Is it the water, the stones or is it something else?
Richard Ling / University of Copenhagen
Technology, social progress, and the metaphor of nature.
Read moreMonth: November 2012
Is it the water, the stones or is it something else?
Real: Older Gay Men in Popular Culture
Gerald Butters/ Aurora University
Disjunctures between representations of gay couples and age.
Read moreThe Walking Straight: Queer Representation in The Walking Dead
David Greven / University of South Carolina
An analysis of queer representation on The Walking Dead.
Read moreFree to Be You and Me
Kristen Hatch/UC Irvine
A discussion of how neoliberal discourses have re-inscribed children into marketplace-oriented gender roles.
Read moreThrough the Looking Glass with Google
J. Macgregor Wise/Arizona State University
Project Glass is an ongoing research project at Google’s super-secret Google X lab to produce augmented reality glasses.
Read moreModern Family’s Latina Spitfire in the era of White Resentment
Isabel Molina-Guzmán / University of Illinois
On Modern Family, Vergara’s award-winning performance of Latina spitfire Gloria affirms the show’s nostalgic representation of white masculinity, helping to soothe racial anxieties through a familiar figure of domestic Latina femininity. At the same time, Vergara’s complex representation of Latina motherhood also provides a unique moment of visibility, creating a rupture in the show’s narrative of white resentment.
Read moreWhen Screens Touch Back
David Parisi / College of Charleston
An in depth look at the science of Haptics and touchscreens.
Read more(Mis)Representing Black Sexualities: Madea versus MaDukes
Amber Johnson / Prairie View A&M University
The Boondocks and Tyler Perry’s universe.
Read moreDefanged: The Curious Case of the Family-Friendly Vampire
Andrew Scahill / George Mason University
A consideration of heteronormative trends in Disney’s The Little Vampire.
Read moreMobile Mediality
Mimi Sheller / Professor of Sociology, Drexel University
Considering the sensory multiplicities of “smart” mobile devices.
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