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I'll be presenting research, attending, or otherwise involved at the upcoming conferences, as indicated: - Marxism and New Media, Duke University, Durham, NC:  Jan. 20-21. Attending. - Southern States Communication Association, St. Anthony Hotel, San Antonio, TX: April 11-15. Presenting "'Hooking Up' in International Techno-Horror: Feminism, Reproduction, and Users" and  "Great Ideas For

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My essay, "Free Speech Inside and Outside of Civil Rights Movements," appeared in a recent issue of Communication Currents. "I want to consider a few different types of free speech in regards to civil rights and social justice movements. The first is most familiar: a minority cause or disempowered group speaking to larger society. ... However, I want to point out another type: free speech

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There's a jazz pianist in the food court at the Atlanta airport

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At a CD release party for Wasted Wine and geeking out that their album title is a Foucault quote: Perpetual Spirals of Power and Pleasure.

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Hey, I'm organizing a preconference for the Communication History Interest Group of the International Communication Association: <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:SimSun; mso-font-alt:宋体; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Lucida Sans"; panose-1:2 11 6 2 3

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My essay, "Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927–1962," is out now in the new American Quarterly, a special issue on sound studies: http://ping.fm/McDkO

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My essay, "Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927–1962," is out now in the new issue of American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association. The special issue on sound studies, "Listening to American Studies," is guest edited by Kara Keeling and Josh Kun. Several articles, including mine, have supplementary media at the extended remix website.

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I have a recently published book chapter in The Long History of New Media, edited by Steve Jones, Nicholas W. Jankowski, and David W. Park, and published by Peter Lang. My contribution, "Sound Studies for Historians of New Media," intersects the transdisciplinary conversations of sound studies with new-media historiography, giving three research sketches of the usefulness of sound studies'

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The podcast "The Critical Lede," which covers qualitative communications research, has reviewed my essay in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, "Contested Kicks: Sneakers and Gay Masculinity, 1964-2008. Thank you Desiree & Ben for the review!

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I have a new essay in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, "Contested Kicks: Sneakers and Gay Masculinity, 1964-2008" and a book review in the International Journal of Communication of three new titles in genetics and identification technologies.

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Did a guest post over at the blog for the HUB BUB arts center in Spartanburg re. Corinne Manning, one of their Artists in Residence last year, who spoke in my gender class.

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I'll be teaching a class on trends in new media this June at the Thomas J Clemson University Brussels Center in Belgium. Give a shout if you'll be in the area!

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Apparently I wrote a book about the OJ trial: http://ping.fm/n5CnX

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Launching our new MA in Communication, Technology, and Society is a very exciting part of my new position as Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Clemson University. This program will examine technologies and social media from a Communication perspective -- with all the variety and diversity that implies. In addition to committee work, as an instructor I will be contributing my

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My essay, "Intimate Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927-1964" has been accepted for a special sound studies issue of American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association.The essay explores a historic role of a sound technology, telephony, in assessments of desirable people, especially people as its ideal and sanctioned user-consumers, as conveyed by

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My new review essay is out now in the International Journal of Communication. In it I talk about the disappearance of queer infrastructure (bookstores, newspapers) and the politics of visibility while reviewing Mary Gray's Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America and Christopher Pullen's Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media.

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I've got a new scholarly publication in Feminist Media Studies, "The Postfeminist User: Feminism and media theory in two interactive media properties." Here's the abstract:This paper is part of a preliminary investigation toward a postfeminist analysis of “the user.” It critically examines the pervasive liberatory rhetoric of interactivity through situating it within a widespread cultural context

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Out in Print has a review by Jerry Wheeler of the new collection I'm in, Best Gay Stories 2010D. Travers Scott’s brilliant “It’s Not You” both blurs and delineates, alternating sections titled “Fiction” and “Journal” as he gives an account of an “affair” between the story’s narrator and a straight boy. While not exactly idyllic, the fictional portions are more romanticized than the shorter,

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Hey there folks-The new Best Gay Stories 2010 from Lethe Press inclues my story , "It's Not You."I'm really excited to have this story published in 2010. It first appeared in my collection Love Hard: Stories 1989-2009 from Rebel Satori Press. But I wrote the first versions of it looooong ago when I lived in Chicago. It's about my first (and last) straight boyfriend, and tries to capture that

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(Me with friends at Club Lower Links, Chicago, 1991 or 1992, probably.)Just signed contracts to publish a story -- well, a novel excerpt really -- in the anthology Windy City Queer: GLBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast, edited by Kathie Bergquist and to be published by University of Wisconsin Press. The collection looks to be pretty awesome.My piece is "New. Great. Revolutionary." It's an

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First morning frost! Cool living somewhere with distict seasons for the first time in years.

