critical pedagogy
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Read More: Users Want Tosh(ers)
I was recently interviewed by Time magazine about the phenomenon of Tosh.0. Once again, my YouTube studies lead me to pop-analysis of cultural phenomena I had otherwise studiously avoided. But…
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Read More: Films for the Feminist Classroom: “The Owls”
FFFC, a new on-line journal that is a side-project of SIGNS, has just published my article, “A Lesbian Collective Aesthetic: Making and Teaching The Owls.” By including the written and…
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Read More: Contractual Mayhem: On the Absurdities of Moving from Paper to Digital in Academic Publishing
I am currently negotiating my contract with MIT Press to “publish” my “video-book” about YouTube this Fall. The enlightening, confusing, crazy, friendly, and productive conversations I am having with my…
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Read More: YouTube at 5: What’s it to you?
You probably watch it more than you did (15 mins/day according to LA Times.) You notice there are more ads, both before videos, and scattered around the page (yet they…
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Read More: The Losers: My Student’s a Winner (cross your fingers)
I had the thrilling adventure of getting to view the red-carpet premier of my long-ago student, Sylvain White‘s new campy genre-pic, The Losers at Graumann’s Chinese Theatre. Sylvain’s movie is…
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Read More: The Failures of Fred’s Fans: For Youth Media Symposium
This is some of my talk for “Sensory Communication: Expressive Culture and Youth Media” at UCSD, April, 2010. I will also present it to my CGU Cultural Studies Graduate course,…
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Read More: Praxis at Carnegie Mellon: Yet Another Blogged “Talk”
This is most of my talk for an upcoming Symposium, New Media: Theory, Practice, Power for Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Arts and Society focusing on creating fuller interaction…
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Read More: Sheila de Bretteville: Viva Participation & Process!
I have been watching a lot of forty year old videos of designer, teacher, and public artist, Sheila de Bretteville, as part of my research for my Women’s Building video…
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Read More: Learning from Huffington Post College
I was pleased to be informed by a staff member that Learning from YouTube was chosen as one of the “ten coolest college classes” by none other than the Huffington…
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Read More: Queer You(th) Tube Talk on YouTube on YouTube
Unfortunately, I can not make the Digital Media and Learning Conference occurring at UCSD February 18-20 because I’ll be in Berlin for the premier of THE OWLS. I have organized…