digital media form
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Read More: Bows and Flows: Composing your Own
Flow’s a big word these days. But people are using it differently: “Most media, like television, used to be a kind of flow. You’d sit down, you’d turn it on…
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Read More: Watching the Detectives: The Future of Writing
This 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 Gender
I 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: Circling Jenkins 2: Boobs and Bytes
In 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 Circling
So, 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: Beyond Visibility/Learning from Ghana
I 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…