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		<title>Immigration Reform, the Boston Marathon Bombings, and Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 20:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Witte and Randy Lynn Beginning in February 2013, researchers at the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) at George Mason University began tracking the national immigration reform conversation on Twitter. Our view was that Twitter would be one of several social media venues where the evolving immigration reform debate could be tracked and analyzed. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmupublicsoci.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32461539&#038;post=504&#038;subd=gmupublicsoci&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Onions, Apples, Tomatoes and Immigration Reform: We Owe it to Ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jean Boucher and James Witte If you own a garden, have ever experimented with gardening, or are even vaguely aware of fluctuations in availability and prices of produce in your supermarket, you know that different fruits and vegetables have different seasons. April will soon be upon us, the beginning of another spring, and harvest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmupublicsoci.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32461539&#038;post=500&#038;subd=gmupublicsoci&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Media Consolidation in the Public Interest?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By April Glaser and Jason Smith How does media consolidation affect women and minority ownership opportunities and local reporting?  Experts debate proposed FCC rules, at forum on “Media Ownership and the Public Interest.” [The event can be viewed here] Minorities now account for 37 percent and women over 50 percent of the United States population.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmupublicsoci.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32461539&#038;post=480&#038;subd=gmupublicsoci&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Student&#8217;s work featured in article</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In relation to our 2012-13 Flagship Cause, &#8220;Inequality in the Lecture Hall,&#8221; PhD candidate and Flagship Cause chair, Marisa Allison, was featured in a recent article on Inside Higher Ed.  Marisa&#8217;s doctoral work focusing on women earning their doctorates and the state of adjunct faculty were highlighted, as well as featuring a quote from her: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmupublicsoci.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32461539&#038;post=474&#038;subd=gmupublicsoci&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adjunct Professors Unite: Labor Rights On College Campuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Related to our Flagship Cause for the 2012-13 academic year, listen to a podcast from the Kojo Nnamdi show, originally aired on October 1, 2012 on WAMU 88.5 – Washington, DC. Colleges and universities increasingly rely on part-time and non-tenure track faculty, who now teach half or more of all classes on many campuses. Many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmupublicsoci.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32461539&#038;post=463&#038;subd=gmupublicsoci&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Pop Culture &amp; Academia Collide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<title>The 2012-13 Flagship Cause</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[INEQUALITY IN THE LECTURE HALL: THE PERILS OF CONTINGENT FACULTY ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES Depending on the institution, they can be known as adjuncts, postdocs, TAs, non-tenure-track faculty, clinical faculty, part-timers, lecturers, instructors, or nonsenate faculty. What they all have in common: they serve in insecure, unsupported positions with little job security and few protections for academic freedom. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmupublicsoci.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32461539&#038;post=420&#038;subd=gmupublicsoci&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Society for the Study of Social Problems has released its Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2012, a publication designed to inform policy makers and the public-at-large about some of the nation&#8217;s most pressing social problems and to propose policy responses to those problems. It is an effort by SSSP to nourish a more public sociology that will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmupublicsoci.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32461539&#038;post=406&#038;subd=gmupublicsoci&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could Dora the Explorer upload a public file?  We think the answer is yes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kristian Davis Bailey and Jason Smith On Tuesday, July 17 we attended the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) demonstration of their new online interface for the uploading of television broadcasters’ “public inspection files” (PIFs).  [A video of the demonstration has been archived on the FCC’s website and is available here.] Greg Elin, Chief Data Officer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmupublicsoci.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32461539&#038;post=398&#038;subd=gmupublicsoci&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and&#8230;immigrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Witte and Josh Tuttle On opening night of the 2012 Major League Baseball season, ESPN introduced a series of new commercials reviving General Motors mid-1970s &#8220;Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet&#8221; advertising campaign. Going into the 2012 MLB All-Star Game this month, another slogan came to mind: &#8220;Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gmupublicsoci.wordpress.com&#038;blog=32461539&#038;post=370&#038;subd=gmupublicsoci&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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