I hate to admit this but I expect more from technology and less from my peers. Sherry Turkle’s TED talk investigates how this is psychologically feasible and (probably) terrible. Does texting and technology short change us as human with emotions, desires and goals? Here she argues that texting, Facebook messaging and email allow us to escape from being emotionally available to ourselves and others and… Read more →
How I would love to see an itemized bill for certain expenses. Like where tax dollars go. How much celebrities spend on trainers. And what kind of math the girl on the subway used to buy a $4,000 Celine bag but wasn’t able to come up with “some ways to start saving money”. I’ve always wondered how much logo and… Read more →
It’s a delayed blog post today thanks to Daniel Tosh who, after being heckled by a female audience member, suggested it would be funny if she were gang raped. The media has been all over this story and my feminist media monitoring colleagues have written some great pieces, drawing parallels between rape jokes and a culture where rape is acceptable… Read more →
The following essay, posted here in its entirety, was originally published in the Spring 2012 issue of Transformative Works and Cultures. Here I argue that remix is a queer act and caution that, as the entertainment industry begins to add queer characters to mainstream texts, the available subtext that remix works depend on is threatened. The curated video selection is available here. Appropriation… Read more →
Last weekend, an interesting question was asked after my presentation during “Hacking the Classroom (with the amazing Virginia Kuhn) at Mobility Shifts: International Future of Learning Summit. I’m paraphrasing here but the gist was: “After all those lectures on remix and media literacy, my students made a video that didn’t say much of anything. What do I do?” Two solutions: 1…. Read more →
Where men help with the child care! Where barriers to technology are invisible! A day when the internet works when and where you want it to. A time where everything is a touch screen. A future where there’s no limits to accessing entertainment and cultural texts. And a future where we all live in glass houses, and thus, can’t throw… Read more →
