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Read More: Resolutions 3: Thinking Context, Place, and GenderI 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 BytesIn 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 CirclingSo, 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: You Say You Want a Revolution?
My course with a digital-presence, Media Praxis—one that focuses upon the historical, ethical and theoretical underpinnings of revolutionary media practices while attempting to find their legacy on-line—has left me feeling…
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Read More: Tweaking EnzenbergerIn his “Constituents of a Theory of the Media,” in The Consciousness Industry (1974), Hans Magnus Enzenberger describes a new media (“satellites, color television, cable relay television, casettes, videotape, videotape…
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Read More: Back to School. 2 new sites!
Sad but true. Hard to muster, yes. But I can’t fairly complain; it’s not really decent. Boo hoo. I must return to work after 8 months on sabbatical. I’ll be…
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Read More: Beyond Visibility/Learning from GhanaI 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…
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Read More: We’re Not in Kansas AnymoreI have been closely following the work of Michael Wesch, at Kansas State University, because he, like me, has been teaching a course about and also within YouTube. An anthropologist,…
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Read More: Learning from FredIn my ongoing life as minor YouTube pundit, I’ve been asked to reflect on the phenomena that is Fred for Teacher’s College Record. Given that I had not seen the…