"Engaged academics are not confined to traditional mainstream media. They are encouraged to use ostensibly democratizing tools like Twitter, Facebook and blogs." -Tressie McMillan Cottom
"Social media platforms are designed to facilitate certain kinds of behaviors. Twitter amplifies. Facebook brands. Tumblr remixes. Instagram illustrates." Tressie McMillan Cottom
From "Academic Outrage: When the Culture Wars Go Digital" by Tressie McMillan Cottom
"...whenever belonging is made visible in the formation of a community, it is always coded by those who control the invitation to belong." - Kate Bowles
"To me, this is a critical weakness in institutions: their need to run on a business model. The conversation across business and institutional boundaries is the most likely to generate the solutions we need." -Kate Bowles
"May your partner be taciturn. May you read only 5-paragraph essays. Worse, may you write only 5-paragraph essays. May your pizzas all be gluten-free. May your ice cream be ice milk.
May your coffee be lukewarm." -Amanda Potts, "Curses"