{"id":4392,"date":"2013-02-28T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T05:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2013-02-28T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T05:18:07","slug":"virtual-brown-bag-series-mobilizing-inclusion-by-lisa-garcia-bedolla-and-melissa-michelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2013\/02\/28\/virtual-brown-bag-series-mobilizing-inclusion-by-lisa-garcia-bedolla-and-melissa-michelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Brown Bag Series: Mobilizing Inclusion by Lisa Garcia Bedolla and Melissa Michelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following announcement is from my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/polisci.unm.edu\/people\/faculty-profiles\/jessica-feezell.html\">Jessica Feezell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Tuesday, March 5th at 1:00 PST, the Western Political Science Association will launch their new bi-monthly \u201cVirtual Brown Bag\u201d series where we will discuss a new book written by authors affiliated with the WPSA. This Virtual Brown Bag will be hosted on a social video platform, Spreecast, where you can submit questions to the authors, \u201cchat\u201d with others in the audience, go on camera to engage \u201cface to face\u201d in the discussion, or simply sit back and watch.<br \/>\nThe first Virtual Brown Bag discussion will feature Dr. Lisa Garcia Bedolla &amp; Dr. Melissa R. Michelson, authors of Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate Through Get-Out-The-Vote Campaigns. You can find out more about their new book <a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/book.asp?isbn=9780300166781\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On March 5th, please join us! Better yet, if you are one of the first 10 people to RSVP to the Virtual Brown Bag and \u201cfollow\u201d the WPSA on Spreecast, the WPSA Social Media Task Force will send you a free copy of their new book compliments of the publisher. To RSVP, simply go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreecast.com\/events\/virtual-brown-bag-mobilizing-inclusion\">the event page<\/a>, establish a free account and click \u201cRSVP.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This initiative has emerged from a task force on social media convened by our regional association in Political Science.  For us it is an exciting experiment in the possibilities of creating scholarly conversation using new media tools.  We strongly encourage you to be part of the conversation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following announcement is from my colleague Jessica Feezell: On Tuesday, March 5th at 1:00 PST, the Western Political Science Association will launch their new bi-monthly \u201cVirtual Brown Bag\u201d series where we will discuss a new book written by authors affiliated with the WPSA. This Virtual Brown Bag will be hosted on a social video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4394,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}