TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
(TrendHunter.com) What if Mark Menjivar came up to you right now and asked if he could take a picture of what’s inside your refrigerator? What would he find? Fresh foods, take-out containers, beer, soda, juice or barely…
GameSetWatch (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Art History of Games, a three-day Atlanta-based public symposium investigating games as an art form, has announced its February 2010 event. Organized by Georgia Tech Digital Media and SCAD Atlanta, the event will take place February 4-6 at Atlanta's Woodruff Arts Center. Along with several talks and Q&A sessions, The Art History of Games will premiere three commissioned games from Jason Rohrer...
The Ludologist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Art History of Games is a three-day public symposium in which members of the fields of game studies, art history and related areas of cultural studies gather to investigate games as an art form. Speakers include Ian Bogost, Brenda Brathwaite, Jesper Juul, Frank Lantz, Henry Lowood, Christiane Paul, John Romero, and more. Also featured in [...]
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
OK--students in my cultural studies course had a bit of a crisis because half of their presentation group dropped out. They are doing a presentation on the Goth subculture and the two members that dropped out were covering the music. So I offered to help out with an introduction to the roots of the Goth sound (as a non-expert)... here is what I came up with, anyone want to suggest additions? 1970s:...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Black, Lewis. On How America Isn't Number #1 ( Lewis Black on Broadway excerpt: Youtube Video posted April 15, 2007) Bruce, Lenny. "A Thinking Man's Comedian." (A Compilation posted on YouTube : September 2008) Buffy vs Edward (Twilight Remixed) (Remix: Jonathan McIntosh, June 19, 2009) Carlin, George. American Double Standard . ---. Baseball vs. Football . ---. "It's Called the American...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I just received this information about another journal you can send your creative work to and affix it below. (Please note that, whenever I post such information, I am only the messenger, and if you have questions or comments, please refer to the organisers.) IDEYA: JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES Volume 11. Number 2 (March/April 2010). Special Issue: Contemporary Writing in the Asia-Pacific Deadline for...
Welcome to Gawdeepah Spoken Word Joint (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
We have one hella exciting event coming up if you're interested in literature and cultural studies. Drum roll please. The Department of English Language and Literature is organising an international conference entitled "Imagined Communities Revisited: Identity, Nationalism and Globalisation in Asia Pacific Literatures and Cultures" which will kick off this Friday, 20th November 2009 and participation...
Tangled up in blue (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Handed over the keys to the old place this morning. I am officially moved. As soon as I'm unpacked I'm going to photograph the shit out of the new place and y'all can appreciate my impressive collection of posters from gigs and second-hand furniture. Audrey took a photo of me through the cracks in the walls at the old place, so you'll see I wasn't kidding or exaggerating about living in a hovel. Fall...
Refractory (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The concept of play has been a touchstone for cultural studies since the translation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s work on carnival (1968), a natural and liberating resistance to domination. As the neo-baroque constructs its spectacles, it requires a spectacular, unquestionable depiction of both Evil and the Good (Bather 2004). Articulated as it is with the markets [...]
Medical Humanities Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Conference: “Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies” November 19-20, 2010 McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Conference Co-Chairs: Sarah Brophy, Associate Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University Janice Hladki, Associate Professor, School...
LiveLaughLove (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Please excuse me whilst I indulge myself in saying How Proud I am of my boy, Jonathan Roy Gillingham. (seen here with his sister a couple of years back) He graduated on Friday 13th November 2009 in Bristol Cathedral. He now has a BA (Hons) in Film Studies and Media and Cultural Studies. He left home, here in Winchester, Hampshire to move to Bristol to attend the UWE . What a wonderful Uni this is if...
media studies (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I thought it was time to get the blog site going again so here goes: Here's a list of good blogs that you should keep looking at in order to gain more knowledge, to see what other students in other schools are doing, etc. http://www.longroadmedia.com/ Long Road 6th Form College - excellent stuff http://www.theory.org.uk/mediastudies2.htm - David Gauntlett - cultural studies http://www.guardian.co.uk/media...
Tinfish Editor's Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I have blogged on a couple of memos by UHM administrators in recent months. Now I find myself the author of memos. My latest to my department can be found here. Some glosses: DQs are "desirable qualifications"; our four departmental concentrations are Creative Writing (CW), Literary Studies (LSE), Cultural Studies (CS) and Composition and Rhetoric (CR). So, I am off to Australia tomorrow...
Hodges' Model: Welcome to the Quad (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Workshop: “Keywords of the Sociotechnical” Organizers: Steven Jackson, University of Michigan; David Ribes, Georgetown University; Sean Goggins, Drexel University We invite participation in the 2nd iConference Workshop on Sociotechnical systems, to be held prior to the iConference on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana-Champaign on February 3, 2010. To see “who we are”,...
Communication and Culture Online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
GLLC-G220 (26296) Global Celebrations (3 cr.) (S&H) (TR, 11:15-12:30 pm, FQ 012A) Audrey Ricke From Chinese New Year celebrations in California to Oktoberfest in Brazil, there is a growing popularity of celebrations outside their place of origin. This course will explore the political, economic, and social ramifications of the increase in this type of public celebration. Classroom readings, discussions,...
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