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Tressie (McMillan) Cottom on Democratizing Ideologies and Inequality Regimes in Digital Domains

August 4th, 2014

How are inequality regimes challenged, or sometimes perpetuated, in online environments? In this talk Tressie McMillan Cottom — blogger, PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Emory University, and PhD Intern at the Microsoft Research Network’s Social Media Collective — discusses inequality in online learning, based on qualitative research with students taking courses online at for-profit institutions.


Also in ogg for download

More info on this event here.

(Photo by @katrinoja)

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  • 1. Wildas Crosby  |  September 11th, 2014 at 9:42 am

    I love her idea of how we as people, ignoring the vast planes of inequality, are actually perpetuating the very same.

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