Christopher Cwynar

Assistant Professor of Communications at @TrentUDurham. PhD from @uwcommarts.

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[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

It looks as though there are still some free e-prints available of my recent @JrlRadioAudio article on @kexp’s evolution into a force in online music discovery and the station’s evolving relationship to its local scene: https://t.co/ooZyc2Cd0i

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@ericdharvey Very nice! Just read your blog post on this subject and excited to see/hear the full version of the paper.

[Andrew Bottomley @abottomley]

I'm teaming up with @lbeckste & @cwynar for an ICA panel proposal exploring podcasting as a visual medium. (ICA's in Denver, CO next year, June 12-16.) If anybody's got a paper idea that might fit in, please reach out! We'd love to have you join us.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@PabloVidalRibas @ktaylor Exact same situation for me in Comm and Media Studies. I’m not the most prolific researcher, but I’ve published in some top venues and could do more than the handful of reviews I’m asked to do most years. I think journals need to work harder to cultivate strong reviewer bases.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@SensCentral The young(ish) core is not good enough to compete at the highest level, especially without elite coaching (Green is not it). The absolute ceiling for this team is making the playoffs but even that will be difficult. I sure hope I am wrong about all of this, btw.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@brianfauteux @ucpress Congratulations, Brian! Look forward to reading this one.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@DrLMRobinson Two things: 1) Many small US colleges are in deficit these days as they struggle with enrollment & retention. 50K may be all they can offer. 2) 50K may not be so bad depending upon the location. My first TT job paid 48K and I was doing better than friends making 75K elsewhere.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@SimmerDownCIH Not with GK salaries behind their peers, the rising cap, and the number of UFA years the deal would encompass. If I'm Swayman, I'm not taking anything less than 10M (ideally 11) on any deal of 4+ years. Also, let's not forget that guys like McAvoy are making 9.5/yr...

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@DeGendtThomas Congratulations on a brilliant career, Thomas.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@imwithpulp Thank you, Mark. Glad you enjoyed your time here. The show on the 10th was phenomenal. We so appreciated you coming and giving us the chance to see you that many of us never thought we'd have. Best of luck with the rest of the tour.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@TSPSimmerDown Of course. They’re just workers at the end of the day and have so little control over their initial working conditions. Why not try to obtain a move if one is unhappy and has any leverage at all? Most of us would do the same in such a situation.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@GraemeNichols The four-year deal provides some security, but Green's lack of success as a HC thus far (just one winning season) means there will be some immediate pressure. There is nothing in his history to suggest that extra patience is warranted and this market has suffered for a long while

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@drjessmaddox Would “A Rape in Cyberspace” work for this?

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@pourfairelevide Appropriate reading amounts and materials always depend upon one’s institution and the specific course context. Having said that, this seems like a ton, even for upper-level Ivy UGs. FWIW, I assigned a lot early in my career and been reducing and have been reducing ever since.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@dem8z I hear you, but the organizations with which I am most familiar do need to have conferences each year because the conferences are the primary incentive for members to renew their memberships (applying and then attending). Otherwise, people would just let their memberships lapse.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@aepasek Yes! Now time to build the fitness back up and ride around the lake 💪🏻

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@RoboRobbins This is a pretty amazing plan in the sense that the southern part of the city is barely served beyond the major lines. Nepean wants in lol.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@gregorytaylor1 Those nightly fireworks sound brutal :(

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

@FromPhDtoLife If I knew for certain, I might have had a better chance of mastery :) That said, I think it's about imposing a rigid time-blocking structure (in a compassionate manner) and then sticking with it. Also requires effectively breaking big tasks into tiny bites as a precursor.

[Christopher Cwynar @cwynar]

100%. I think this is due to players playing too much football, tourny fields being expanded too much, and many teams adopting extremely conservative tactics. In recent years, the most interesting major tournament matches have been in the early rounds, IMO.

[Carlo Garganese @carlogarganese]

Euro 2024 is the worst quality Euros or World Cup in my lifetime

All the big teams except Spain & Germany have been unwatchable

Where’s the superstars, attackers, dribblers, patterns of play?

Football has declined massively last 20 years

Players (robots) are fitter, that’s it