Radhika Gajjala
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shifting hierarchies doesnt equal "utopia"
Jack - yes- it is interesting to see not only what other values, but what other ways in which specific kinds of labor gets invisibilized and subsumed. What indeed are the implications of this "global marketplace" and where is the oppression re-s ... -
interesting point, Avi.
interesting point, Avi. ... -
Yes Judd - there is a clear
Yes Judd- there is a clear recognition and respect for the labor and literacies involved in the production process in the way that gamers and people engaging extensively in immersive online social lives. For those of us who research these texts and produc ... -
Re: Kumaari
Ok - I'll try a
Ok- I'll try a reading... I havent seen the film- but it seems parody like of bollywood film sequences at the same time as it reinforces the same. As bollywood and tollywood (telugu/tamil "hollywood") viewers know the dutch tulips are a com ... -
Matt - I was having a
Matt- I was having a conversation with a student who is working on Gender and computer games. What we both see in this is a great problem in how they are trying to sell the Wii. I question if the producers are even aware of the demographics in computer ga ... -
hmmm... Great way to sell
hmmm... Great way to sell it women? r ... -
wow - cant believe I missed
wow- cant believe I missed this episode (I am a guilty soap watcher from time to time- but havent been watching this past year much). An interesting incorporation of multiple genres into a daytime soap... ... -
Is it possible that a more
Is it possible that a more globally aware and nuanced "desi" is emerging out of this? It will be interesting to see how they position themselves in relation to or against the NRI populations that image a romanticized and fetishized "Des&quo ... -
Jyotsna, I understand what
Jyotsna, I understand what you are optimistic for- I am there sometimes myself. My attempt is to provide a problematization of the reading that suggests that this image and song (which when played by those that do not get the context even partially-as I a ... -
Avi, Dalits have a presence
Avi, Dalits have a presence online- and Rohit Chopra (see http://nms.sagepub.com/content/vol8/issue2/- the special issue of New Media and Society- on South Asian Digital Diasporas) and some others have done close readings of how the Dalit presence now neg ...