Sent this morning > May be of interest / Keeping it here to refer back to: CALL FOR PAPERS Focusing on wide-raging domain of rhetoric communication, the conference addresses past and present issues ranging from Aristotelian Rhetoric to cognitive-oriented linguistic approaches. It is argued that our communicative minds operate beyond cool reason by mixing up [...]
Category: PhD Life
Diversity Initiatives in UK Media
This is a quick post rounding up some of the diversity initiatives, keynote speeches and policy document links. These are 'texts' I've come across when exploring the recent changes being fought for and advocated regarding diversity, representation and changes to UK broadcasting. All of them are publicly available, but I collate them here with a [...]
Quick Note: Today’s Round Up
Today I delved deeper into the link between economy, capitalism and digital platforms considering how individuals or rather the differences between individuals are manifested upon digital platforms. I read further into Milanovic's paper on global inequality - in order to ground me in a social policy framework and vantage point. This is because I awoke [...]
Response to – B.Milanovic (2011) ‘Global Inequality: From Class to Location, from Proletarians to Migrants’
This is a short paper of twenty-one pages, so in the interest of fairness and transparency it should be noted that most papers raise more questions than they answer. So my response in large part is questioning and relating this paper to other fields of inquiry or practice, but this response is more experimental exercise [...]
Quick Note: Today’s roundup
So today's readings have taken me from reading through 2011 working paper titled 'Global Inequality: from Class to Location, from Proletarians to Migrants' by Branko Milanovic (2011). A different formatted version can be found here, there may be some discrepancies. I then moved onto looking at the question of inequality in terms of mediation, visibility, [...]
FutureLearn Course – Empire: the Controversies of British Imperialism
This morning I signed up to an 6 week online course, which starts on the 16th of January 2017. The course is run on the Future Learn platform, is completely free and entitled 'Empire: the Controversies of British Imperialism'. It should take only 3 hours a week, so I'm hoping to fit it in without [...]
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