Monthly Archives: April 2013

A Black Rock City Moment on Campus

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Will H. Moore

Walking to my office this morning I ran across a microcosm of Burning Man, here at Florida State.  To tag this as a Burning Man moment is a bit unfair, as these moments do not originate in that event.  Rather, … Continue reading →

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Garland Turns Ignorant Media Coverage Inward

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Will H. Moore

Riffing on Sara Kendzior’s post on Terrorism and Ethnicity in the American Media, Eric Garland imagined what a foreign media report written in that style might look like covering a killing in, say, Alabama or Georgia.  This is what he … Continue reading →

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What Obama’s Failure has Wrought

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Will H. Moore

The Weather Underground The news media gets more online hits, higher ratings, etc. when it sells fear. Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber) So we get news stories, like those documented by Sarah Kendzior, that “link,” without evidence, alleged perpetrators to shadowy … Continue reading →

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Why Eat Breakfast at McDonald’s? It’s the Stories.

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Will H. Moore

A woman wearing heals, a black sport coat, no skirt, but lime green undies, and rocking three curlers in her hair that have unrolled and bob at the end of her locks, threatening to break loose and scatter on the … Continue reading →

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Campaigning for Arnold

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Will H. Moore

I am a bit overcommitted with travel, teaching, blah, blah, blah, so in the interest of having some content, I am linking to a pre-weblog post I wrote back in 2003 explaining my brief foray into campaigning for Arnold Schwarzenegger when … Continue reading →

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Excitement about GDELT and some Personal Intellectual History

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Will H. Moore

GDELT (Global Data on Events, Location and Tone), a new, freely available, global events data base covering the years 1979 til recent is tearing up the interwebs among social science types (e.g., see Foreign Policy here and A Dart Throwing Chimp here). … Continue reading →

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PVGlance Wins “Most Promising New Blog” for 2013 by the International Studies Association

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Will H. Moore

Back in January of 2012 I found the following email from Erica Chenoweth in my In Box: Dear Will, I hope this email finds you well, and that 2012 is off to a good start for you. Barb Walter and I … Continue reading →

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