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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: On YouTubeWe held our first class on-line, off-classroom, on YouTube, on Tuesday. What a failure! And it’s YouTube’s fault… The comments function on the site is neither real-time or synchronous (like…
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Read More: Slogan Nine
“The more we assert our own identities as historically marginalized groups, the more we expose the tyranny of a so-called center.” Pratibha Parmar [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNh4kdSsBoY&rel=1] YouTube serves the de-centering mandate of…
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Read More: Editing SCALE 3August 8, 2007 Back home after a month in Columbus OH defined, in the end, by the concerns addressed in my earlier posts: what it means to be an artist-on-my-own…
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Read More: Slogan Eight
“What is in question is not the expression of some lost origin or some uncontaminated essence in black film-language but the adoption of a critical voice that promotes consciousness of…