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The Most Objective “Best of 2012″ List Ever, Part III: Social Media
Earlier this week I posted “Part I: Television” and “Part II: Memes” of “The Most Objective ‘Best of 2012′ List Ever.” There doesn’t seem to be much enthusiasm for these highly idiosyncratic “Best Of”...
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MTV Reality Programming & the Labor of Identity Construction
Note to the reader: Below is a work in progress. I am sharing it here in the hopes of generating discussion and recommendations for further reading and research. American children born after 1980 are...
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Smash Talkin: A Roundtable on the SMASH Season 2 Premiere
This roundtable, focusing on the season 2 premiere of NBC’s Smash (which aired on February 5th), arose in response to a recent article “How “Smash” Became TV’s Biggest Train Wreck” by Kate Arthur....
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“To Dance Again!”: Affect, Genre, and the HARRY POTTER Franchise
This week I attended the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Chicago. I decided to share the paper I presented there as part of the panel, “Affect in the Age of Transmedia...
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Teaching this Old Horse some New Teaching Tricks
This semester I have experimented a lot with my teaching and classroom policies. While implementing new policies certainly adds more work (and frustration) to an already busy semester, my hope is to...
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Congratulations! It’s a Beautiful Baby Blog!
Some people have their first child and then decide “This is quite enough excitement for me.” Other people think “I want five of these!” It’s the same with long-running projects (kind of). I started...
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A True Story About Being White
Editor’s note: I apologize for my long absence, dear readers, but I started a true story blog back in May, Tell Us A Story, and that has monopolized all of my summer blogging time. I promise to return...
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I Sat Through all of the 1D Documentary and All I Got was this Lousy Blog Post
7-year-olds are cultural omnivores, taking in everything around them. It’s only later that they sort through what they’ve accumulated to figure out what they like and don’t like. Right now, my...
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GHOSTBUSTERS as Neoliberal AltAc Fantasy
Normally, I’m not a big fan of rewatching films I’ve already seen. I have to do so much rewatching for my classes and for my research that in my free time my goal is to see new stuff. Nevertheless,...
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Miley Cyrus and Feminist In-Fighting
Baby, you know I love you. I do. I think about you all the time, even when I’m too busy to spend time with you. But, baby, sometimes Mama likes to write for other blogs. Now that doesn’t mean that Mama...
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Elan Gale, Diane in 7A Never Asked to Be Part of Your Reality Show OPINION
On Thanksgiving Day, Elan Gale, a reality TV show producer, boarded a flight from Los Angeles to Phoenix. The flight was delayed, prompting some of the passengers to complain. Flying on a holiday is...
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The Most Objective “Best of 2012″ List Ever, Part III: Social Media
Earlier this week I posted “Part I: Television” and “Part II: Memes” of “The Most Objective ‘Best of 2012′ List Ever.” There doesn’t seem to be much enthusiasm for these highly idiosyncratic “Best Of”...
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My Mom’s 2014 Oscar Picks
Most bloggers publish their Oscar picks hours, or at the latest, days, after the nominations are announced. Because that’s when most people are interested in hearing about Oscar picks – before the...
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The Postfeminist Gift of Gwen Stacy, or Gwen Stacy is SOME PIG!
When my 4-year-old son asked me if I would take him to see The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Marc Webb) on Memorial Day, I’ll admit that I wasn’t even aware the sequel (to the reboot) had been released. I was...
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Everyone’s a Little Bit Rapey?
Let’s get this out of the way: I love Louis CK. I’ve watched (and enjoyed) all of his stand up concert films and every episode of his FX series, Louie. Louis CK’s humor appeals to me because it makes...
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(Aca) Blogs are Like Assholes…
You’ve heard the joke, right? There are over 152,000,000 blogs on the internet. And in one small corner of the internet are the academic blogs, the aca-blogs. I define “aca-blogs” as blogs written and...
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No End in Sight: Academic Research and “Time Off”
“Can you read these words to me, Amanda?” my first grade teacher asked, pointing at the cover of The Wheedle on the Needle. I shook my head and smiled, thinking this was some kind of trick. How the...
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Notes on a Riot
Like many professors, I live on the same campus where I work. As a result, I’ve watched drunk East Carolina University students urinate and puke on my lawn and toss empty red solo cups into the...
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Tell Us A Story is Back!
I don’t usually cross post between blogs, but since Tell Us A Story returns today from summer vacation, I wanted to give them a shout out. I also wanted to encourage all of you readers to submit your...
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Understanding Your Academic Friend: Job Market Edition
“If you and your spouse don’t like living 400 miles apart, why don’t you just get jobs at the same university?” “You miss living near your mom? Well, there are like 5 colleges in her town — just work...
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