Friday, July 21, 2017

I wish these bright young people all the best in the "real world." ...


John Brown [facebook comment]
I wish these bright, prize-winning USC young scholars (see below) all the best if they wish to communicate with the "real world" (I include their current/future students in that category) outside of the jargon-infested "specialized" (linguistically parochial?) USA academe ...
Some of the titles of their, doubtless, endlessly time-consuming research: “LGBT Representation of Webtoons: Parasocial Contact Hypothesis, Familiarity and Interaction”; “Who uses dating apps? Exploring the relationships among trust, sensation-seeking, smartphone use, and the intent to use dating apps based on the Integrative Model”; “Acculturation to both American and Chinese Cultures Predicts Condom Use Intent Among US-Dwelling Chinese/Taiwanese MSM"; "Why Did The Internet Fall Out Of Love With Cats?"; “Who Cares What Others Think? The Role of Latinas’ Acculturation in the Processing of HPV Vaccination Narrative Messages”; “How to Unring the Bell: A Meta-Analytics Approach to Debiasing of Misinformation"; “Verbal Stigmatization from Family: How Does that Affect Latino Men Who Have Sex With Men?” .... The prize-winning absurdity/incomprehensibility goes on and on ... 


Marcia Allison (ABD) has been accepted as an Emerging Scholar to the 2017 Milton Wolf Seminar: The Marshall Plan and the Yearning for Transformative Visions.…
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