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‘The Future Is Female’: New Anthology Collects Sci-fi by Women
November 29, 2018
Lisa Yaszek, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was written about in a Chicago Tribune article entitled “'The Future Is Female': New anthology collects sci-fi by women.”
Here's an excerpt:
When science fiction’s Hugo Awards were presented in August, all the fiction categories were won by women. But women weren’t always so celebrated. Lisa Yaszek’s fascinating and well-researched anthology presents a trove of writers who helped define the genre from the 1920s through the 1960s, some nearly forgotten today. While Yaszek has been careful to find stories that represent, for better or worse, the characteristic styles of each generation, she’s not focused specifically on feminism; her main theme is that female writers were always an influential part of the field.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Chicago Tribune
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The Secret History of Science Fiction's Women Writers: The Future is Female!
November 29, 2018
Lisa Yaszek, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in a Boing Boing article entitled “'The Future Is Female': New anthology collects sci-fi by women.”
Here's an excerpt:
Eminent science fiction scholar Lisa Yaszek (Georgia Tech Professor of Science Fiction in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication) has edited "The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin," a forthcoming anthology of science fiction (and scientifiction!) by woman writers from the 1920s published last month by Library of America.
In a wide-ranging interview about the book, Yaszek discusses the historical research she did on the influence women writers had on the field and the ways that their contributions were viewed, and her discovery that the received narrative (women were viewed with suspicion and wrote under androgynous or masculine pen-names to avoid stigma) is at best incomplete and often dead wrong.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Boing Boing
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RSA Conference: This Time with More Women
November 14, 2018
Carol Colatrella, co-director of the Georgia Tech Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology was recently quoted in an article entitled “RSA Conference: This time with more women,” which was posted on Cnet.com
Colatrella is also a professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC), and associate dean for graduate studies in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Here's an excerpt:
Earlier this year, RSA Conference organizers named only one woman out of 20 for its initial lineup of headline speakers at the massive cybersecurity conference. The result: a wave of complaints and a rogue conference, entitled OurSA, that featured women and minority speakers.
RSA Conference isn't making the same mistake next year. Conference organizers on Tuesday said they're banning all-male panels and urging their sponsors to send keynote speakers from diverse backgrounds. They're also adding new programs designed to make all attendees feel welcome and safe, like on-site child care and a safe walk program to escort attendees to nearby hotels and transit.
LMC is a unit of the Ivan Allen College.
Published in: Cnet
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Inside the Computer Science Tech Comm Classroom
November 14, 2018
Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick, a visiting lecturer in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC), recently published the second part in her series on the intersections of technical communication in the tech industry and classroom. RedMonk, an industry analyst firm, has been hosting her series.
Here's an excerpt:
One (but by no means the only) path to a career in software development is through an undergraduate degree in Computer Science (CS). For most of the Georgia Techstudents majoring in CS or Computational Media (CM), a related interdisciplinary degree, this path includes a two-semester CS Junior Design course sequence. The Junior Design sequence is offered as a co-requisite to a two-semester tech comm course sequence in which communicative deliverables are tied to software development design, planning, and implementation practices that students are likely to encounter in the tech industry.
LMC is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: RedMonk
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Creating the Atlanta Community Engagement Playbook
November 12, 2018
Mariam Asad, a doctoral candidate in the Georgia Insitute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication's Digital Media program, and Christopher Le Dantec, an associate professor in the Digital Media program, recently wrote an article for the Atlanta Studies blog about their work designing the Community Engagement Playbook for the City of Atlanta.
Here's an excerpt:
In the summer of 2016, a team of students and researchers from Georgia Tech collaborated with the City of Atlanta, a group of Atlanta residents, and service providers to produce a community engagement playbook for the City of Atlanta. This “playbook” is a collection of best practices – or “plays” – for how to implement effective and impactful civic engagement projects across different city concerns. The goal of the playbook is to increase the capacities of both community associations and service providers to collaborate to achieve authentic and impactful change that represents the needs of Atlantans. Written as a collection of resources, the playbook contains a variety of practices and strategies that can be picked up in part or in whole depending on who’s involved, community needs, and availability of time and resources. Instead of rehashing what we learned about the playbook, which is freely available online, here we’d like to share a little about what we learned about community engagement through the process we used to create the playbook.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Atlanta Studies
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Violence Around Election Time Actually Makes People More Likely to Vote
November 7, 2018
David Muchlinski, assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was recently quoted in a Washington Post article entitled “Violence around election time actually makes people more likely to vote."
