Amanda Zilla

Digital Humanist (VR)| PhD Literatures in English Candidate @UWI_StAugustine | Educator | Writer| bookstagram: @amandareadstheworld| She/ her| Views- My own.

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Today's writing music 💃
https://t.co/IkXmv5mWqq

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@theiceberge @ois_ualberta Congratulations!

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As a Caribbean person reading McLuhan's words, I feel like the deprivation of a private identity also results in becoming a "mas man", performing a digital identity that would be most likely to generate likes and comments while burying our authenticity beneath mediated costuming.

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"And this, I think, has been one of the big effects of the electric age. It has deprived people, really, of their private identity. Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It’s called being mass man."- Marshall McLuhan

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I thought I reached peak organizational nerd when I started using Excel sheets compulsively, but I reached a new level today by collecting my friends' and family's feedback on an Interactive Map of Middle Earth through a psuedo-questionnaire via Google Forms.

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@dwbrunton Thank you for all of your assistance in making this a reality 💁🏽‍♀️✨

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I am also eternally grateful to every single academic and stakeholder who helped breathe life into my vision.

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In January, the FHE at UWI is offering a new undergraduate elective designed by me that combines my research interests of #transmedial #narratology and emerging technological media. If you know an undergrad in ANY faculty for whom it may be an asset, please share.

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@akhimalexis1 And it just might be you or me.

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@ShevaughnRacha @InternetH0F I literally used “ubiquitous” and “zeitgeist” in the same sentence yesterday 🤣

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“We who are born of the ocean can never seek solace in rivers”- Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s “South”

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Day one of this Workshop ✅
So exciting to see our regional teachers get hyped about tech integration into the #caribbean #englishclassroom and how #ai #technology can enhance their pedagogy, be ethically used and improve efficiency in the administrative aspects of educating.

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Started @AllenAgostini’s “Pot Luck” in #TrinidadNoir.
To say that these lines had me hooked from the first page is an understatement.

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Kamau Brathwaite’s “Manchild” in Black + Blues

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https://t.co/TocKt6zmQs
Productivity music ❤️

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@dwbrunton It's the well crafted part that I tend to struggle with 🙈

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@scotttingakee It really was. Hope everything is well with you .

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The kind of writing morning where I can feel the seismic transformation inside of me as I excavate ideas, words and the divine inspiration to assemble them. I have not had one of these in a very long time 💖#dissertationwriting #creativityandacademicwriting #phdlife

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@labiofy It really does ❤️