Yeah, you may have already guessed — or seen — my BitchBuzz column for this week. It’s up early, in fact I shot it off to my editor while I was [cough] not attending the faculty meeting. Hey, I had pressing news to cover! Considering the quick hits it got, I’m glad I did. Hat…
Category: technology
New Media and My Life
The big announcement today was Apple’s new tablet computer. I suspect there were no women on the design team, or else it wouldn’t have ended up with the name iPad (on a related note, a trending topic on Twitter: iTampon). I was teaching at the time of the announcement and joked with my students about…
BitchBuzz: Facebook Trains Us
My latest column for BitchBuzz is up. Sure, my greatest thrill is that I was able to work both Peter Cook and Groucho into the piece, but I am interested in the ways that we grow used to new technologies. Watching people cope with change is always instructive and I think the keepers of Facebook…
The Next Big Thing
Perhaps — it’s big in Japan, anyway and may well be big here soon: text novels. Yep, that’s right: a novel that’s sent bit by bit to your phone or mobile device. Charles Dickens, eat your heart out! My pal, Saranna DeWylde, has a couple of novels begun there, and told me I really need…
Social Media Breakfast–Tech Valley
Yesterday morning, much too early, I headed downtown to the Capital Rep Theatre, host of that morning’s Social Media Breakfast for the Tech Valley region. The lovely picture is from the CapRep stage: they’re currently deep into Shear Madness. Great set, eh? The featured speaker was Justin R. Levy, a PR/social media maven, who live-tweeted…
Housekeeping
I moved the serial blog, The Mangrove Legacy, to the “new” Blogger format, which is actually no longer new, in the hopes that it would make it easier to add things like “tweet this!” links and so forth. Hasn’t worked out that way, so I’m hesitant shift this blog over because of course there will…
BitchBuzz: Twitter as Performance
My latest piece for BitchBuzz which grew out of my presentation at the Great Writing Conference in Wales last month as well as my grad class, Literature, Performance and Visual Narrative. Nice Yoko picture to accompany it!
The Thing about Vampires
Teaching is all about planning + improvisation. You have to plan well and provide a structure, but it’s also important to roll with the vagaries of the unexpected. Today was a case for this kind of flexibility. After talking about the ambiguity that signaled the 1980s shift in horror films, we were all primed to…
Branding: Popular Culture and New Media
I’ll blog later about today’s class (featuring Texas Chainsaw Massacre and feminist film critique), but for the moment (and that’s about all I have) I want to get back to the difficult task of “branding” as we have come to call it. While I’m still resisting the labeling, I am trying to be more conscious…
BitchBuzz: 21st C Women’s Studies
Check out my latest piece for BitchBuzz where I try to focus on the duties I’ll be taking on as coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at my college. It’s going to be a challenge to revitalise the program as we had an off-year last year for a variety of reasons. My thought…
K. A. Laity 