[Linganth] Curating a Storify about Language & Social Justice Events at AAA 2016

[Bonnie Urciuoli]

Dear Hilary, Kate, Netta, and Mariam -- Kudos and many thanks to you all
for organizing this multimedia curating project! -- Bonnie

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Dick, Hilary <dickh at arcadia.edu> wrote:

> *<Apologies for any cross-posting>*
>
> Good evening, everyone--
>
> A few of us (Kate Riley, Netta Avineri,​ Mariam Durrani​, and I) have
> organized a hashtag campaign around Language & Social Justice (LSJ)
> initiatives at this year's AAA Meeting. The social media collected will be
> curated into a Storify to be published in *Anthropology News* following
> the Meeting.
>
> We are currently recruiting several LSJ members and other interested
> parties to act as social media respondents/tweeters at the conference.
> These 'designated' tweeters will sign up to attend specific AAA events
> relevant to the Language and Social Justice Committee’s work (please see
> attachment for more details and instructions).
>
> ​Once curated, ​t
> he resulting
> ​ ​
> Storify will be multimodal, multi-rhetorical (part illustration, part
> narrative, and part
> ​ ​
> analysis), and multi-authorial. This holistic response will increase
> awareness of the LSJ’s work
> ​ ​
> ​
> on social justice by providing an accessible window onto the diverse ways
> linguistic
> ​ ​
> anthropologists explore the interconnections between language (its
> structure, use, and ideology)
> ​ ​
> and a number of pressing anthropolitical issues.
>
> The editors of the Anthropology Newsletter Society for Linguistic
> Anthropology Section News have agreed to publish the resulting Storify not
> only because of the subject matter but also because of this innovative
> approach to disseminating anthropological news.
>
> For more information, please see the attached document.
>
> ​We welcome anyone who is interested to email us by *November 13th*.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best,
> Hilary
> (On behalf of Netta, Kate, and Mariam)
>
> Contact Information:
> Kathleen Riley; kriley1125 at gmail.com
> Netta Avineri; navineri at gmail.com
> Hilary Parsons Dick; dickh at arcadia.edu
> Mariam Durrani; mdurrani at gmail.com
>
> --
> HILARY PARSONS DICK, PhD
> Associate Professor of International Studies
> Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellow (2016)
> Department of Historical and Political Studies
> * Arcadia University*
> <https://www.arcadia.edu/profile/hilary-dick>
> <dickh at arcadia.edu>
>
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