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,…
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 moreI 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 moreThe 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…
Read moreEarlier 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…
Read moreI 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…
Read moreI’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,…
Read moreToday 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.…
Read moreI’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…
Read moreThis 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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