679 research outputs found
Toby Miller on Games
No full textToby Miller is Professor of English, Sociology, and Women's Studies and Director of the Program in Film & Visual Culture at the University of California, Riverside. His teaching and research cover the media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy. Toby is the author and editor of over 20 books, and has published essays in more than 30 journals and 50 volumes. His current research covers the success of Hollywood overseas, the links between culture and citizenship, and anti-Americanism. His forthcoming book is Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.\ud
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This interview was conducted during Toby's recent stint at QUT as a visiting fellow of the Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Toby delivered a lecture on the games industry in which he directed attention both to the production cycle of games hardware and software, and to the historical context of moral panics about new media, where games can be viewed as the latest in a long line of new media to generate anxiety within a culture.\ud
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In this interview we canvass the directions that games studies might take, and the issues of production, particularly as they relate to the role of players as producers, and the politics of labour in this new model of networked production
Toby Tortoise and the Hare
No full textI am glad at last to have some original Disney fable work. The presentation is surprising. It assumes the race. During it, Max shows off for the little-girl rabbits at Miss Cottontail's Boarding School. (They can be recognized by their huge eyelashes!) All laugh meanwhile at Toby as he goes on at a snail's pace. Then, surprisingly, a different story begins: Max and Toby wage a prize fight. The experience of the first story repeats itself. Toby trains and knocks out lazy Max with one punch. Because both copies have flaws, I will keep both in the collection
College students are a poor investment
No full textDuring a speech on March 1 at the Rutgers Athletic Center to an enthusiastic New Jersey audience, including 9,000 students, President Clinton returned to his campaign theme of "investment" in education. In return for tuition loans to make college attendance more affordable, "we'll ask you to..
In war against grade inflation, Dartmouth scores a hit
No full textThe anonymous note left under my office door in May 1991 was like a slap in the face: "How can you justify giving 13 A's in a class with over 200 people. You are just an old [expletive deleted]. I could have had a 4.0 for three straight semesters. You know you have a blow-off class. Burn in hell.
LGBTI variations in crime reporting: how sexual identity influences decisions to call the cops
Full text linkResearch shows that people vary in their willingness to report crime to police depending on the type of crime experienced, their gender, age, and their race or ethnicity. Whether or not lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) and heterosexual people vary in their willingness to report crime to the police is not well understood in the extant literature. In this article, I examine variations in LGBTI respondents' attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control on their intentions to report crimes to the police. Drawing on a survey of LGBTI individuals sampled from a Gay Pride community event and online LGBTI community forums (N = 329), I use quantitative statistical methods to examine whether LGBTI people's beliefs in police homophobia are also directly associated with the behavioral intention to report crime. Overall, the results indicate that LGBTI and heterosexual people differ significantly in their intention to report crime to the police, and that a belief in police homophobia strongly influences LGBTI people's intention to underreport crime to the police
Is a weapons-screening strategy for public schools good public policy?
No full textA situational crime prevention strategy is essentially the basis for hopes to prevent a recurrence of terrorist attacks on airliners. Can "entry-based weapons-screening" cope with the problem of school violence effectively? I have doubts that it can.Published in Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, April 1, 2002. Copyright Duke University Press
Social Research as a Calling
No full textOriginally published in: Robert K. Merton and Matilda White Riley, Sociological Traditions from Generation to Generation, Ablex Publishing Company, 1980, pp. 131-151
Ep. #011 - Toby Jones
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.This week’s Cultures of Energy podcast turns toward the Middle East as Dominic and Cymene speak (8:35) with Rutgers historian Toby Jones, author of Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia (Harvard University Press, 2010) and Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water and Environmental Crisis (Rutgers University Press, 2015). The conversation reveals the knotted history of energy, water, security and infrastructure that has led to a seemingly endless war machine in the region. We talk about how the politics of water in the making of the Saudi Arabian state, how American energy and military agendas became fused together in the Gulf, the relationship between sovereignty and shipping and how to use seawater as a theory machine. Toby encourages us all to acknowledge energy’s place in the war machine and to commit ourselves to ending war for energy
Pay isn't foremost of teacher tribulations
No full textJust before adjourning last year, Congress attached to the Head Start financing bill the provisions of what had passed the House as the "Talented Teachers Act." The bill will offer 2,500 college scholarships of as much as $5,000 a year each to highschool seniors in the top 10% of their class in exchange for a pledge to teach in a public or nonprofit private school for two years for each year of college aid
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