"Beautiful Girl" by Max Schwoelk. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Self-Mediation in Contemporary Media

Monday, May 20, 2019 to Friday, May 24, 2019

Theme week organized by

Jenny GunnGeorgia State University

Self-Mediation and Repressed Affect in Personal Shopper

Monday, May 20, 2019

'Faceshopping' (2018) with Sophie Xeon/SOPHIE

By Joseph Owen Jackson

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Cam and Fears of Online Identity Theft

By Andrea Ruehlicke

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Unfriended: A Glitch in Self-Mediation

By Dewey Musante

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Sullivan Backyard with Pets

Nelson Sullivan's Selfie Videos

By Joseph DeLeon

Friday, May 24, 2019

Featured Content

5/20/2019 to 5/24/2019
Self-Mediation in Contemporary Media

Theme week organized by
Jenny GunnGeorgia State University
5/13/2019
Race & Fandom

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Tanya ZukGeorgia State University
Ashley JonesGeorgia State University
5/6/2019 to 5/10/2019
Motherhood & Media

Theme week organized by
Ashley JonesGeorgia State University
4/29/2019 to 5/3/2019
Media & Mental Health

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Lyndsey SheltonGeorgia State University
4/22/2019 to 4/26/2019
Netflix Stand-Up Comedy

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Daniel Van JelgerhuisGeorgia State University
4/15/2019 to 4/19/2019
MCU Retrospective

Theme week organized by
Jayson QuearryGeorgia State University

Recent comments

Re: 'Faceshopping' (2018) with Sophie Xeon/SOPHIE

Corporate Cannibal

By Jenny Gunn

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 19:21

Hi Joe, To your last comment and while reading your post I couldn't help but think of Grace Jones' Corporate Cannibal (Nick Hooker 2008). Steven Shaviro has argued that Corporate Cannibal affectively maps the mutability of the digital and its...
Re: 'Faceshopping' (2018) with Sophie Xeon/SOPHIE

Interesting! I buy that

By Dewey Musante

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 17:12

Interesting! I buy that argument. I agree with Jenny about Corperate Cannibal. I also thought of the deflated bodies in Under the Skin (2013). There's also the Robbie William's video for "Rock DJ." It seems...
Re: Self-Mediation and Repressed Affect in Personal Shopper

I like the idea that the

By Jenny Gunn

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 15:50

I like the idea that the female spirit that Maureen encounters is a manifestation of her repressed affect (grief, frustration) especially given the spewing ectoplasm! I also think there is a social commentary (ie the ignorance of history and perhaps...
Re: Self-Mediation and Repressed Affect in Personal Shopper

great work, Jenny

By Joseph Owen Jackson

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 11:15

great work, Jenny - there is something darkly funny and a little unnerving about a spiritualistic medium misleading and miscommunicating through digital media. is Maureen being manipulated by mysterious external forces...
Re: 'Faceshopping' (2018) with Sophie Xeon/SOPHIE

similarly stuck betwixt and between

By Joseph Owen Jackson

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 10:06

haha yes, I think 'experience' is a very diplomatic way of putting it! 'Shopping' and 'selling' metaphors keep cropping up within discussions of contemporary self-mediation... I guess one of the most nefarious lived experiences of self-...