media studies
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Read More: Digital Humanities
I am spending a month at USC’s NEH Vector‘s Institute, Broadening the Digital Humanities. 11 scholars are given the incredible opportunity to develop digital projects through the generous technical and…
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Read More: “Women of Vision” on snagfilms
This is a three-part series on feminist media history from the late 80s. There’s also a book!
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Read More: Avant Avant-Doc: Painleve goes to the Woman’s Building
I’m stuck in Peoria. Really. Trying to get home for my daughter’s birthday dinner (I failed. argh) after participating in an invigorating conference that attended to intersections of avant-garde and…
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Read More: 5 Lessons of YouTube: Published Here and There
My article has been recently published in two places: Cinema Journal, and a new digital publication, The International Journal of Learning and Media. In both cases, I’ve been working with…
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Read More: Even Obama: Irony in the Time of YouTube
If 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: Losing Community in the Video Archive: My Final Tour
At last the tours are through! While I found them increasingly tedious, they did prove a useful exercise in that I made some sense of the hundreds of videos my…
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Read More: The Owner/User Dialectic: TOUR #5
The user is told she is free, but this is not the case. Nowhere near it. She makes work in forms that best serve the master’s (oops) owner’s needs. Her…