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Read More: Feminist On/Offline Space ReflectionsThe semester has ended, and my intrepid USC students have completed their final projects, the hardest yet. They were asked to produce hybrid on/off line spaces incorporating the digital place…
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Read More: Teaching, Intellectuals, the Left, Families and Activism, with Toby MillerThe second pod of my interview with Toby Miller for his CulturalStudies podcast was just cast. This one ended up being pretty personal: about my family of lefty intellectuals, like…
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Read More: YouTube Re-Revolutions
Chuck Kleinhans sent me a link to “The YouTube Revolutions,” by David Kenner published recently in Foreign Policy. The piece, while admirable in ways I plan to detail shortly, beautifully…
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Read More: Distraction Span: Disjointed Rapidfire Thought Requested
My friend Brian Goldfarb and I just released Distraction Span: Technologies of Productive Disruption at MediaCommons. “With this cluster of The New Everyday we initiate a conversation about social media…
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Read More: We Walked OutAbout an hour into my course on Feminist Spaces Online a student informed us that an absent class member had just texted her suggesting that we should leave class and…
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Read More: Words of Online Feminists Of Color
“If I write race, I write it slant. I write it scat. I write it slipshod. I write it in the same manner I live it. Letting my work embody…
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Read More: Online Feminism Class Mid-term Reflections
My USC undergrads are great sports, engaging in innovative primary research and production for their course work for Online Feminist Spaces. They have to choose an online space for the…
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Read More: Anxiety Is a State of Media/Mind: On SCMS and Feminist BloggingI’ve returned from SCMS and Louisiana (having seen two alligators in the wild on a hike and eaten crawfish and shrimp in innumerable yummy formats) and would like to briefly…
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Read More: CulturalStudies with Toby Miller
Toby Miller, Chair of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside, chatted with me over tofu for his podcast, CULTURALSTUDIES. Since last summer, Toby has recorded meandering, lively and detailed…
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Read More: Playing the Sincerity Card in Cedar Rapids
Across this blog and throughout my video-book I’ve worried about the “ironic free-fall” currently defining video on YouTube and the mediascape more generally. I’ve suggested that the hold of the…