Here's an excerpt:
David Muchlinski, a political science professor at Georgia Tech, offered a parallel to the Philippines, where local militias are either hired directly or encouraged by politicians to attack their opponents around election time. In the United States, Muchlinski said, extremists are being egged on by Trump and the Republican Party.
The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: The Washington Post
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What happened to all the women in science fiction?
November 6, 2018
Lisa Yaszek, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was recently quoted in a Chicago Tribune article entitled “What happened to all the women in science fiction?”
Here's an excerpt:
Part of her research is on “recovery of lost voices in science fiction,” and in early 20th century, she said, there were around 300 female writers contributing to Weird Tales, Wonder Stories and other pulps. Keeping with conventions of the time, they were often at home with kids, writing between child care, or if they were teachers, writing while their students were hunched over classwork, Yaszek said.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Chicago Tribune
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Georgia Smart Communities Challenge Kicks Off in Albany
October 31, 2018
The research of Omar Isaac Asensio, professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, was recently featured in an Albany Herald article entitled "Georgia Smart Communities Challenge kicks off in Albany."
Read an excerpt here:
A team from Georgia Tech and officials with the city of Albany took part in an engagement workshop Tuesday in an effort to move the Georgia Smart Communities Challenge forward in the city.
Four Georgia communities, including Albany, are seeking “smart solutions” through the Georgia Tech-led program to implement smart design solutions to some of the city’s challenges. This initiative, in its inaugural year, is meant to bring together industry and public agencies to help local governments implement smart development.
Published in: Albany Herald
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Is Germany's Future Brown or Green?
October 31, 2018
Claire Greenstein, a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, recently co-authored an article in Slate entitled "Is Germany’s Future Brown or Green?"
Here's an excerpt:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Monday that she’s stepping down as the party chief of the Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, and that she won’t seek re-election to Germany’s highest political office in 2021. “The time has come to open a new chapter,” she explained, leaving pundits scrambling to figure out who might succeed Europe’s most powerful leader.
For the first time in at least a decade, no one can accuse German politics of being boring.
Published in: Slate
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Video Games Remind Us That Not Everything in Life Has a Computable Answer
October 31, 2018
Ian Bogost, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, recently wrote an article entitled “Video games remind us that not everything in life has a computable answer” for the website Quartz.
Here's an excerpt:
A dozen years ago—before iPhones, before Twitter, when Facebook was still available only in colleges—the media theorist McKenzie Wark predicted that real life would become infected by the numerical obsession of games. “Games are no longer a pastime, outside or alongside of life,” Wark wrote. “They are now the very form of life, and death, and time, itself.” He called the result “gamespace”—a cultural ideal where all meaning is turned into measurable numbers, against which performance can be judged.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Quartz
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A Better Way to Confront Russia's Nuclear Menace
October 29, 2018
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a professor in the Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, recently wrote a guest column in The Hill entitled "A Better Way to Confront Russia's Nuclear Menace."
Here's an excerpt:
Ongoing Russian violations of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty need to be effectively addressed because they defy a longstanding bilateral agreement and directly threaten our NATO allies. However, the Trump administration’s move to pull out of the treaty is misguided; instead, we should launch a major initiative to strengthen strategic stability between the United States and Russia. The additional notice by national security adviser John Bolton that the United States is “considering its position about New START” — the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty — is another example of escalatory rhetoric and illogical action that will undermine, rather than enhance, nuclear security.
Published in: The Hill
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Intelligence Matters: A CBS News original national security podcast
October 29, 2018
Admiral (ret.) James "Sandy" Winnefeld, distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and senior fellow at the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy, was a guest host on "Intelligence Matters: A CBS News original national security podcast."
Admiral Winnefeld interviews Norman Roule, who spent decades at the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence managing significant programs related to the Middle East. Roule, who recently returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia, explains how developments in the Khashoggi matter are being received by Saudi citizens and what senior officials in the Kingdom may do in response to widespread calls for transparency and accountability. Roule also details the many other challenges facing the Kingdom - including its domestic modernization push, the Yemen and Syria conflicts on its borders, and its efforts to build a post-oil economy.
Listen to the podcast interview on CBS News
Published in: CBS News
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Hands-Free Georgia Act Improves Roadway Safety, Still Room for Improvement
October 29, 2018
Robert Rosenberger, professor in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, recently wrote a guest column in Saporta Report entitled "Hands-Free Georgia Act Improves Roadway Safety, Still Room for Improvement."
