A combination of tweets and notes, archiving the #ASA2012 panel with Shelley Streeby, Curtis Marez, Chera Kee, Chris Cunningham, and Emma Perez.
Read more#ASA2012 panel notes: New Materialisms, Futurity, Speculative Realisms plenary
I’m continuing to post my notes from ASA panels, now that I’ve returned from the conference and have had a chance to fix the most egregious of the typoes. I’m…
Read more#ASA2012 panel transcript: What can digital humanities bring to American Studies? And vice versa?
I’m at the American Studies Association Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It’s an amazing experience, as ASA always is. I’ve become very committed to documenting the conferences I…
Read moreAcademic twitter: ethics and conversational nuance
Tweetchat on livetweeting at conferences led by @tressiemcphd. Issues covered–the nature of academia, privacy concerns, intellectual property theft. Also significant: Tressie’s follow up blog post http://tressiemc.com/2012/09/30/an-idea-is-a-dangerous-thing-to-quarantine-twittergate/
Read moreTwitterpated teaching
UWGB Convocation Session: A Storify narrative about using Twitter to teach students to be better, more visible, and relevant writers.
Read more3.5 minutes of distilled fannish joy
I just came back from VividCon, the fan vidding convention. (If you want to know what vidding is, click the tab above.) Vidders submit their vids to Vividcon months in…
Read moreLondon 2012: surprisingly sentimental
Like so many others all over the world, my media intake at the moment is fairly consumed by the Olympics. I didn’t plan on this; after following the terrifying militarization…
Read moreaqueducts: conversations and a small announcement
Among WisCon’s most exciting conversations was this panel: Imagining Radical Democracy, Practising Feminist Anarchy, documented by geek feminist poet Liz Henry. I organized and moderated the panel in the hope…
Read moreTheory, WisCon, chronicling: loosely linked observations
I’ve taken some time off the online academic grid recently, to spend time with family and friends as I celebrate my graduation and say goodbye to California. Now I’ve returned…
Read morepastures new
I’ve been sharing this news informally for a little while. But I just signed a contract, so it’s time to make my good news public. In the pit of wolves,…
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