Last week, I was invited to participate in the Composing Disability conference at George Washington University. Jonathan Hsy organized a wonderful panel titled Digitial Amphibians: Parallel Lives and Media Publics,…
Read moreI’m incredibly excited to announce that on October 2 and 3 2015, the University of Maryland Women’s Studies Department will host a gathering for scholars and practitioners doing gender, race,…
Read moreCreated to aid citation; only archives my (@alothian)’s tweets as I can’t search back far enough in the timeline for others.
Read moreAs I gear up for my first semester at the University of Maryland, I’m thinking a lot about academic and social positionings, offline and on. More particularly, about my own…
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 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 moreTeaching with Twitter. A cautionary tale?
Read moreI’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 moreThe Journal of Digital Humanities has just brought out its first issue. It includes a special section on the status of ‘theory’ in digital humanities, in which I’m very pleased…
Read moreAt MLA, Jentery Sayers gave a paper that cited the TransformDH Tumblr, which I previously linked at my post on digital praxis as theory––which Jentery also cited in his MLA…
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