The Banana Slicer Reviews and White Fragility in the Workplace "HR video"

This video is meant to be a parody educational video that you would see in some sort of HR training.
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Acts of citizen[ship] sociolinguistics

In Acts of Citizenship, professor Isen discusses how 'citizenship' has been studied in terms of 'status', where ideas of legality, boundaries, rights and obligations are the focus of study, and 'habitus' which are the "ways of thought and conduct that are internalized over a relatively long period of time" (p. 15). Instead of these two ways of studying 'citizenship,' he proposes a new perspective that focuses on "acts," meaning "the moments when subjects constitute themselves as citizens" (p.18). These acts seem to be characterized by breaking with habitus and creating ruptures like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Marion Wallace Dunlop's hunger strike did. Additionally, acts of citizenship seem to be oriented towards justice and involve acting and reacting with others (p. 39). In Acts of Citizen Sociolinguistics, professor Rhymes explains that citizens sociolinguistics acts are ruptures that ma...

Is internet trolling bullying? What shoud we do?

On Sunday, June 26th, 2016, Tylenol shared a family photo of @2TravelDads and their sons. Here’s what the tweet looked like: Despite the fact that thousands of people across the internet showed their support and love for LGBT families all over, they also received tons of messages and tweets calling them pedophiles and threatening to work to have their kids taken away. Does the internet trolling this family has experienced count as bullying? In my opinion, it does, even though it differs from the bullying depicted by Boyd (2014). This type of bullying suffered by @2TravelDads does not only exist in the world of teenagers so it won’t outgrow, and also each of us can become the target. This type of bullying can happen whenever you voice your opinion on a controversial topic, particularly a political issue online. Now, the question is: What should we do when facing trollings/mean comments online? Ideally, we and the people who hold different opinions can hav...

Citizen Sociolinguistics 2019

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