The Perils of My Google Search History
drupagliassotti @ June 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A police detective testified Tuesday that a laptop computer taken from the home of a British man accused of killing his wife and 9-month-old daughter was used to search online for “how to kill with a knife” four days before the slayings.
For some time now I’ve been groaning about the movement toward using one’s Google […]
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Summer Discipline vs. the Price of Gas
drupagliassotti @ June 10, 2008 # One Comment
A long time ago, when I was working on my doctoral dissertation, I picked up a piece of advice that’s lingered with me: “Treat your dissertation as a job. Work on it from 9 to 5 every day.”
I was a full-time graduate student living on student loans, so that summer it would have been easy […]
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TV is an Emotional Abuser
drupagliassotti @ April 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Stressed about life? Feel like you don’t have enough time on your hands? Maybe you’re a victim of emotional abuse — from your television.
What is emotional abuse? Its manifestations include ignoring, rejecting, isolating, exploiting, verbally assaulting, and terrorizing its victim. Emotional abusers make their victims believe they are deficient in some way, leading to symptoms […]
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On Rape
drupagliassotti @ April 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Fantasy author Jim Hines wrote a good post on men and rape today. He comments that rape isn’t discussed enough in society, especially among men. I agree.
As a media scholar, I am well aware that depictions of sexual violence in the media — primarily in pornography, although we see the effect in music videos and […]
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