The title is click-bait. If you follow me on That Social Media site you know two things about me: I love Dolly Parton and I am mad for Hallmark Christmas movies. As the former goes without saying, …| Tressie McMillan Cottom
This semester I taught the first digital sociology capstone course in our Master’s of Digital Sociology program. In all of my classes I use the final class session to “zoom” back …| Tressie McMillan Cottom
I couldn’t care less about the substance of the most recent round of words between Cornel West and Ta-Nehisi Coates. If you need or want to catch-up you can do so here. The gist is West did a…| Tressie McMillan Cottom
For lots of reasons people frequently ask me for my CV. I almost never have the right/latest version available when they do. I have read all the blogs and advice about updating your CV immediately …| Tressie McMillan Cottom
Trust Black women! Do not expect Black women to save you! Which is it? This will make no sense to you if you are not in the social media communities on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr w…| Tressie McMillan Cottom
I spent the last ten to fifteen years of my life figuring out what is wrong with higher education. I think I have a handle on that part. The causation is hard to pin down precisely but the story ro…| Tressie McMillan Cottom
President Trump has turned the intellectual elite on its head. Depending on one’s disposition, public intellectuals have assigned blame (or credit) for the bombastic blowhard President-who-would-be…| Tressie McMillan Cottom
I argued that digital sociology, as a distinct subfield, needs to not only have a what but a why. It also needs a how. As I see it, digital sociology will: observe macro changes in the digital soci…| Tressie McMillan Cottom
Any attempt at knowledge production has to answer the basic question of what it is. But, before long, it must also address the question of why it is. As early as the 1990s sociologists were asking …| Tressie McMillan Cottom
Two weeks ago a report was issued about the “adultification” (1) of black girls. It was a familiar story. People of all races and genders perceive black girls as older than they are. Th…| Tressie McMillan Cottom