Emily Saidel, PhD

I study politics, paratexts, and TV, and combinations of the three. My name anagrams to I Yells Media. Asst Profesor, Mass Communication, Menlo College

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@MikeVanEsler Not exactly environmental impact, but related: Dan Herbert's piece "The Movie Business as Waste Management Industry" is a fun prompt for thinking about media, garbage, and how value gets assigned https://t.co/TPox35GUGS

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"Goes to extreme measures" is a strange way of saying "kills people" #YouNetflix

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Going into 39 like someone who tested positive for Covid a few days ago

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@AcademicChatter Figure out why you are doing the degree. Is it a credential for an industry job you want? Are you aiming to be a college professor and if so, what type of professor? ‘I’m passionate about the subject’ doesn’t count because you can be passionate without a credential

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Nothing like packing for a move to make you realize how many books you have from the same publishers. @DukePress @NYUpress I'm looking at you! (And thank you for the relatively consistent sizing!)

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@drjessmaddox POTUS in a bicycle accident. Come to the office

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Something fun (or, rather, "fun") I came across while collecting other articles. From @Esquire 1978

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@emilynussbaum Celebrity Homonym!

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@DrPetra @AcademicChatter Students come in with an idea of what research *looks* like, and that preconception leads to judgements of what counts and what doesn’t, especially regarding different fields and different methods. We should start by talking to them about what the activity of research *is*.

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@djsoulsister @joshshepperd Thanks for the interest, but this will be a class visit rather than a public talk

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How I wish @nbcthegoodplace was still on so we could get a Judge Gen @MayaRudolph reaction to this news https://t.co/0nGZyrmpxN

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@Volsicle This student is using the “Bartleby, the Scrivner” productivity method

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@JSRichman A sandwich that is like a sub or a hoagie. Father’s from Boston, mother’s from Maryland, I grew up outside of Philadelphia so I’ve got variety in my sandwich terminology

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@Buehlmeister 👍🏻

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@Buehlmeister I’m in the middle of Blacktongue Thief, and I’m confused. In Chapter 43 Kinch can’t understand the Ispanthian conversation even though it’s been established that he can understand all languages…and he doesn’t seem to notice this loss of ability

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@CharlieEbersole Utilize. 90% of the time someone used something in a totally intended and predictable way, so just say used.

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@LizWFab You have undergrads who save things to their desktops and not only to the cloud?!

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@joshshepperd If you’re serious and would want to talk to a ‘how to study popular culture’ class about archival research, I’d love to have you

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@ThomasJBillard Yep. Full marks. Which feels much less arbitrary to me then assigning numbers to assess writing assignments. Maybe it would be different if I assigned exams.

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@ThomasJBillard I’m pretty convinced that putting numbers on writing assignments is a mismatch between activity and assessment

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@ThomasJBillard This semester I’m trying complete or incomplete-with-opportunity-to-revise on everything. Ran into a few unanticipated situations that I’ll shift to account for next semester, but overall loving avoiding numerical/letter on individual assignments