web 2.0
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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: For Neda: Verite in Context[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F48SinuEHIk&hl=en_US&fs=1&] While I’d be the first to admit that For Neda is not a particularly “good” documentary, in that it does not deliver many (or any) of the complex and…
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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: Lady Professor Sings the Blues
My last post skirted the issue, saying I was “too busy” to perform my professorial labors properly: the hard work of “unpacking” lady Gaga. Ha. I’d actually taught the video…
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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: The Failures of Fred’s Fans: For Youth Media SymposiumThis is some of my talk for “Sensory Communication: Expressive Culture and Youth Media” at UCSD, April, 2010. I will also present it to my CGU Cultural Studies Graduate course,…
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Read More: Reality Hunger: Shields’ Formal Run DownYou could say I “read” David Shield’s Reality Hunger over the weekend, but as my first nod to the worthy successes (and ballsy failures) of his argument-through-form, I actually skimmed…