Images collected from The Guardian and The Nation.

Sports & Politics in the U.S.

Monday, April 8, 2019 to Friday, April 12, 2019

Theme week organized by

Dafna KaufmanGeorgia State University

"Brand Ambassadors": Cheerleaders, Gendered Labor, and Institutional Crisis in the NFL

By Brett Siegel

Monday, April 8, 2019

1 comment

Defamiliarizing Concussions

By Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Invisible Man: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's Forgotten Protest

By Dafna Kaufman

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

How The Treatment of Women Sportscasters Foretold The Rise of Trumpism

By Guy Harrison

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Sports, Politics, and the #MeToo Movement

By Kathleen Bachynski

Friday, April 12, 2019

Contributors

Brett Siegel

Doctoral Student & Assistant InstructorThe University of Texas at Austin

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Lecturing FellowDuke University

Dafna Kaufman

Student MA Film Studies Georgia State University

Guy Harrison

Assistant Professor, Telecommunication StudiesYoungstown State University

Recent comments

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

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By Joseph Owen Jackson

Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 16:20

I love that break-down moment in the video! When the shrill voice stops singing with discernable words, the text dissolves into glittery nothingness while the singer ecstatically warbles strange, alien sounds. Perhaps this points towards...
Re: Nelson Sullivan's Selfie Videos

I second Andrea's comment

By Joseph Owen Jackson

Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 16:13

I second Andrea's comment! As we analyse and immerse ourselves in contemporary audiovisual artefacts, it is imperative that we remember the media archaeology which surrounds and contextualises the methods and aesthetics of today's artists...
Re: Unfriended: A Glitch in Self-Mediation

Skyping Selfie Death

By Joseph DeLeon

Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 01:34

Wow, it's remarkable how much the blog posts touched on dystopian or horror approaches to the self-image. I think Unfriended has much in common with Cam on the "liveness" front. Andrea's post evoked for me that liveness confers a...
Re: Cam and Fears of Online Identity Theft

Live-Streaming Body Horror

By Joseph DeLeon

Friday, May 24, 2019 - 19:15

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

Friday, May 24, 2019 - 19:11

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...