Re-framing Google Glass
J. Macgregor Wise/Arizona State University
Where Google’s OK Glass fits in the universe of personal photography.
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Re-framing Google Glass
“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”: Troubling the Visual Optics of Race
Isabel Molina-Guzmán / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Isabel Molina-Guzman discusses the messiness associated with defining race in America.
Read moreDownton Abbey and Mad Men: The End of the World as We Know It
Kristen Hatch / University of California Irvine
A consideration of the comfort that comes from watching television shows that dramatize the world’s end.
Read moreParkives: Tomorrow’s Residual Media…Today
J.D. Connor / Yale University
Amusements and archives of narrative and sensation.
Read moreIconic Television and Pathos
Gerald R. Butters, Jr./Aurora University
Gerald Butters explores the changing landscape of television events since the advent of fractured audiences and the explosion of broadcast delivery options.
Read moreBanishing Phantoms from the Skin: ‘Vibranxiety’ and the Pathologization of Interfacing
David Parisi / College of Charleston
What are some of the new psycho-physiological issues that come from our attachment to media devices?
Read moreBlind Spots: Religion in Media Studies
Erica Robles-Anderson / New York University
A discussion of the ongoing media project of Protestantism and the centrality of religion to the project of social theory.
Read moreWhat Should We Call Reading?
Mara Mills / New York University
The slipperiest of activities: reading’s relationship to bodies, devices, symbols, and environments.
Read moreThrough the Looking Glass with Google
J. Macgregor Wise/Arizona State University
Project Glass is an ongoing research project at Google’s super-secret Google X lab to produce augmented reality glasses.
Read moreMobile Mediality
Mimi Sheller / Professor of Sociology, Drexel University
Considering the sensory multiplicities of “smart” mobile devices.
Read moreDirect-to-Consumer-Advertising and the Archipelago of Medicalization Black Hawk Hancock / DePaul University
Patients and consumers adrift in a sea of groundless for-profit medicalization.
Read more Gaycoms in a Progressive Age?: Partners and The New Normal
Stephen Tropiano / Ithaca College
Obama, Partners, The New Normal, and the question of marriage equality.
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