digital media form
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Read More: Faujinsky
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dwA2dulwlQ&hl=en&fs=1&] “And then there is…the postmodernists, lets call them, who know that Comte’s postings are fake but like them anyway.” Joan Acocella I’ve been considering for awhile now that as…
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Read More: Fig Trees
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndsdXJWksp0&hl=en&fs=1&] I had the lucky opportunity to watch Fig Trees and then speak with John Greyson about this complicated, funny, intellectual and political film that somehow links documentary interviews of…
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Read More: No More Potlucks
nomorepotlucks.org presents: no. 4 Juillet-August theme: “copie” The Increasingly Unproductive Fake Alexandra Juhasz Dump Gay Marriage Now Yasmin Nair Getting Messy and Complicated with Dana Inkster Dayna McLeod (Colonial) Archives…
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Read More: On the “Susan Boyle Experience”
I think Virgina Heffernan is really smart, and look forward to her weekly NYT columns. However, I take some small exception to her recent thoughts on the “Susan Boyle Experience.”…
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Read More: On Iran Vέritέ
I’m a fan of Digital Poetics. I support his (and many bloggers) committed support and relay of people-made videos coming from Iran in the face of heightening censorship and oppression.…
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Read More: Dueling Banjos
I get this eerie, bored feeling that internet scholars play but don’t listen. Myself included. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8&hl=en&fs=1&] Where boosters see roses: See Howard Rheingold, Vernacular Video in Culture and Education. Snarks…
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Read More: 5 Lessons of YouTube: Published Here and There
My article has been recently published in two places: Cinema Journal, and a new digital publication, The International Journal of Learning and Media. In both cases, I’ve been working with…
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Read More: Faking The Funky
I’ve wanted to write on Be Kind Rewind for awhile (its retro-futurist dreamings of a soft-n-sweet hand-made people’s media revolution), and I did get to do so a little bit…
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Read More: Even Obama: Irony in the Time of YouTube
If you’ve been following this blog, you know I put out a call for the community to help me find videos for my research for writing some upcoming talks about…
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Read More: FakeTube: Join the Search!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJSCS_KxYAk&hl=en&fs=1] I am MP:me. I use my laptop’s tiny camera, imovie, and YouTube to make and network small, “bad” videos as part of my femi-digi-praxis. In this attempt, I’m out…