On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, First Contact, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/12/25/first-contact-2.html
For this half of the film, we need to talk about education, racism, safety, authoritarianism, and more.
#sciFi #starTrek #closeReading

Today I signed off for my Christmas break. 🥳🎄

Come the new year, I will be working on close reading, and this piece by Johanna Winant makes it clear why we should bother.

#AcademicChatter #CloseReading #care

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, First Contact, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/12/18/first-contact-1.html
For this half of the film, we need to talk about self-entitlement, microaggressions, disinterest in protecting life, and more.
#sciFi #starTrek #closeReading

Three lessons from a discussion of a clause in Shirley Jackson’s "Like Mother Used To Make”. #111Words #ShirleyJackson #LikeMotherUsedToMake #AcademicWriting #Students #Quotation #CloseReading #Conceptualization #Teaching #Students #Literature #ShortStory https://111-words.ghost.io/three-lessons-from-a-discussion-of-a-clause-in-shirley-jacksons-like-mother-used-to-make/

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Generations, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/12/11/star-trek-generations-2.html
For this half of the film, we need to talk about death, gender roles, economics, and more.
#sciFi #starTrek #closeReading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Generations, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/12/04/star-trek-generations-1.html
For this episode, we need to talk about racism, professionalism, grief, and more.
#sciFi #starTrek #closeReading

"This task was very simple as well as very hard. In every course, at every level, every semester—in every single class, multiple times every week—I taught close reading." —Johanna Winant for Boston Review

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/?src=longreads

#Reading #CloseReading #WestVirginiaUniversity

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Season 7, TNG https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/11/27/ng-season-7.html
We (quickly as possible) summarize final season, before moving on in the franchise.
#sciFi #starTrek #closeReading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, All Good Things, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/11/20/all-good-things-2.html
For this episode, we need to talk about authoritarian egos, management by manipulation, mass murder, gender roles, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, All Good Things, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/11/13/all-good-things-1.html
For this episode, we need to talk about bigotry, terrible romantic relationships, user interfaces, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Preemptive Strike https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/11/06/preemptive-strike.html
For this episode, we need to talk about racism, military rule, violence, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Emergence https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/10/30/emergence.html
For this episode, we need to talk about dealing with new life, invasions of privacy, preparation, and (a bit) more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

on my way to Vienna for #VIS4DH workshop this Sunday to see the latest research on humanist visualization / visualized humanities and present joint work with @proff:

»Textarium: Entangling Annotation, Abstraction and Argument«

Demo: https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/textarium/
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13191

#storytelling #closereading #nearreading #datavis #digitalhumanities #ieeevis

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Bloodlines https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/10/23/bloodlines.html
For this episode, we need to talk about grief, safety, inequality, international politics, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Firstborn https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/10/16/firstborn.html
For this episode, we need to talk about the propensity to violence, racism, and (a bit) more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Journey's End https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/10/09/journey-s-end.html
For this episode, we need to talk about colonists, disadvantaged populations, refusing immoral orders, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Genesis https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/10/02/genesis.html
For this episode, we need to talk about pet care (again), eugenics, status, sexism, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Eye Of The Beholder https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/09/25/eye-beholder.html
For this episode, we need to talk about ableism, therapy, respecting colleagues' time, gender roles, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Masks https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/09/18/masks.html
For this episode, we need to talk about anti-intellectualism, misappropriation, the treatment of foreign governments, and more.
#scifi #startrek #closereading

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Thine Own Self https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/09/11/thine-own-self.html
For this episode, we need to talk about pursuing status, using trauma as an assessment tool, anti-intellectualism, and a bunch of digressions.
#scifi #startrek #closereading