To echo others, great end to a great week of posts. I like the type of allegory going on in your discussion of the Black Barbies and Tubman's "motivational rifle." It seems like a satirical video like this that challenges notions of a fixed ...
Dayna- Your post raises something that is far too often excluded from the "Open Source Academia" debate, which is: in whose interest do academics utilize social media for their work? A discussion of the Institution and its real and symbolic &quo ...
This is a particularly illuminating post, Suzanne. I was actually relatively unaware of the attack waged against game studies in academia that manifested itself in the GamerGate phenomenon. I think the opening line of the Inside Higher Ed article you link ...
Fantastic post and comments! So much of this topic is tied up in our changing definitions of criticism and what it means to "critically engage" with media and one another. The spirit of scholarly media practice like this derives in equal parts f ...
This post adds a great twist to this week's IMR topic. What happens when open source academia becomes truly open? I imagine this experience is very similar to that felt by film directors and artists whose work means something concrete and perhaps pro ...
This is a complex text and topic – thanks for the post Diana. I'm not sure if I can definitively answer the questions you're posing, but I find the detail with which the sketch goes about its social critique of the culture of the military fascin ...
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The motivational rifle
Who controls access?
In defense of defense
Expanding Definitions
When Mildred Met Internet
Satire for thought