Bill Kirkpatrick
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Comedy on American Public Broadcasting
I was unaware of this show, so I appreciated learning about it here. It made me rack my brains for examples of (non-British, non-children's) comedy that have thrived on PBS, and while my knowledge of 40+ years of public television is less than encycl ... -
Fascinating Text
This documentary is new to me, but it looks like a fascinating text. I especially like the way your post complicates "mental illness" and how we try to locate it: Renee is "obviously" the mentally ill one here, but your analysis cap ... -
Interesting post
This reminds me of a good article I read about making sports stadiums accessible and the problems faced by those in the "wheelchair section." Similar to the famous knapsack of white privilege, the knapsack of able-bodied privilege is very full i ... -
Great textual analysis!
I have seen this clip a dozen times and used it in class, but I confess I had never considered the class and racial politics of it before, so thank you for opening my eyes to this. Your insight into the resonances and silences of the "level playing ... -
Terrific post, and it leaves
Terrific post, and it leaves me wanting to ask you all kinds of questions about different hypotheticals and how they relate to your ideas here. For example, copyright law recognizes the category of "work for hire" in which legal authorship is t ... -
Google giveth, Google taketh away
Wasn't it just a few short months ago that Google was not only not evil, but they were freakin' Santa Claus, promising to bestow a 1-gigabit fiber network on a handful of lucky communities? Somehow the public managed to grasp the economic and ... -
Policy is Privilege
Thanks to everyone for the great comments so far. I'll try to respond briefly to keep the conversation going. Noel: I agree about the kind of creativity that makes the web great—I wish I had more of it. (Ze Frank always makes me feel that way too. ... -
The Cat Lady Case
Thanks to Erika for that link. 4chan's ability to regulate off-line behavior definitely adds a new wrinkle to my focus on media policy and highlights the ability of collective action online to supplant traditional police work (I also like the relati ... -
Updated thoughts in light of Wikileaks
Since I wrote this piece back in August, 4chan and Anonymous have become central players in the Wikileaks story. Under pressure from people like Senator Joseph Lieberman, several corporations sought to punish Wikileaks for their disclosures by blocking t ...