COM 610R

Wonderings...

What are our goals as academics when engaging in possibilities of social change? Throughout the semester, we have asked ourselves this question again and again, and have not really come to a definitive closure. What does it mean to engage as an academic in questions of social change? What are the possibilities of social change as we speak from within the academy, a site that is constituted within the discursive spaces of power and control? What are the ways in which we can engage with those communities whose voices have otherwise been silenced through the very exercises of expertise that lend us our legitimacy. How do we discuss possibilities of legitimacy and securing legitimacy within academia as subaltern scholars as this very legitimacy creates the "margins" that we seek to engage in?

Posting and Commenting

One more thing: Remember there's a difference between a 'posting' and a 'comment'. The comments are your responses to someone else's post. They will not be displayed as the main text and are visible only when you click on the "comments" line that tags the postings.

The postings are of course where you should each be posting your questions. Keeping the postings separate (i.e., instead of 4 people posting to the same place) allow others to respond and comment specifically on your questions -- thus creating multiple dialogues that are connected to the original posting.

Hope this helps.

How to post to this blog

Hi everyone,

To post to the blog, remember you must login (which is a different step from simply pointing to the blog site and reading and responding with comments). Here are the quick instructions:

1. Launch your web browser

2. Load this site: http://www.blogger.com/start

3. At top right corner, click "Sign in to blog" and supply login ID and password (from when you created your account), then click "Sign in"

4. Viewing the Dashboard, look in in the Blogs list window, and on the "Com 610R" blog line, click the green "plus sign" for a "new post".

5. In the new window, provide a "Title" and then type your posting in the text window below. Basic formatting options are provided. You can "preview" the post if you want.

6. Click the orange "Publish Post" when you're finished (or "Save as Draft" if you need to save and come back.)

That should do it!