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Media Pandemic

Sunday, April 5, 2020

Theme week organized by

Maggie Hennefeld

James Leo CahillUniversity of Toronto

Is Social Media Like the Coronavirus?

By Maggie Hennefeld James Leo Cahill

Monday, April 6, 2020

I Celebrate Media of Social Proximity

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Blackness, Asynchronicity, and the Antidote to “Going Live”

By Lauren McLeod Cramer

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Jinkies, It's Coronavirus Capitalism!

By Nicole Seymour Josh Epstein

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Media Prophylaxis: Reality TV in the Time of COVID-19

By David Bering-Porter

Friday, April 10, 2020

The Zoombie Apocalypse

By Neta Alexander

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Featured Content

4/5/2020
Media Pandemic

Theme week organized by
Maggie Hennefeld
James Leo CahillUniversity of Toronto
3/29/2020
80s Horror

Theme week organized by
Michael BassGeorgia State University
3/22/2020
Non-Binary Games

Theme week organized by
Lyndsey SheltonGeorgia State University
3/15/2020
Female Comedians on Netflix

Theme week organized by
Kristina Jespersen
3/7/2020
Female Comedians

Theme week organized by
Kristina Jespersen
3/1/2020 to 3/5/2020
Exploring Citizenship

Theme week organized by
Harifa SiregarGeorgia State University

Recent comments

Re: Is Social Media Like the Coronavirus?

A necessity and a luxury

By James Leo Cahill

2 hours 21 min ago

Thank you for your engagement Shelley. Not unlike the toilet paper in the video, humour is both necessary and insufficient at moments of crisis, and a luxury we don't take for granted. It's hard to even know where to begin to formulate responses...
Re: Is Social Media Like the Coronavirus?

humor and seriousness

By Shelley M Park

6 hours 3 min ago

Thank you for this Maggie and James! Both the humor and the intellectual seriousness are welcome at this moment. And thank you for reminding me of Sontag's work on illness and its renewed relevance. I have no immediate answers to your...
Re: Films of Panos Cosmatos: Retro as an Aesthetic of Alienation

Mandy

By Adam Cybulski

Sunday, April 5, 2020 - 18:54

Thank you for your comment! Yes, I believe so—disintegration of narrative, confusing the viewers are clearly artistic strategies of Cosmatos. When it comes to inward/inside narrative, I refer to this term in context of Deleuze's ideas of Time-Image/...
Re: The Parodic Reprise of 80s Camp Queerness in American Horror Story: 1984

1980s Influence

By Adam Cybulski

Sunday, April 5, 2020 - 18:48

Surely, there is—like you described—a lot of horror/sci-fi films and tv shows influenced by the 80s right now, e.g. Summer of 84, Final Girls, It Follows, You're Next, You Might Be the Killer, Tonight It's You, Manborg, Stranger Things. I...
Re: The Parodic Reprise of 80s Camp Queerness in American Horror Story: 1984

Contemporary Incidental Queer Inclusion in AHS: 1984

By Hans Staats

Friday, April 3, 2020 - 23:15

Hello Stephanie, I was impressed with your interpretation of American Horror Story: 1984. I have to admit that I've given up on the show over the past few years and your post has inspired me to reconsider. That said, I'm curious to hear...