My #SCMS13 Presentation
ETA: Some people are being told that they’re “forbidden” to view the Prezi. Not sure what’s going on with that, since it is working for me (even in a different browser than is logged in). But,...
View ArticleTwitter, Labor, and Self-Branding
This post is inspired in large part by Suzanne Scott’s post Distanced Learning: SCMS as MOOC (massively open online conference)?, which (amidst a larger argument) described how the Twitter feed (and...
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The Veronica Mars Kickstarter, Fan-ancing, and Austerity Logics
The media studies blogosphere blew up March 13-15 over the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to produce a movie based on 2004-7 TV show Veronica Mars. I’m a little late to the party because I had a...
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Steubenville and Electronically Networked Youth Culture
There has been a ton of writing about all the wildly awful things about the Steubenville sexual assault case: the slut-shaming and victim-blaming; the focus on the boys’ “ruined lives” at the expense...
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The DMCA, the Suppression of Speech, and Transparency
On Friday, April 5, a couple of my tweeps passed along links to the TorrentFreak story Movie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request Now, there’s a fair chance that...
View ArticleThe #IR14 Template Debate and Disciplinary Inequality
For its 2013 conference (#IR14 if you’d like to follow along at home October 23-27), the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) implemented a new format for submissions. The template went beyond...
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The Right to Leak and Share Docs?
Nothing useful rhymes with arms; I checked. This week’s post is of course about the revelation of the United States National Security Agency’s PRISM program. But more particularly, it was inspired by...
View ArticleMy Dissertation Defense #DrMel
And speaking of my dissertation defense, here’s the Prezi for that for those who were unable to attend, since I wasn’t able to have it streamed or live-tweeted.
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What we talk about when we talk about Musical Reuse
One set of intellectual-property scholars defends sampling in music, calling for expanding fair use to encompass all acts of sampling and arguing that we should do away with licenses and payments for...
View Article“The Fan” as/in Industry Discourse #scms14
My presentation on the Industry Studies and/as Audience Studies panel #k19 at the 2014 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference.
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