media ethics
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Read More: Laura Wexler, Chinese Photo, and Forced ForgettingLaura Wexler, the Chair of Women’s Studies at Yale and also an esteemed professor of American Studies and photo history, presented an amazing paper on Chinese photography this weekend at…
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Read More: Dear IckaprickSo the internet/web 2.0 allows you and I to meet, talk, and learn together, creating new communions and opportunities for weirdness (YouTube shares but does not OWN this). Hi and…
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Read More: On Iran Vέritέ
I’m a fan of Digital Poetics. I support his (and many bloggers) committed support and relay of people-made videos coming from Iran in the face of heightening censorship and oppression.…
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Read More: FatelessnessI just saw this 2005 film thanks to Netflix. I had recently read the book thanks to my friend Sarah. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aifZLtzLdU&hl=en&fs=1&] It’s hard for me to think about the work…
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Read More: The Safety Dance
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orukqxeWmM0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] My blog reader (Vienna) has been over-stuffed with videos of culture jams. The song above is thanks to Open Culture. “Last Thursday, in London’s Trafalgar Square, a big crowd…
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Read More: Hildebrand/Juhasz on Joanie 4 JackieI attended some of the “Media Studies in Southern California” conference sponsored last weekend by the Cultural Studies Department at Claremont Graduate University. I was most taken by my friend…
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Read More: Pacific Standard Time: Art of the Woman’s BuildingI just completed a grueling, intense, and edifying week of study with a team of feminist scholars who have been commissioned by Sue Mayberry and Meg Linton at Otis College…
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Read More: Back to School. 2 new sites!
Sad but true. Hard to muster, yes. But I can’t fairly complain; it’s not really decent. Boo hoo. I must return to work after 8 months on sabbatical. I’ll be…
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Read More: Beyond Visibility/Learning from GhanaI am recently returned from the OurMedia7 conference in Ghana, a loose network of international academics, activists, and professionals working in social justice/development/NGOs who have met seven times, annually, to…