Robert Tynes
Biographic Data
| ID | 6598946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Tynes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Tynes |
| SIGNATURE | TYNES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bard College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0201-4337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
American-Made Child Soldiers
In America, there is a pervasive social force constantly at work, reinforcing the norm that children should be soldiers. With the U.S. case, we see that it takes a society to produce children on the battlefield, and that American culture is weakening the global norm against child soldiering. American schools, summer camps, and media are generating narratives that help soldier the minds of children. The U.S. case highlights the importance of looki…
The Effects of College in Prison and Policy Implications
Despite the policy relevance of college-in-prison, the existing research on these programs has important flaws, failing to address selection and self-selection bias. We address an important policy question: what are the effects of college-in-prison program? To do this, we provide the largest study published to-date of a single college-in-prison program. We analyze the effects of the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) in New York, a liberal arts program…
Gavin McInnes’s hate machine
At first, the Proud Boys were a seemingly innocuous white boys club that sprouted from the banter and riffs of online talk show host, Gavin McInnes. But the far right group grew into a nation-wide white supremacist organization. The group came about, thanks to McInnes and his The Gavin McInnes Show (TGMS). The Proud Boys and Gavin McInnes are a prime case study of the problem of free speech and the Internet. Here we see hate speech hiding behind …
Democracy's Savior or Citizen Spy
Pursuance and the Practice of De-Institutionalized Democracy
The internet offers the possibility of forming de-institutionalized, organizational structures that engage in the democratic process in ways that go far beyond volunteering, protesting, or voting. The digital space enables people to collaborate and communicate with one another more effectively, even if they have never met in real life (Shirky 2009). Formations such as Telecomix and Project PM show that this capability can be harnessed in the serv…
Fncking With White Frames: Teejayx6 Scam Raps the Digital
Teejayx6 is a scam rapper from Detroit who puts to shame the notion that the internet is a cyberspace frontier where you can be all you wanna be. Instead, he presents it as a rich field to be harvested, and through his music provides insights about race and the internet. Ever since Kolko et al. (2000) published $2 , internet studies has tried to tease out how race plays out on the internet. But, as scholar Jessie Daniels (2012) shows, the field h…
Nation-building and the diaspora on Leonenet: A case of Sierra Leone in cyberspace
The nation-state of Sierra Leone crumbled during the 1990s. A decade-long civil war destroyed the state and brutalized the national imaginings. Despite the lack of institutional structure, some members of its society chose to keep the nation alive through discourse on a listserv, an email forum called Leonenet. Using a multi-methodological approach that incorporated content analysis, interviews with cultural informants, ethnography and participan…
US counter-terrorism policies in Africa are counter to development
Extracted from text ... US counter-terrorism policies in Africa are counter to development Robert Tynes* * Robert Tynes is a faculty member of Language and Thinking at Bard College and a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York, Albany. Terrorism is the central threat to the world today. At least that's the way the US government sees it. According to the Bush administ…
Nation-building and the diaspora on Leonenet: A case of Sierra Leone in cyberspace
The nation-state of Sierra Leone crumbled during the 1990s. A decade-long civil war destroyed the state and brutalized the national imaginings. Despite the lack of institutional structure, some members of its society chose to keep the nation alive through discourse on a listserv, an email forum called Leonenet. Using a multi-methodological approach that incorporated content analysis, interviews with cultural informants, ethnography and participan…
Democracy's Savior or Citizen Spy
US counter-terrorism policies in Africa are counter to development
Extracted from text ... US counter-terrorism policies in Africa are counter to development Robert Tynes* * Robert Tynes is a faculty member of Language and Thinking at Bard College and a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York, Albany. Terrorism is the central threat to the world today. At least that's the way the US government sees it. According to the Bush administ…
Nation-building and the diaspora on Leonenet: A case of Sierra Leone in cyberspace
The nation-state of Sierra Leone crumbled during the 1990s. A decade-long civil war destroyed the state and brutalized the national imaginings. Despite the lack of institutional structure, some members of its society chose to keep the nation alive through discourse on a listserv, an email forum called Leonenet. Using a multi-methodological approach that incorporated content analysis, interviews with cultural informants, ethnography and participan…
Pursuance and the Practice of De-Institutionalized Democracy
The internet offers the possibility of forming de-institutionalized, organizational structures that engage in the democratic process in ways that go far beyond volunteering, protesting, or voting. The digital space enables people to collaborate and communicate with one another more effectively, even if they have never met in real life (Shirky 2009). Formations such as Telecomix and Project PM show that this capability can be harnessed in the serv…
Fncking With White Frames: Teejayx6 Scam Raps the Digital
Teejayx6 is a scam rapper from Detroit who puts to shame the notion that the internet is a cyberspace frontier where you can be all you wanna be. Instead, he presents it as a rich field to be harvested, and through his music provides insights about race and the internet. Ever since Kolko et al. (2000) published $2 , internet studies has tried to tease out how race plays out on the internet. But, as scholar Jessie Daniels (2012) shows, the field h…
The Effects of College in Prison and Policy Implications
Despite the policy relevance of college-in-prison, the existing research on these programs has important flaws, failing to address selection and self-selection bias. We address an important policy question: what are the effects of college-in-prison program? To do this, we provide the largest study published to-date of a single college-in-prison program. We analyze the effects of the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) in New York, a liberal arts program…
Gavin McInnes’s hate machine
At first, the Proud Boys were a seemingly innocuous white boys club that sprouted from the banter and riffs of online talk show host, Gavin McInnes. But the far right group grew into a nation-wide white supremacist organization. The group came about, thanks to McInnes and his The Gavin McInnes Show (TGMS). The Proud Boys and Gavin McInnes are a prime case study of the problem of free speech and the Internet. Here we see hate speech hiding behind …
Democracy's Savior or Citizen Spy
American-Made Child Soldiers
In America, there is a pervasive social force constantly at work, reinforcing the norm that children should be soldiers. With the U.S. case, we see that it takes a society to produce children on the battlefield, and that American culture is weakening the global norm against child soldiering. American schools, summer camps, and media are generating narratives that help soldier the minds of children. The U.S. case highlights the importance of looki…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · The Internet (3 works)