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     I meant to post something here sooner, but teaching duties have kept me busy recently.  Anyhow, welcome to members and watchers alike.  We've picked up more people than I expected to this quickly.  I'd really like to try and see this community take off, so I'll try to post thoughts or questions whenever I can - but I have no plans to overrun the community.  If you got something to ask or say, go for it.

    The first thing I thought we might discuss is what we'd all like to see happen here.  I originally thought it might be interesting to try tongue_bath   out as an online journal with open submissions, however it seemed unlikely that graduate students would want to risk putting their work out in a non-peer reviewed open forum.  For general questions about graduate student life or teaching issues, I've found that academics_anon and gradstudents serve me well. However, it can be hard to have a more subject-specific conversation there, and that's where I hope tongue_bath can find a space. 

  One thing to be aware of is the somewhat infamous Chronicle of Higher Education editorial by Ivan Tribble warning academics against blogging.  On the one hand it would be nice if we could start off by introducing ourselves to the community, but on the other hand, I don't want to be traced back to LiveJournal by a job committee.  It's something to consider, but I hope it doesn't cause anyone to reconsider joining this community.

  So, with this in mind, is there anything you all do or do not want to see happening here?
 

 

    I've started advertising the journal in a few communities.  If you're a member of a community that might have some potential members, feel free to help me out with this.  Also, if you have any suggestions for the community profile and interests list, let's hear them!

    I am the new maintainer of tongue_bath.  Previously it was just an unadvertised graduate film studies forum with few members.  Now it is still an unadvertised film forum with few members, but I'm going to broaden the audience to graduate students, post-grads and any faculty who might care to join.  Undergraduates and random hangers on are welcome to watch the community only.  The cinemastudies community is a good one if you want to talk about films but aren't an advanced scholar of film studies.  This community is intended for more specialized discussion.  Membership is open for now, so if you can fake it that's good enough.  However, any postings about filmmaking as opposed to film studies will be deleted at my discretion.

    Hopefully sometime soon I will revamp the community info page and start advertising for new members.  Once we have a few active members, we can discuss what kinds of topics we'd like to see here and what kind of moderating you'd prefer.  For now I moderate according to my whims.  Welcome to new and old members alike!