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Just voted in first S Carolina election!

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Hey, come join me in celebrating the release of the new novel by Jennifer Natalya Fink, in a joint reading and signing event! Friday Oct. 296:00 pmHub City Writers Project Bookshop186 W. Main St.Spartanburg, SC864-577-9349Published by Rebel Satori Press, Fink's The Mikvah Queen is a coming-of-age story with many disco twists. In the anti-everything hippie culture of early ‘80s Ithaca, New York,

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If you're in the LA area Sunday Sept. 26th, be sure to stop by the Homocentric booth at the West Hollywood Book Fair. Hank Henderson runs this great local reading series and will have authors and their books there all day. I can't make it, but there will be an autographed 3-pack of first editions of my 3 books of fiction for sale.

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Just stumbled across the New York Public Library's Digital Archive and its amazing Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. It includes a bunch from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which I'm loving, as I'm in the middle of reading Erik Larson's Devil in the White City, a great account of the history of the Expo and how it was a hunting ground for America's first serial

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Western Union may have stopped sending telegrams, but you can still bring the spirit of the Victorian Internet with this handy Morse Code Converter.<!--//Morse code converter- By Luke Watson (luke@lukewatson.f2s.com)//Script featured on JK (http://javascriptkit.com)//Visit http://javascriptkit.com for this script and morevar charCodes=new Array(36); charCodes["a"]=". _";charCodes["b"]="_ . . .";

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Figured I should put something official up here, since it's less fleeting a medium than Facebook: I've relocated to Greenville, SC and will begin teaching this fall as an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies department of Clemson University.

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An article I wrote on the name "Web 2.0" is freshly published in the new issue of Rocky Mountain Communication Review, "New Media, New Relations," edited by Daren C. Brabham. My essay examines the history of the name "Web 2.0" as a marketing buzzword, and different online critiques of the name as both a descriptor of functionality and social movement.Big thanks to David Silver, Mary Madden, and

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The very groovy Turn of the Century Electrotherapy Museum (my new #1 reason to go visit South Florida) has lots of cool stuff online -- violet ray wands (aka portable Tesla coils), quack medical devices, turn of the century patents -- but they also have a whole page of movies, where you can see these and other old electro-medicinal devices and inventions sparking away in all their ethereal glory.

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The British discovered homosexuality.The Germans made it medical.The Americans made it political.The Australians made it mandatory.

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I'm so sick of this:MySpace victim’s mom disappointed by rulingThe girl was not a victim of MySpace. MySpace did not kill her or drive her to suicide. This issue is not MySpace.The issue is that a young girl felt so dependent on the approval of a boy and social group that she killed herself when she thought she'd lost it. The issue is that another's girl's mother was so crazily enmeshed in her

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I'm not a big dance fan (or "movement" as we called it in the performance art world), but German choreographer Pina Bausch took my breath away, especially her film Complaint of the Empress, which convinced me that dance could be cinema. Sad to learn today that's she's gone.

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So this week I sent off the manuscript for my new story collection, Love Hard. (Btw that title is sort of humorous -- you can read it in the sexual sense of "hard loving" -- and, although there is sex in the book, it's really much more about how love is difficult. Imagine hearing the title grunted in a gruff, masculine voice like Frankenstein's monster: "Love hard.")(Begging the question, do I

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Was forwarded this yesterday -- a striking color optical illusion reposted at the Bad Astronomy blog at Discover magazine. Somewhat shocking demonstration of how the eye and mind process information about color -- great example for teaching ideas of "reality" defined by sensory perception. (Would've been apropos at the Media Ecology conference).Also good for teaching 1960s abstraction, and not

