Art as a Door to Communication
by Hyemin Lee I attended a talk, “Art, Science and Technology: Between the Studio and the Lab,” by Steven Kurtz, a professor of Visual Studies at the State University of …
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I’m curious about architectural and community structures, as well as norms of behavior, and how they might produce the possibility for feminist interactions online. I’ve been working on this with my students at USC (Spring 2011) and Pitzer (Fall 2011), and I blog about that here and elsewhere.
Ms Magazine Anniversary
by CharlottePradie I went to a talk about Ms. Magazine a few weeks ago. I remember learning about Ms. sophomore year in my Introduction to Media Studies class. I hadn’t …
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For their second assignment in the class Online Feminist Spaces, my students conducted an ethnography of their site, and then posted their brief findings on this blog. They then read …
Ethnography Reflections Read MoreEthnography: Craigslist Queer Forum
By Leonardo Flores The queer forum on Craiglist is a public space where users, from all over the world, join in different conversations regarding queer topics. These topics are highly …
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By Hannah Adelstein For this ethnography, I chose to research the Thinspiration/Pro-Ana/Pro-Mia community on Tumblr. Thinspiration blogs are meant to inspire women, and some men, to lose weight. Posts come …
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