Read an excerpt here:
The Georgia Hands-Free Act went into effect back in July, banning the use of handheld phones while driving. This is a major change for Georgia drivers, and it’s one we should support. Over the last few years, the U.S. has seen a dramatic spike in traffic fatalities, a 14 percent increase since 2014.
The state of Georgia has been among those to suffer most, with more than double the national rate of increase, the fifth highest in the nation. While it is impossible to be certain that smartphone usage behind the wheel is the most significant cause of the spike, it is a strong possibility. Something had to be done.
The Georgia Tech School of Public Policy is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Saporta Report
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Nobel Winner Says Georgia Leads in Clean Energy
October 24, 2018
Marilyn Brown, professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, was recently interviewed by J. Cindy Hill of Georgia Public Broadcasting. The interview covered Brown's thoughts on Georgia's renewable enrgy portfolio and how the state is leading in carbon neutral energy sources. Listen to the entire interview here.
The School of Public Policy is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Georgia Public Broadcasting
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Were women ever sacred? Some medieval and modern men would like us to think so
October 17, 2018
Richard Utz, Chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, recently wrote an article for Medivalists.net entitled "Were women ever sacred? Some medieval and modern men would like us to think so." In his article, Utz analyzes recent media discussions around chivalry.
Here's an excerpt:
In her October 7, 2018, article for the Washington Post, “Chivalry isn’t dead. But it should be,” Amy Kaufman questions the use of medievalist values like “chivalry” in defense of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh during his contentious confirmation process for his appointment on the U.S. Supreme Court. Kaufman concludes that chivalry, always more literary than real, was not only a “protection racket” because it obliges women to rely on men to protect them from other men, but also only ever protected certain (noble) women. Upon reading her article, I remembered that I had heard similar medievalist statements before, and directly from the White House.
Read the full article here.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.Published in: Medievalists.net
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Dual-use Research: War and Peace
October 11, 2018
Margaret Kosal, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was recently interviewed in an article published in Research Europe entitled "Dual-use Research: War and Peace." Kosal spoke about the risks to security and proliferation, and to negative impacts on research productivity and freedom.
The article is only available with a subscription, which can be purchased here.The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is a unity of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Research Europe
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High-tech Ideas Being Implemented in Smart Cities
October 4, 2018
The research of Christopher Le Dantec, an associate professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was recently featured in a WSB-TV video story about smart cities.
Watch the full video here.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.Published in: WSB-TV
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More People Are Using NW Corridor Express Lanes
October 4, 2018
The research of Christopher Le Dantec, an associate professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was recently featured in a WSB-TV video story about the recently opened express lanes in metro Atlanta.
Watch the full video here.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.Published in: WSB-TV
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Why Donald Trump's New Space Force Can't Hurt China Like Star Wars Hurt the Soviet Union
October 4, 2018
Margaret Kosal, professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was recently quoted in an article published in the South China Morning Post entitled "Why Donald Trump's New Space Force Can't Hurt China Like Star Wars Hurt the Soviet Union."
Here's an excerpt:
Margaret Kosal, associated professor at Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US, said that unlike the neck-and-neck competition between Washington and Moscow during the cold war, the US remains the leader in space, while China is quickly catching up.
She said Beijing’s 2007 destruction of one of its weather satellites had created a harmful cloud of debris in orbit around the Earth, exposing how far China still trails the US in space exploration technology.
The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.Published in: South China Morning Post
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The Future is Female! An Interview with Lisa Yaszek
October 2, 2018
Lisa Yaszek, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was interviewed about her recent book, The Future is Female!
Here's an excerpt:
How does this collection address intersectionality? On page xvii of your introduction you list “a host of issues, including sexism, racism, environmentalism, colonialism and capitalism”—how are issues of gender, sexuality, race and class linked in these stories?
Lisa Yaszek: Given that intersectionality is technically a critical frame first advocated by black feminists in recent decades, and that most of the women in this anthology were white women from the first part of the twentieth-century, I was actually surprised to find as much intersectionality as I did in these stories! Perhaps not surprisingly, women often used the figure of the alien other to explore interlocking systems of oppression. We see this as early as Leslie F. Stone’s 1931 story “The Conquest of Gola,” which uses a brutal (and sometimes brutally funny) interplanetary battle of the sexes to map the connections between gender discrimination and environmental and economic exploitation. (In fact, it’s interesting to note that while Stone specifically connects masculinity to imperialism, she also recognizes that powerful women might well indulge in sex and gender discrimination as well as any man.)
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Published in: Women Write About Comics
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