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Fitz (Jonathan D. Fitzgerald)

@jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social

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Associate prof of English. Author of "How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists". Teaching and writing nonfiction, mostly. Bylines: NYT, Boston Globe, Atlantic, etc. Let’s talk about restoring local journalism. jonathandfitzgerald.com

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Fitz (Jonathan D. Fitzgerald) @jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Help a local news startup get off the ground! I'm on the board of Swampscott Tides, an independent online local news source that we're hoping will launch early next year. This Giving Tuesday, we're asking for your support to help us get started reporting the news. Thanks! swampscotttides.org/donate/

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Fitz (Jonathan D. Fitzgerald) @jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I do think there is danger in only interacting with people with whom you already agree, but the greater danger may be assuming complete agreement when there rarely is. This, 2017 essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, is helpful. harpers.org/archive/2017...

Though great political work and useful debate about ideas and ethics is happening over social media, much of the time we spend together (or in solitude) has been replaced by the time we spend online, in arenas not conducive to subtlety or complexity. We have shifted to short declarative statements, to thinking in headlines, binaries, catch-all categories, to viewing words as pieces in a game of checkers rather than, say, gestures in a ballet.
If you're confident that everything not black is white, discussions about shades and hues seem beside the point. This absolutism presumes that our only position on those with whom we don't have complete agreement is complete disapproval, and also that agreement is simple, past which there is no nuance, strategy, possibility to explore.

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Fitz (Jonathan D. Fitzgerald) @jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Mos Def & Talib Kwelie are Black Star album cover

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Fitz (Jonathan D. Fitzgerald) @jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

open.substack.com/pub/inprog/p...

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Fitz (Jonathan D. Fitzgerald) @jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Happy holidays to me! This beautiful book just arrived! It was a pleasure to work with @briancroxall.bsky.social and Diane Jakacki and all the other contributors/collaborators!

Table of contents of What We Teach When We Teach DH

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Fitz (Jonathan D. Fitzgerald) @jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Dog Man does media criticism…

A couple pages from the graphic novel Dog Man making fun of the news media’s tendency to elevate the importance of clicks over truth

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Fitz (Jonathan D. Fitzgerald) @jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

Also, to celebrate its release (and my birthday) I made these custom Vans with my name on them (in case I forget, I guess?)

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