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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: Mogul is De- and Re-Mobilized
I’ve worked with, written about, and been a fan of the work of Susan Mogul for quite awhile. A early practitioner of feminist video via her radical education at the…
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Read More: Documentary Dıspatch from TurkeyI have been tourıng Istanbul, wındıng down on wındıng roads from the jam-packed Vısıble Evıdence conference (on documentary). I can’t do justıce to the many strong panels I saw: testıment…
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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: AIDS Video and CensorshipMy article, “AIDS Video: To Dream and Dance with the Censor” has been recently published at Jump Cut. I had been asked to speak about the history of AIDS video…
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Read More: Contractual Mayhem: On the Absurdities of Moving from Paper to Digital in Academic PublishingI 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: Ka-Kinda Busy[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHXgFU7qNI&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Hello, hello baby. I’m kinda busy right now and don’t have the mental or maybe psychic energy to draw all the links between pop music, homo-erotic war-play, ritual violence,…
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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: Babies are People!
“Mommies are people. People with children. When mommies were little they used to be kids, like some of you, but then they grew, and now mommies are women: women with…
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Read More: Banksy v Welles
I liked Exit Through the Gift Shop well enough. Its bad-boy, Euro-trash pranksters bite their thumbs at the art-world that feeds them by playfully manufacturing a hoax-star doppleganger forger from…