The fifth HASTAC conference, HASTAC 2013: The Storm of Progress, is taking place in Toronto this weekend. I can’t be there, but Fiona Barnett, the amazing and wonderful director of…
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I had a wonderful and inspiring time at the Eaton/Science Fiction Research Association conference in Riverside last weekend. I want to start by posting my own paper, though, which I…
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While I was at the Eaton/SFRA conference on science fiction media this past weekend (of which more soon), the new Journal of e-Media Studies, a special issue on Computational Cultures…
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I haven’t posted here in a while; most of my blog-related energy has been going into my teaching. And this is not necessarily a queerly geeky post of the kind…
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I’m incredibly excited to announce a new project. I’ve been invited to guest-edit a special issue of the open access online journal Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and…
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This panel inspired some intensely heated discussions on Twitter. Knowing that the talks from these great speakers were likely to be complex and dense, I decided to make notes offline…
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As the year draws to a close and I celebrate the successful (I hope; still haven’t seen my student evals) completion of my first semester as an assistant professor, I’m…
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Teaching with Twitter. A cautionary tale?
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This is the last of the panels in which I typed frantic and exhaustive notes. As always, these are my interpretations and may be wrong––contact the panelists or look up…
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Another set of notes/transcripts from a wi-fi-less panel at American Studies. As before, these notes are my interpretation of the participants’ words and may be misguided. Contact them or read…
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