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 40, 399–414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-021-09768-7

Tsemberis, S. (1999). From streets to homes: An innovative approach to supported housing for homeless adults with psychiatric disabilities. Journal of community psychology, 27(2), 225-241. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1520-6629(199903)27:2%3C225::AID-JCOP9%3E3.0.CO;2-Y

Wasike, B. (2022). When the influencer says jump! How influencer signaling affects engagement with COVID-19 misinformation. Social Science & Medicine, 315, 115497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115497

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