July 20, 2010
Created for and originally posted at Bitch Magazine’s Mad World Virtual Symposium Every time I go to download files from a BitTorrent tracker site I am constantly bombarded with ads for sex/dating sites or straight up pornography and I’m sick of it. Women and people of colour are engaging in online technologies as well and [...]
Filed under: Advertising
Tags: Advertising, bittorrent, File Sharing, Pornography, Techno-Geek, Technology
July 12, 2010
[tweetmeme] Earlier this year, Melanie Klein of Feminist Fatale invited me to speak to her Women and Popular Culture class at Santa Monica College in California. I spent the hour talking about how powerful Political Remix Video and Vidding are for critiquing media messages and fostering a talk back culture. We also discussed the legal [...]
Filed under: Event
Tags: Fair Use, Political Remix Video, Vidding
July 6, 2010
[tweetmeme] After many months (and years of watching TV) I have finally completed my thesis, bringing to a close my master’s degree. The submitted document is available for download in PDF format for those who are interested in reading it. Download PDF (756KB) Heroic women in science fiction and fantasy television shows have done much [...]
Filed under: Writing
Tags: Archetypes, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Dollhouse, Firefly, Gender, Homophobia, Joss Whedon, Lost, Patriarchy, Racism, science fiction, Star Trek, SyFy, Terminator, Tropes, TV