ckohtala @ckohtala@scholar.social

#introductions
hi all,
I'm a #design researcher studying community #technology activist workshops (#fablabs, makerspaces), mainly in Europe, from a Science and Technology Studies #STS perspective.

foregrounding socio-environmental #sustainability opportunities, #postcolonialism, #commons, #localism, #degrowth and #postcapitalism.

adore #photography as part of ethnographic research and all-round poetic goodness.

what an absolute pleasurable review experience! (for a journal outside of my usual reading + reviewing.) second review round just finished. (I'm Reviewer 2, of course...)
the handling editor first sets out their summary of the reviews + the key suggestions to pay attention to. then the three reviews in full. and *then* the editor-in-chief adds a further commentary with *their* suggestion emphasis. the most careful and considered review process by editors I've seen.
#scholarsocial

I am self-citing the absolute *crap* out of this book chapter I'm writing

#scholarsocial

when the journal article review request comes directly from the journal's Editor-in-Chief one feels much more compelled to accept the invitation... 👀

a writing hint for #ScholarSocial:
keep a compilation document of stuff that you edit out of article manuscripts after peer reviews. often they are seeds of thought and insights that don't fit in well with the article you end up with, but they can be used elsewhere in other pieces and/or be used to inspire further studies

#ScholarSocial #ethics
this is the same article published in two different journals the same year - collecting both sets of citations.
Higher Education Policy in 2002 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1016/S0952-8733%2802%2900006-5
and International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education https://doi.org/10.1108/14676370210434714

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article now online in #DesignStudies:
A taxonomy of users’ active design engagement in the 21st century.

we looked at typologies of active use + design-in-use in #design research, #HCI, #STS, #innovation studies, #consumption studies to see what all people do with designs + designing - altering, designing, innovating - making, hacking, prosuming. we synthesized them into a taxonomy to foster analytical richness. 3 levels of intensity beyond 'normal use' + 7 categories
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X19300845?via%3Dihub

yet another excellent review of Pinker's book, a tome of "italic fervor" :D
https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/pinkers-pollyannish-philosophy-and-its-perfidious-politics/

omg - I realize that I didn't even write my first post correctly.
the emails and in-person titles are NOT even MS Surname, they are MRS Surname.
and always in the case of professional interaction, a formal academic occasion or request when one should be doubly aware of addressing someone as Professor or Doctor.

etiquette reminder for #ScholarSocial. if you know a colleague is a professor, postdoc, etc. AND you know she has a doctorate, and you still address her as Ms. Surname in writing or f2f instead of Dr Surname, it's quite likely she will be insulted.

why do (some) researchers want to publish different types of literature reviews but then call them all kinds of things *other* than lit reviews? why not just do a lit review? they don't all need to be the 'systematic' type.

manufactured outrage on US campuses.
Jeffrey Sachs has been following campus terminations since 2014 and the role of Breitbart and other propaganda websites
https://arcdigital.media/campus-free-speech-under-threat-from-the-right-8d4a8506a056