media theory
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Read More: Watching the Detectives: The Future of WritingThis blog must be brief, mostly because I’m over-committed to other forms of writing, but I do want to make a few comments about the terrific conference I got to…
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Read More: On Video Writing[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGsi5na0JZI&hl=en&fs=1] This is the transcript (and written form) of a “talk” I will present at the Future of Writing Conference at UC Irvine, on Friday. It begins with the video…
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Read More: Resolutions 3: Thinking Context, Place, and GenderI had the pleasure of attending 2/3 days of this impressively large and diverse symposium organized by my friends and colleagues, Ming-Yuen Ma and Carol Stakenas from LACE. This post…
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Read More: DIY Dilemmas
I went to an inspiring talk by Ian Mackaye, of long-time punk and more recent Fugazi fame. Since the 1980s he’s quite successfully run an underground record label, played in…
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Read More: Circling Jenkins 2: Boobs and BytesIn the same Learning from YouTube class where two students presented their fake documentary about convergence culture and The Hills (see video, True Life: I’m addicited to ‘The Hills’ on-line…
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Read More: Pushing around Henry Jenkins: YouTube Criticism as Cynical CirclingSo, I’ve been teaching the second Learning from YouTube class this fall. The more normal one. The one with books. And lately, we’ve been reading Henry Jenkins’ Convergence Culture, after…
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Read More: Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube (free!)
Video Vortex about the book: The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video – from its explosive…
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Read More: Tweaking EnzenbergerIn his “Constituents of a Theory of the Media,” in The Consciousness Industry (1974), Hans Magnus Enzenberger describes a new media (“satellites, color television, cable relay television, casettes, videotape, videotape…
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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…
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Read More: We’re Not in Kansas AnymoreI have been closely following the work of Michael Wesch, at Kansas State University, because he, like me, has been teaching a course about and also within YouTube. An anthropologist,…