Yes, it seems a real shame that some people would rather entirely leave/unsubscribe from the MECCSA discussion group, instead of deleting unwanted emails (admittedly a lot, in this specific case) or 'muting' them as Gabriel suggests, so they don't arrive in the first place (or moving to digest as I think Lee Salter suggested earlier). There are options open to you instead of leaving entirely. One person even noted people were probably sending "unsubscribe" emails to the entire membership to express that they felt "angry and helpless" at this ongoing thread . . . Seriously? "I am angry and helpless due to a discussion about the mediation of a socio-political situation on a message group devoted to the discussion of media, culture and communication!" An odd thing to get angry about
And the 'please take this discussion somewhere else' objections - Jo Knowles nailed that very well. Virtually all of the discussion - even though some of it got heated and (borderline) personal in some ways - was to do with a political situation and how it is (mis)communicated and (mis)mediated. As I said in an earlier post, I am not sure why this is *not* appropriate for an association that has the words 'Media', 'Communication' and 'Cultural' in its title.
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From: Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Gabriel Moreno <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Instructions on how to unsubscribe
I think Prof. Sandvoss email is great, those who feel overwhelmed by unwanted emails, or spam, as erroneously described, could simply mute the unwanted emails with a couple of clicks here and there in your email platforms, whether web- or client-based. It just requires a bit of media literacy, which should be a default element of know-how for media and communication specialists.
Gabriel
On 31 July 2014 11:32, Cornel Sandvoss <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I will make a more substantive contribution to this important discussion when I have a chance later tonight, but in the meantime: the way to unsubscribe from mailing lists because you object to the volume of traffic, is little surprisingly not by adding to that traffic and telling everyone on the list that you wish to unsubscribe, but to follow the instructions (or spend two seconds on google to find the instructions). For those not familiar with the workings of mailing lists nor search engines, they can be found here:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/subscribers/groupsubscriptions.html
I am happy to see and read anyone's however contrary views - just those public announcements of a lack of computer literacy are - while an old classic on the MeCCSA mailing list - a bit tiresome.
Thank you,
Cornel
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From: Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Patti Gaal-Holmes <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Sent: 31 July 2014 11:11
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Count me in please
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And me
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On 31 Jul 2014, at 10:56, "Julian Petley" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Count me in too.
Best, Julian.
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Thanks Gabriel, and of course! Count me in. I will also mail this to the MECCSA people who have expressed interest but are not yet part of this group.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Gabriel Moreno <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hi Ann,
Sorry for the late reply. I seem to agree with many in that that continuing to use this thread for this particular discussion is a statement about the requirement for openness that should be expected from an association like MeCCSA.
That said, it appears as though many of us are hungry for more free intellectual and academic debate, even when it goes somewhat astray from traditional civility rules. With this in mind, I have taken myself the liberty to start the hash tag #BehindTheNewsFromGaza in the Diaspora social network.
I have chosen Diaspora because it's a non-for-profit social platform. I chose the Socializer pod, based in Germany, as this should afford an adequate data protection policy framework.
Those interested in joining should only sign up. The sign up process is very straightforward, and so is using the platform itself. The sign up link is available at: https://socializer.cc/users/sign_up
Do you think you could send an email to the list inviting those interested to use this platform for this and future discussions?
Best wishes,
Gabriel
On 30 July 2014 16:29, Ann Overbergh <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
If any of you plan on continuing this discussion on another platform outside MECCSA, please let me know as I'd like to stay involved. This simple mailstring here could be such platform, however we'd be excluding people who have not contributed and wish to keep following. This is not a time to be silent; I'd be very interested in continuing to read different views, arguments, info and literature.
Greetings,
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