I wonder what professional journalists and editors say in defense of churnalism. I suspect their staff are so gutted they feel they can’t afford to do real reporting anymore. It feels like some stories are just written by algorithms. For example, the Seattle PI uses the names of neighborhoods from Google maps rather…

Thanks for the background info! I’ve never taken film studies so I don’t know who’s who.

There is a reason to go back and read old influential scholarship, like Laura Mulvey’s male gaze essay. But some old-ass sexist textbook? I don’t know what the rationale would be to teach that.

Your high school students sound like they understand plagiarism better than my college students. I don’t know what is taught in journalism school these days, but the writers on clickbait and TV news sites do the same thing Albrecht did: rewrite someone else’s article using their quotes and research. They just link the…

So much unprofessionalism. The sexist commentary in what is supposed to be a dispassionate scholarly analysis. The plagiarizing of the sexist textbook.  The professor using a 20-30 year old textbook. Had she been teaching the same curriculum since the 1980s?

I don’t think she’d be expelled. The academic honesty office at my university is tired of me reporting students for unattributed quotes.  They don’t even fail a class anymore.  The subtext is, “why didn’t you teach them not to plagiarize?” 

They still rearrange the words. It has a name now: patch-writing! My students patch-write all the time and don’t seem to understand why it’s not okay, no matter how many handouts I give them and threats of a grade deduction and stern language on the assignment prompt. My husband is a few years older than me says he…

I agree that Albrecht probably thought she’d done original work. If I understand correctly, she used the quotes collected by Herwees and cited the original Tumblr sources. Though Albrecht should have cited Herwees, I struggle to get my students to sufficiently rephrase a paraphrase instead of just changing 1-2 words.…

Do you remember if the handout included patch-writing? That’s the most common type of plagiarism I see: students paste in portions of sentences from internet sources without quotation marks. If there is an in-text citation, I assume they just tried and failed to paraphrase, but if they didn’t include a citation at…

Yes, and I still have college seniors plagiarizing. The most common types of plagiarism I see is a quote that’s cited but they “forgot” the quotation marks and sentences pasted in from internet sources that aren’t cited (again, no quotation marks). I even let them view their score on the plagiarism checker and…

To have a Next Generation, I think they’d have to pull a Disney and delete the comics from canon. I would personally be fine with this, since the Season 8+ comics have decreased my enjoyment of the original TV series. I initially liked Xander and Dawn’s friendship in season 7, but not anymore now that I know they were…

I stopped reading the comics a few “seasons” back, but they’d already gotten to the point where the complicated mythology was collapsing on itself.

They brought back Warren in the comics, which nobody wanted, so maybe they’ll bring back Anya.  

With Gina Torres as her big sister or mom.  

I love trades. They’re so easy to store and loan out. I have given away most of my single-issue comics since I’m not a collector, just a fan.

This post reminded me to pre-order Volume #9 though so I can hurry up and read it in October!

Anyone else reading the trade paperbacks? Looks like we’ll have to wait until October, when Volume 9 (issues #49-54) is released.

I think they said Culber won’t be from the MirrorVerse, so I’m curious how they’ll bring him back. How he was killed off was my least favorite part of season 1, which I otherwise overall enjoyed.

Like many of you, I’ve been reading this site since the beginning. I don’t know if I can handle anymore of the staff leaving. 

I’m not sure how much evidence you’d like, but a number of years ago, Charisma Carpenter openly discussed that he fired her because he was mad she got pregnant. This isn’t sexual assault, but still a shitty thing to do to your employee.

I agreed with Jill above. I think it is time for June to escape or die trying, and The Handmaid’s Tale to focus on the Waterfords, new characters, and Gilead itself.