{"id":7251,"date":"2011-11-18T22:57:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T21:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2011-11-18T22:58:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T21:58:52","slug":"word-of-the-day-contestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7251","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: contestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the day at the University of Leicester attending a seminar on digital literacy where I made a short presentation on the regulation of content with the convergence of broadcasting and the Internet [see the text on which I based my remarks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/convergence.html\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Now most of the participants in the seminar were academics and they speak a special language. A word that academics love is &#8216;contest&#8217; &#8211; as a verb &#8216;to contest&#8217;, as an adjective &#8216;contestable&#8217; and &#8211; most grandly &#8211; as the noun &#8216;contestation&#8217;. Basically this is a fancy way of saying that an argument \u00a0or an idea can be challenged &#8211; and, of course, in academicia any notion can and is challenged.<\/p>\n<p>In the seminar, &#8216;contestation&#8217; was used twice &#8211; on both occasions by a professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the day at the University of Leicester attending a seminar on digital literacy where I made a short presentation on the regulation of content with the convergence of broadcasting and the Internet [see the text on which I based my remarks here]. Now most of the participants in the seminar were academics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-internet","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7254,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions\/7254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}