The Huffington Post’s Sexist Linkbait Strategy

August 24, 2010

Created for and originally posted at Bitch Magazine’s Mad World Virtual Symposium

Huffington Post regularly uses women’s bodies as an internet marketing strategy to entice viewers and generate ad revenue.
Linkbait (n.): sensationalized and unrelated images and headlines used to draw viewers into other content on a website, it is often used to generate ad …

“Remixing Pop Culture” Event Videos

August 11, 2010

I organized “Remixing Popular Culture: Subverting Gender and Sexuality with Remix Video” at California State University, Northridge in March 2010 to explore how remix video can subvert gender and sexuality. I was joined by Jonathan McIntosh, Alexis Lothian, and Julie Levin Russo to talk about Political Remix Video and Vidding.
Here is the two …

Feminist Frequency on Critical Commons

August 2, 2010

I have recently published a lecture series featured on Critical Commons.  This collection of video clips and commentaries analyze the gender politics of TV shows ranging from Roseanne, to Gossip Girl, Veronica Mars, Fringe, Glee and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Critical Commons is a great site that utilizes fair use to support the …