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So this was the other show I checked out at the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, Carey Young's Speech Acts. Young is a UK conceptual/installation artist who does work on business and globalization, among other things. The Representative was a small, furnished sitting area with a red phone and two snapshots, one of a man, one of a woman. They were actual can center employees (American), to

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I love this picture. Sorry it's a crappy camera snap, I couldn't find it reproduced online or in any gift-store books: It's from the Missouri History Museum's exhibit on the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Centennial / World's Fair. It's on the wall devoted to the workers who constructed the fair: this handsome man was photographed a few months before the fair opened. I love his expression, the angle of

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Is reporting on the use of Twitter in the Iranian protests overinflated?Wired: Iran: Before You Have That Twitter-Gasm…. a quiet little piece compared to the Israeli conspiracy kerfuffle going on elsewhere..

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LA Times:Eastman Kodak Co. announced today that it is retiring the 74-year-old Kodachrome color film as photographers gravitate to digital cameras and newer films. About 70% of the company’s revenue now comes from its digital sales.Kodachrome sales had plunged in recent years to less than 1% of Kodak’s total film sales. Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kan., the only lab worldwide that still processes

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Snuck out of conference at lunch to go see 2 exhibits at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (fuzzy but kinda fun phone snaps below). An installation of Chantal Ackerman began disappointingly, with her recent Les Femmes d’Anvers en Novembre (Women of Antwerp in November). Like all the work at this exhibit, it was an installation-ization of traditional films, explorations in moving cinema into a

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The conference started yesterday, but I couldn’t attend because I’ve been taking a summer seminar for the last two weeks in multimedia/multimodal scholarship at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy. (You can check out my class project, the presentation for this conference, done in Prezi Flash instead of Keynote/Powerpoint.)Anyway when I got here this morning, the woman working the registration

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Thought of my friend Alina when I saw this sign on my way to catch the bus to the conference this morning. Last month at the International Communication Association, she not only took public transportation to just about every major tourist attraction in the city, she did it with her 6-year old daughter!So, when I had a mini anxiety twitch this morning -- some bus signs looked like this, others

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I’m in St. Louis this weekend for the Media Ecology Association conference. I decided not to stay near the conference but instead in the historic Soulard neighborhood. It kinda reminds me of Galveston: old red bricks, lush green overgrowth, heat and humidity, lazy ceiling fans, commingling poverty and gentrification, bars, bars, and more bars.

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I'm actually linking to WIRED.Bruce Sterling does 'Dead Media Beat' on MySpace's reported plan to cut 30% of its workforce:"I’m thinking we need a different model here, a social-good model. If we really want to spend all our time socializing on networks, and we don’t want to spend any money doing that, and it isn’t a profit center for anybody, and it only lasts five years tops, no matter how big

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Yes, the Iranian election protests are wonderful (coulda used some more of that in '00 here), but, more importantly, how does it affect my morning viral browsing?YouTube actually has interesting content front-and-center again - nice to see some social activism alongside product promotions and teen diaries. (That business model is working out so well for MySpace.)- Spotlight: Democracy Challenge-

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Obama DOJ lies to Politico in defending hate brief against gaysby John Aravosis (DC) on 6/12/2009 01:26:00 PMBen Smith at Politico just reported the following statement from the Department of Justice over their brief, filed last night, comparing gay marriage to incest:As it generally does with existing statutes, the Justice Department is defending the law on the books in court. The president has

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Go Frenchies!Daily Mail: Internet access is a fundamental human right, rules French courtOngoing coverage.

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After meeting Ben Peters at ICA and talking about his work on Soviet computing, I got to thinking of this old post from the always wonderful Oh Haigh on Soviet architectual phtographs, and the Shostakovitch movie musical Cherry Town as well, so just thought I'd throw them all together in a general post of retro Soviet goodness....

