Eaton/SFRA 2013: my talk on critical fandom
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…
Read moreI 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…
Read moreWhile 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…
Read moreI 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…
Read moreI’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…
Read moreThis 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…
Read moreAs 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…
Read moreTeaching with Twitter. A cautionary tale?
Read moreThis 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…
Read moreAnother 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…
Read moreA combination of tweets and notes, archiving the #ASA2012 panel with Shelley Streeby, Curtis Marez, Chera Kee, Chris Cunningham, and Emma Perez.
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