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I am very impressed with Lee Vinsel's analysis of the issues we have been addressing and I am eager to circulate it far and wide. I do have a suggestion and a comment.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
13.5pt">First, the suggestion: since Morozov and Nasser did not give adequate citation to the works they summarized, I think it is important that we do so in writing abut these
matters. Here they are:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">* Eden Medina [MIT PhD], Informatics and Computing, Indiana University<u><br>
<a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~histweb/faculty/Display.php?Faculty_ID=69">http://www.indiana.edu/~histweb/faculty/Display.php?Faculty_ID=69</a>
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Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile</u><br>
[MIT, 2011] <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries">http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries</a>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">* Mara Mills [PhD Harvard], Media, Culture, & Communication, NYU</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">".</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">..</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">She is completing a book
(On the Phone: Deafness and Communication Engineering) on the significance of phonetics and deaf education to the emergence of "communication engineering" in early twentieth-century telephony; this concept and set of practices later gave rise to information
theory, digital coding, and cybernetics. ..."</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> <a href="http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Mara_Mills">http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Mara_Mills</a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Access her publications at
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt"><a href="http://maramills.org/publications/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">http://maramills.org/publications/</span></a><br>
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</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">Next is my comment:</span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">I was surprised/amused that Browne regards the New Yorker as "highbrow journalism." Essays have been written in the UK and US for over 75 years differentiating class-based cultural
consumption practices using the phrenological metaphors of low brow, lower-middle brow, middle brow, and upper-middle brow. See citations for many of those essays at:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlebrow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlebrow</a></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The New Yorker often has been mentioned as an exemplar of upper-middle brow culture; for an example, see William Deresiewicz, "Upper Middle Brow: The culture of the creative class,"
<u>The American Scholar</u>, 4 Nov 2012 <a href="http://theamericanscholar.org/upper-middle-brow/#.VDaufue0blU">
http://theamericanscholar.org/upper-middle-brow/#.VDaufue0blU</a> </span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">One part of his argument is that upper middle brow culture consumption practices are aspirational and such practices support upper brow cultural production. However, Morozov’s
and Nasser’s work for the <u>New Yorker </u>and the <u>Atlantic</u> could not support the consumption of Eden Medina’s and Mara Mills’ academic work because the readers have not been given the proper names for the work being summarized.</span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 11, 2014 5:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> sigcis<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] An Unresolved Issue: Evgeny Morozov, The New Yorker, and the Perils of "Highbrow Journalism"<br>
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<div>The Medina-Morozov situation continued to bother me, so I decided to write something about it. If you want me to remove reference to you or add such a reference (in cases where I write things like "One historian . . .), please let me know. Also please
let me know if I have said anything inaccurate or even if you disagree with my argument. I believe that the kinds of arguments I make in this post can be right or wrong, and if I find that I have been wrong I will both make corrections and apologize publicly
via the same venue. </div>
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<div><a href="https://lee-vinsel.squarespace.com/blog/2014/10/11/an-unresolved-issue-evgeny-morozov-the-new-yorker-and-the-perils-of-highbrow-journalism" target="_blank">https://lee-vinsel.squarespace.com/blog/2014/10/11/an-unresolved-issue-evgeny-morozov-the-new-yorker-and-the-perils-of-highbrow-journalism</a></div>
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<div>Sincerely,</div>
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<div>Lee<br clear="all">
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Assistant Professor<br>
Program on Science and Technology Studies<br>
College of Arts and Letters<br>
Stevens Institute of Technology<br>
Hoboken, NJ 07030<br>
<a href="http://AmericanScience.Blogspot.com" target="_blank">AmericanScience.Blogspot.com</a><br>
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