"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

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

Theme week organized by
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

Theme week organized by
Lyndsey SheltonGeorgia State University
4/22/2019 to 4/26/2019
Netflix Stand-Up Comedy

Theme week organized by
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: Cam and Fears of Online Identity Theft

Live-Streaming Body Horror

By Joseph DeLeon

5 sec ago

Wow, that trailer was a ride! Building off of Jenny's comments, I also feel like the themes that Cam evokes relate to Artificial Intelligence and the cultural fears surrounding the uncanny valley. Echoing the spectral text dialogue in...
Re: Nelson Sullivan's Selfie Videos

Way to close the week!

By Jenny Gunn

3 min 56 sec ago

Agreed, this is such a great way to close out our discussion. I think there are a lot of productive comparisons this suggests and absolutely agree that the historical precursors of self-mediation have to be considered, A few things that struck me: I...
Re: Nelson Sullivan's Selfie Videos

Great work

By Andrea Ruehlicke

4 hours 33 min ago

This is great! I love that we are ending this week with a reminder to historicize and contextualize the practice of self-mediation. Sullivan's work is also important to discussing the ways that individuals from underrepresented groups have used...
Re: 'Faceshopping' (2018) with Sophie Xeon/SOPHIE

My face is the front of shop

By Joseph DeLeon

5 hours 9 min ago

What a great text to put into conversation this week on self-images. There's a lot going on in this video! I was drawn to the break-down moment in the middle of the clip, where the glittery water droplets form text in the absence of SOPHIE's...
Re: Unfriended: A Glitch in Self-Mediation

Good point

By Jenny Gunn

Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 16:52

This is so true, Dewey and Andrea re: anxieties concerning authenticity. I think it is another version of the question of indexicality that was so pressing in relation to the emergence of digital photography. Now, with the digital perhaps and the...