8 Scottish Academics Sign Letter Defending Nathan Cofnas over Jason Arday Pile-On

8 Scottish academics sign letter defending Nathan Cofnas over Jason Arday pile-on

EIGHT academics from Scottish universities have signed an open letter in support of the researcher who sparked the pile-on which preceded the death…

Markaðsvæðing menntunar og fall Jason Arday

Er menntun orðin hluti af markaðsvæðingu samtímans? Þessi spurning hefur oft leitað á mig undanfarin misseri, en hvílt sérstaklega þungt á mér síðustu daga í kjölfar þess sem kalla mætti krossfestingu fræðimannsins Jasons Arday.  Við lifum og hrærumst í svokölluðu hvítu-gagnkynhneigðu-feðraveldiskapítalisku samfélagi (e. white heteropatriarchal capitalism), þar sem upplýsingatækni hefur marktæk og afgerandi áhrif á samfélagslega umræðu. Stór hlu…

The anger at Jason Arday's treatment misses half the story

The publication of Great and Unfortunate Things will go ahead this Thursday (27), though its author, the late Jason Arday, is no longer here to see it. "I can promise you've never read a story like this. Even the viral news headlines don't do it justice", Kris Doyle, non-fiction director of Simon & Schuster told the Bookseller in April, unaware of the destruction the ever-intensifying headlines would bring in August.The publisher chose to stick …