A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Violence in the online gaming community.
Read moreThis first installment of a multi-part series draws on Michel Foucault’s “ethical living,” and Charles Sanders Pierce’s “habit-change” to offer a way to think about the possibility of changing habitual ways of being in the mobile present.
Read moreThe slipperiest of activities: reading’s relationship to bodies, devices, symbols, and environments.
Read moreTechnology, social progress, and the metaphor of nature.
Read moreDisjunctures between representations of gay couples and age.
Read moreAn analysis of queer representation on The Walking Dead.
Read moreA discussion of how neoliberal discourses have re-inscribed children into marketplace-oriented gender roles.
Read moreProject Glass is an ongoing research project at Google’s super-secret Google X lab to produce augmented reality glasses.
Read moreOn Modern Family, Vergara’s award-winning performance of Latina spitfire Gloria affirms the show’s nostalgic representation of white masculinity, helping to soothe racial anxieties through a familiar figure of domestic Latina femininity. At the same time, Vergara’s complex representation of Latina motherhood also provides a unique moment of visibility, creating a rupture in the show’s narrative of white resentment.
Read moreAn in depth look at the science of Haptics and touchscreens.
Read moreThe Boondocks and Tyler Perry’s universe.
Read moreA consideration of heteronormative trends in Disney’s The Little Vampire.
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