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Pediatric Bipolar and the Media of Madness
This past decade has witnessed an explosive rise in the controversial diagnosis of pediatric bipolar and the prescription of anti-psychotics to children. Has the behavior of American children grown more irritable and defiant, or has adult judgment of their behavior changed? How can we effectively study and explain these dramatic transformations in judgment and behavior? This article proposes a hypothesis that explains many of these developments and lays out a research program for a continuing investigation of these urgent questions. The paper highlights the controversy around the diagnosis of pediatric bipolar and the emerging relations between the media of surveillance and structures of social control. It explores connections between the interactive media landscapes inhabited by youth, the behavioral expectations imposed on them in schools, and the role of psychoactive drugs in mediating this tension. Finally, the article details the intersections between media, communications, and madness studies and proposes a research agenda for studying this controversy using approaches drawn from these disciplines
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Dangerous Gifts: Towards a New Wave of Mad Resistance
This dissertation examines significant shifts in the politics of psychiatric resistance and mental health activism that have appeared in the past decade. This new wave of resistance has emerged against the backdrop of an increasingly expansive diagnostic/treatment paradigm, and within the context of activist ideologies that can be traced through the veins of broader trends in social movements.
In contrast to earlier generations of consumer/survivor/ex-patient activists, many of whom dogmatically challenged the existence of mental illness, the emerging wave of mad activists are demanding a voice in the production of psychiatric knowledge and greater control over the narration of their own identities. After years as a participant-observer at a leading radical mental health advocacy organization, The Icarus Project, I present an ethnography of conflicts at sites including Occupy Wall Street and the DSM-5 protests at the 2012 American Psychiatric Association conference.
These studies bring this shift into focus, demonstrate how non-credentialed stakeholders continue to be silenced and marginalized, and help us understand the complex ideas these activists are expressing. This new wave of resistance emerged amidst a revolution in communication technologies, and throughout the dissertation I consider how activists are utilizing communications tools, and the ways in which their politics of resistance resonate deeply with the communicative modalities and cultural practices across the web. Finally, this project concludes with an analysis of psychiatry’s current state and probable trajectories, and provides recommendations for applying the lessons from the movement towards greater emancipation and empowerment
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Wiki Justice, Social Ergonomics, and Ethical Collaborations
In this essay we explore various theoretical, pedagogical, and historical aspects of wikis focusing on three questions as points of departure—"What is a wiki?"; "How do you teach with a wiki?" and finally "What is the point of a wiki?
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Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy
This chapter is concerned with the development of tools and activities to help students attend to video-based materials with increased focus and heightened awareness of their own intellectual project. Specifically, we are interested in facilitating deeper and more critical explorations of video and encouraging students to marshal video-based primary sources as evidence to support their thinking. We hope to demonstrate that when video is introduced into a curriculum, these activities produce a deeper level of engagement, better understanding of the content, or even an improvement in students' cognitive capacities for learning from video
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Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place--Code Repository 2021.10.01
Source code for the Footprints database. Footprints is a project to develop a database that tracks individual books through time and space to uncover patterns of trade and learning throughout the Jewish communities of Europe, Asia and the Americas during the modern period
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Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place--Code Repository v1.0
Source code for the Footprints database. Footprints is a project to develop a database that tracks individual books through time and space to uncover patterns of trade and learning throughout the Jewish communities of Europe, Asia and the Americas during the modern period
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Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place--Code Repository 2022.07.01
Source code for the Footprints database. Footprints is a project to develop a database that tracks individual books through time and space to uncover patterns of trade and learning throughout the Jewish communities of Europe, Asia and the Americas during the modern period
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Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place--Code Repository 2024.01.31
Source code for the Footprints database. Footprints is a project to develop a database that tracks individual books through time and space to uncover patterns of trade and learning throughout the Jewish communities of Europe, Asia and the Americas during the modern period