media theory
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Read More: NYU Culture and Media @ 20I made a quick trip to NY to attend the celebration for NYU’s Culture and Media Program which I participated in somewhat unofficially in its earliest years by taking the…
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Read More: Aca-Fandom: Who Me?Although not an aca-fan (or ACA fan dancer) myself, I engaged in a fun and serious conversation with Derek Kompare and Jay Bushman as part of Henry Jenkins’ summer-long conversation,…
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Read More: The Putative Black Lesbian Speaks
As it is wont to do, the blogisphere will tackle, pin-down, chew-up, devour, and spit out the story of the phony “lesbian blogger Amina” and her pseudo-lesbian editor, “Paula Brooks.”…
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Read More: Audiovisual ThinkingA collage of three video essays made by my Cultural Studies graduate students in CGU’s methods course, Visual Research Methods, has been published in Audiovisual Thinking: The Journal of Academic…
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Read More: THE NOWHERES & EVERYWHERE OF ONLINE FEMINISM
I am on sabbatical during the Spring of 2011. During this period of relative freedom, I plan to promote, network, and engage with my YouTube video-book (to be released February…
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Read More: Wiki-WalksI am learning much teaching Learning from YouTube again this semester. Last week I was educated by my students about this: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEbQ8Zk2Yb8&fs=1&hl=en_US] It couldn’t have come at a better time…
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Read More: Social Network: nah, I’ll watch “The Facebook Documentary” live, on-lineI’ve written extensively here about the mis-steps of the usually celebrated terrain of convergence: the too easy, sloppy, ill-conceived contemporary media moves between documentary, fiction, and hybrid back again. To…
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Read More: Nowhere and Everywhere: The Place of Feminism on YouTubeI gave a talk last week at Berkeley’s Gender Consortium that points towards the (non)place, and yet somehow real focus and locus, of my future work: the nowheres and everywheres…
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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…