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New fave site for communication technology history, visual studies, and general 17th-18th century goodness: Jack & Beverly's Optical Toys displays their collection of devices, toys, and optical games, including a Thaumatrope, Zoetrope, Praxinoscope, Phenakistoscope, Flip Books, Peepshows, Dioramas, a Zograscope, Magic Lanterns, and graphics and slides. Bestill my beating neurasthenia!(And if you

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A Microsoft creation that thinks it knows what you want better than you do? Shocking!A Google spawn that's overambitious and overwhelming? Shockity shock shock!Nice Bing & Wave review by Mike Elgan here.

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This is a brief presentation I wrote up for the International Communication Association as an alternative to presenting a research paper -- more a general provocation and attempt to spur discussion instead of talking about a specific project. I ended up presenting the specific project after all but I like this, so thought I'd post it here. (photo: Linda Montano & Tehching Hsieh)I’m going to

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Deep in the enchanted forest of dissertation writing - it's beautiful but I can understand why many people get lost in these woods.However stay tuned from some upcoming big publishing news :)

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spit-taking over chippendiddies

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designing takuni loungewear

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chastising insouciant cephalopods

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This course explores different qualitative approaches to the study of science and technology in society. We will begin by discussing the framework and foundations of such studies by looking at questions of knowledge production and evaluation. We will then conduct in-depth explorations of three major approaches: science studies, feminist studies, and cultural studies. Within each of these general

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This course explores qualitative methods for studying communication participants, processes, texts, and technologies. These methods focus on theories of cultural understanding and social insight rather than statistical “proof” or predictive models. As we discuss methodological texts and exemplars from various disciplines and traditions, we will pay special attention to their use within

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This course explores the histories of primarily (but not exclusively) electronic communication technologies. In studying this subject, we will also explore the nature of writing history or historiography as a story, like other narratives forms, that cultures tell themselves to make sense of their reality. This will involve looking at different ways the histories of communication technologies can

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This course explores the complex and complimentary relationship between communications me- dia and sexual and gender minorities, primarily in the era of broadcast, mass-media telecommu- nications in the United States. Communications media are examined as tools of networking and building identities and communities, but also channels of stereotyping and exclusion. We will examine how different

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shoveling excess fenks

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seeking solar resuscitation

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We had joy, we had fun, we had spring semesters in the sun... (hey did anyone else know that was originally a jacques brel song?)'Tis the start of a new semester and I realize I never posted the sample syllabi I wrote after my exams, so I'll start putting those up now... One thing I notice, looking at them after just having taught my first class, is that there are way too many readings.

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Obviously I've been playing with this blog as of late. The traffic reflects it, but that's never been a main goal of mine. (In fact I get irked at how often expanding readership is assumed the goal of blogging / posting etc. Isn't all the new media hype about being past the era of mass media?)Anyway so I've been playing with the form of blogging - experimented with just doing minimal posts of a

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snuggling amphibious behemoths

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abandoning jane austen

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savoring december warmth

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fondling prehistoric invertebrates

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missing eartha kitt

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rediscovering bill nelson

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annotating Etruscan autobiographies

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administering final exam

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desiring 'Raving Rabbits'

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Conducting Page seances

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pilfering populated perambulators

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contemplating ranivorous excursions

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re-editing a Joan Crawford movie

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shoveling email backlog

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Watching Dr. Phil (I know, I know) on proposition 8 that recently took civil rights away from hundred of couples like me in California. Proposition 8 supporters are still repeating the same lie that same-sex couples can already have all the same rights as married couples. Sigh. So here we go again...- Marriages are performed everywhere. Civil unions or domestic partnerships only exist in less

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Testing Ping.fm

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Attended a benefit last weekend for gay historian Stuart Timmons, co-author of Gay L.A., swell guy, and great speaker I helped bring to USC a couple of years ago. Stuart is recovering from a stroke and needing help with rehab expenses.Donations can continue to be sent to:Stuart Craig Timmons Irrev. Trustc/o Gay TimmonsPOB 472Los Gatos, CA 95031.

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Brief break from the photostream to announce some upcoming publications -2 things in academic journals: "The Postfeminist User: Interactivity, Agency, and Gender" I'm currently revising for resubmitting to Feminist Media Studies; "Bubble 2.0: Organized Online Critique of Web 2.0," has been accepted for Rocky Mountain Communication Review.Also, "Fierce.net: Imagining a Faggotty Web" has been

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