Over*Flow
Over*Flow: “Blonde is a Kind of Person”: A Cultural History of the Dumb Blonde
Kelly coyne / Northwestern University
Kelly Coyne dissects the racial and gender politics that underlie the “dumb blonde” stereotype.
Our Future is Garbage: Rejecting Climate Despair in Speculative Science Fiction
R Baker / University of California, Santa Barbara
Baker discusses hope and despair in the face of climate crisis as manifest in science fiction media narratives, focusing on Pixar’s WALL-E (2008), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), and Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita’s Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 (2019).
Read moreBlack Twitter is Dead… But Its Spirit Will Live On
Jabari Evans / University of South Carolina
Dr. Jabari Evans muses on Black Twitter and how its culture might continue after its demise.
Read moreLove, Death, and AI
Cait McKinney / SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Dr. Cait McKinney reflects on the heteronormativity of popular discourse on Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots.
Read moreChicago 1968 and the Kaleidoscopic Mosaic of the 1960s TV News Experience
Michael Socolow / University of Maine
Dr. Michael Socolow recounts how television coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago ignited discussion about the accuracy of television reporting, in addition to raising questions about how viewers interpret TV news.
Read moreViewing Women Readers: Digital Culture and Feminist Close Reading
Michele White / Tulane University
Dr. Michele White shows how feminist forms of close reading are a productive method for studying digital media and culture.
Read moreDo we misremember Eternal September?
Kevin Driscoll / University of virginia
Kevin Driscoll reconsiders narratives of 1993’s Eternal September to argue these communities were not the end, but the beginning of a more open, inclusive internet.
Read moreQueer City: Interactive Storytelling through Twine as Queer Archival Resistance in Bangladesh
Mohammed Rashid / The University of Texas at Dallas
Mohammed Rashid explores how Twine, a digital media platform, and more specifically, the Queer City interactive project, acts as a clandestine method of queer archiving and archival resistance through which the experiences and stories of the Bangladeshi queer community may be protected, archived, and carefully circulated.
Read more“Don’t Talk Yourself To Death”: Visualizing Information Security at the NSA
Jennifer Holt / University of California, Santa Barbara
Jennifer Holt analyzes in-house NSA posters from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s as articulations of anxieties surrounding security and privacy.
Read moreForget Jeff Bezos. Learn the Name Danni Ashe.
Becky Holt / Concordia University.
Often a conversation clouded by taboo, Becky Holt argues the contributions that pornographers have made in technological innovation and in disrupting e-commerce is a narrative overlooked. Learn about adult industry worker Danni Ashe and her online entrepreneurial forays circa the late 90s and early 00s.
Read moreOver*Flow: “Blonde is a Kind of Person”: A Cultural History of the Dumb Blonde
Kelly coyne / Northwestern University
Kelly Coyne dissects the racial and gender politics that underlie the “dumb blonde” stereotype.
Read moreRadio country
Morgan Bimm / ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY
Dr. Morgan Bimm examines radio as a tool of nationalism and alienation.
Read moreMediating Emergency in Moments of Campus Tragedy
Elizabeth Ellcessor / University of Virginia
Dr. Elizabeth Ellcessor examines the emergency alert message in terms of its production and dissemination as constructed and negotiated texts. She considers the infrastructures and institutions of campus safety, emergency management, and policing.
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