MP:me
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Read More: Faking The FunkyI’ve wanted to write on Be Kind Rewind for awhile (its retro-futurist dreamings of a soft-n-sweet hand-made people’s media revolution), and I did get to do so a little bit…
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Read More: Mother Rites
Two CA mother/media events/projects of note: A blurb I wrote for one: “Birthright” carefully and lovingly engages a diverse group of mothers who collectively narrate the many joys, burdens, and…
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Read More: The Revolutionary Roads Less Travelled“Revolution is, in many people’s minds, more about ideals, wild hopes, romance; too many facts, and the world looks impossible to change. Che Guevara was literally the embodiment of the…
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Read More: Even Obama: Irony in the Time of YouTubeIf you’ve been following this blog, you know I put out a call for the community to help me find videos for my research for writing some upcoming talks about…
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Read More: Feminist Movement Media: Thoughts? (see previous post)Feminist Movement Media The second wave of the American women’s movement was an outgrowth of progressive organizing of the 1960s, including the civil rights, youth, and anti-war movements. Betty Friedan’s…
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Read More: Encyclopedia of Activist MediaShould I have said “Yes. Sure! I’ll write two entries”? Easy to say with so many months between me and the deadline. Then, I put them off to the last…
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Read More: Learning from Revolutionary Film
To the Editors, New York Times, I am currently teaching a course, Media Praxis, on the histories and theories of revolutionary cinema. While I greatly appreciate Terrence Rafferty’s Sunday, December…
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Read More: FakeTube: Join the Search![youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJSCS_KxYAk&hl=en&fs=1] I am MP:me. I use my laptop’s tiny camera, imovie, and YouTube to make and network small, “bad” videos as part of my femi-digi-praxis. In this attempt, I’m out…
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Read More: Bows and Flows: Composing your OwnFlow’s a big word these days. But people are using it differently: “Most media, like television, used to be a kind of flow. You’d sit down, you’d turn it on…