praxis
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Read More: Bad Video: From meaning to feeling, YouTube Tour #4
In my Tour #4, The Vernacular, Visual and the Vlog, I propose that there are two dominant forms of video YouTube: the vlog, characterized by its poor quality and vox…
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Read More: TOUR #3: PopularityI posted my third tour today–on popularity–so, yes another tour, but this is the first where I wore a paper-crown and prom dress… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-XuCRO1Ecw&rel=1] I guess you can see, I’m…
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Read More: TOUR #2, Entertainment: Humor, Spectacle, Self-ReferentialityI posted my second tour today, on entertainment on YouTube. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIaxxxECszE&rel=1] (note the goofy performance: trying to be lively…YouTube entertainment does rely on quality performance) This was the first thing…
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Read More: Beginning Thoughts on the Six Binaries indicated in TOUR #1
Thinking through education on YouTube, after teaching a class using its many resources and even greater limitations, I found that the specificity of the site, and some of the features…
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Read More: Reflections on Building TOUR #1
As I built the fist tour, on education, I was working from an outline I had created for a talk (which will, in fact, be the tour) that I am…
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Read More: HeroismI recently attended the festival screening of my friend, Ellen Spiro’s amazing documentary, “Body of War,” which she shot and directed with Phil Donahue (yes that Phil Donahue). It was…
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Read More: YouTube, Popularity, Inanity, Fun!
So, after the class decided to study “popularity” on YouTube–my students making an end-run on my best intentions for the course (which were to hi-jack YouTube to make it work…
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Read More: Chicago SCALE RoundtableTwo weeks ago, we held a summit on the organizing and distribution possibilities of my documentary, SCALE, generously sponsored by a Chicago feminist media and arts organization and attended by…
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Read More: Learning from Learning from YouTube mid-wayMid-way through the semester, and I’m pleased to report how much we’ve actually learned, albeit experientially, through doing (and not doing) while stuck in all that is powerful and inane…
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Read More: #1 SCALE screeningOn Thursday, October 4, we had our first work-in-progress screening of SCALE fro a friendly audience at the Claremont Colleges, where I teach. Antonia made it, as did representatives of…