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Read More: Guess Who’s Monetizing Now?I got a notice from Google on my “Learning from YouTube” YouTube channel. Apparently I passed some metric and have enough traffic to qualify to money-up with Google. While I…
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Read More: Teaching and Learning as MakingI will be beginning my talk for the Re:Humanities, an undergraduate conference on Digital Humanities run by students at Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr and Haverford, with these observations. There are certainly…
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Read More: Hunger/StudAttended a midnight premier of Hunger Games. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri6wRz_NjiA&w=560&h=315] Granted, not my usual fare. Because I live it, I don’t usually “study” teen culture (save for my Fred work.) I…
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Read More: Fred RantI have a piece, “Fred Rant,” in a stellar special issue of TWC on fan/remix video edited by Julie Levin Russo and Francesca Coppa, who write: “In this special issue,…
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Read More: A Trip to Boring
So, I’m sitting in my living room with Hugo on our relatively small but impressively flat new monitor, and my twelve-year old son comments, a minute or two in, that…
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Read More: Factiness: Lifespans of and Pissing Matches overJohn D’Agata, “author,” and Jim Fingal,” fact-checker’s” The Lifespan of a Fact is an initially intriguing, often funny, sometimes intellectually stimulating dialogue in the Socratic mode between a famous writer…
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Read More: Out in PublicI was driving home from the opening of Natalie Bookchin‘s amazing multi channel video installation, Now he’s out in public and everyone can see with fellow “video artists” Rachel Mayeri…
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Read More: Female Oscar Coasters
Over two years ago, I wrote these words about a female directed Oscar contending war film: “The film plays this war as it is—an emotional roller coaster of fear and…
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Read More: Writing ValuesIf you were required to make a video for a class that would get the most hits in a small amount of time, what qualities would you strive for? “S**t…
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Read More: Comments as Writing
My course, Learning from YouTube, advertises that all class assignments take the shape of YouTube videos or comments, hence pushing and challenging both the constraints of web 2.0’s platforms for…