<div dir="ltr">Dear Sharon,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your suggestions and comment. I have updated the original posting in light of your suggestions, providing better info both on Medina and Mills. I think you are right about being hyper-explicit in referencing them. </div><div><br></div><div>I also agree with your comment. Many people have been saying that this is an issue of generosity and lack thereof. </div><div><br></div><div>I have a follow up blog post coming out tomorrow, which builds on more recent information re: Morozov and The New Yorker. I think it might be more effective at getting both of them to move. </div><div><br></div><div>Very best,</div><div><br></div><div>Lee</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Sharon Traweek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:traweek@history.ucla.edu" target="_blank">traweek@history.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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>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></span></p>
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<span>* Eden Medina [MIT PhD], Informatics and Computing, Indiana University<u><br>
<a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~histweb/faculty/Display.php?Faculty_ID=69" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries</a>
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<span>* Mara Mills [PhD Harvard], Media, Culture, & Communication, NYU</span><span><br>
</span><span>".</span><span>..</span><span>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></span></p>
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<span> <a href="http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Mara_Mills" target="_blank">http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Mara_Mills</a></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Access her publications at
</span><span><a href="http://maramills.org/publications/" target="_blank"><span>http://maramills.org/publications/</span></a><br>
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</span><span>Next is my comment:</span></p>
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<span>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" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlebrow</a></span></p>
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<span>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" target="_blank">
http://theamericanscholar.org/upper-middle-brow/#.VDaufue0blU</a> </span></p>
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<span>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>Sincerely,</span></p>
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<span>Sharon Traweek, Gender Studies, UCLA</span></p>
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<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 dir="ltr">Dear SIGCIS Members,
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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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