{"id":35642,"date":"2011-05-01T07:12:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T12:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=35642"},"modified":"2011-05-01T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:09:11","slug":"sociological-images-update-for-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/05\/01\/sociological-images-update-for-april-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociological Images Update for April 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gwen and I are finishing up our semesters and looking back at a wonderful year with all of you!<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We were granted an innovation in teaching award from\u00a0the Pacific Sociological Association and have been nominated for awards from the\u00a0American Sociological Association and\u00a0the Pop Culture \/ American Culture Association. \u00a0Plus David Mayeda\u00a0was kind enough to review us\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tso.sagepub.com\/content\/38\/4\/401.extract\" target=\"_blank\">Teaching Sociology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We started accepting proposals for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/07\/21\/instructions-for-guest-bloggers\/\">guest posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We broke the 10,000 friend barrier on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inbox\/?ref=mb#\/pages\/Sociological-Images-Seeing-Is-Believing\/8399768839?ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>. \u00a0(And we think over 3,500 on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/socimages\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> is nothing to shake a stick at.)<\/p>\n<p>We just barely almost didn&#8217;t quite reach 750,000 visits in one month. \u00a0But darn were we close!<\/p>\n<p>We entered a partial syndication agreement with the historic\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/msmagazine.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ms. magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We broke a story that ended with Abercrombie Kids pulling their push-up bikini top for kids. \u00a0Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/19\/push-up-bikini-tops-at-abercrombie-kids\/\">original post<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/01\/sociological-images-update-for-march-2011\/\">our summary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We managed to fool a few of you on April Fool&#8217;s Day (<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/01\/sociological-images-update-for-march-2011\/\">scroll to bottom<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And we let you all in on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/01\/sociological-images-update-december-2010\/\">the mystery that is Dmitriy T.M.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sociologists, Gwen and I will be at ASA, SWS, and SSSP this August.  So please say &#8220;hello&#8221; if you see us or look us up in the programs. We&#8217;ll be giving a talk or two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KUDOS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>Special thanks to Jon Smadja, Velanie Williams, Norma Morella for all their hard work on the blog. \u00a0We couldn&#8217;t do it without you.<\/p>\n<p>And thanks for reading everyone! \u00a0We&#8217;re looking forward to a productive summer and another record-breaking year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS: Gwen and I are finishing up our semesters and looking back at a wonderful year with all of you! 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