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#transformDH Conference: Call for Video Contributions!

By Alexis Lothian June 2, 2015 Uncategorized

I’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,…

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Eaton/SFRA 2013: my talk on critical fandom

By Alexis Lothian April 19, 2013 Uncategorized

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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3.5 minutes of distilled fannish joy

By Alexis Lothian August 16, 2012 Uncategorized

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…

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Digital scholarship, vidding, and risk

By Alexis Lothian September 26, 2011 Uncategorized

The current issue of Camera Obscura contains a short essay Kristina Busse and I wrote on “Scholarly Critiques and Critiques of Scholarship: the Uses of Remix Video.” We discussed the…

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A video about vidding

By Alexis Lothian August 11, 2010 Uncategorized

Earlier this year, Anita Sarkeesian of the blog Feminist Frequency invited Julie Levin Russo and I to give a talk on vidding as part of an event on “Remixing Gender…

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Digital Media and Learning

By Alexis Lothian February 21, 2010 Uncategorized

I spent the weekend in a state of gleeful intellectual overstimulation, at the Digital Media and Learning Conference at UC San Diego. The theme was ‘diversifying participation,’ and most of…

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New media and old institutions: 2

By Alexis Lothian February 7, 2009 fandom, media

I’ve written about vidding quite a lot on this blog. It’s an artform that is getting steadily more attention: as one facet of the web’s enabling of grassroots, amateur filmmaking,…

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Fair use and scholarly vidding

By Alexis Lothian October 27, 2008 Uncategorized

Today I attended the Fair Use and the Future of the Commons event sponsored by the USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy. Veronica Paredes is hosting a related discussion at HASTAC.…

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Visual thinking

By Alexis Lothian February 16, 2008 fandom

I’m a words person. I can’t remember that ever not being true. Not just a sentences person, a meanings person, a linguistic semiotics person, though all of those too, but…

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DIY Video conference

By Alexis Lothian February 6, 2008 media

This weekend, I am excited to be attending the 24/7 DIY Media Summit at USC. All day Friday and Saturday, there are screenings of assorted sorts of amateur video —…

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Alexis Lothian

Associate Professor in The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studes; Core Faculty in Design Cultures and Creativity; Affiliate Faculty in American Studies, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. University of Maryland College Park

Author, Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility (NYU Press, 2018)

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