callan \ blog
april 8, 2017
It's been six months since my last post. My bad.
For some context, I started a new job about three weeks after the presentation I mentioned back then. I was in no way prepared for how difficult my first few months wound up being; initially, I thought about shying away from that on here, in my public presentation of myself, but I think we all need to embrace vulnerability and uncertainty a whole heck of a lot more than we tend to. These "muddy middles" are often where we learn the most, where we are putting our best foot forward because it's the only way we know how to stay afloat. I'd like to delve further into the twisty little passages I've been fighting my way through since November, but I'm here to talk about something else tonight.
Right now, the Theorizing the Web conference is going on in NYC; I'm not there for various reasons, but as has been my custom for the past few years, I'm tuning in from afar. TtW is a small two-day shindig that describes itself as "bring[ing] together scholars, journalists, artists, activists, and technology practitioners to think conceptually and critically about the interrelationships between the Web and society." One of the keynote panels this year, "Where Truth Lies," brought together journalists and theorists (and whatever you call the folks in middle of that Venn diagram) to discuss "[what it means] to produce and consume news information when the very shape of the world is contested, and any fact feels impossible."
