Category Archives: Internet culture

Sometimes I dream about John Darnielle

I like the Mountain Goats. I like the Mountain Goats a lot. I recently bought a used car with a CD player and no iPhone jack. The four CDs I burnt to play while I drive around town (yes, the … Continue reading

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Teaching sex on the internet

I’m excited to be teaching this summer a new course that I designed for the Gender & Women’s Studies department. It’s titled “Gender and Sexuality in Digital Cultures,” but it might as well be called “Sex on the Internet.” Topics … Continue reading

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Planking as Performance Art

The following is a post I wrote recently for my “Understanding New Media” class blog in response to Shannon Jackson’s book Social Works. I’m personally tickled by, and not entirely unserious about, planking as body-based performance art: A group of … Continue reading

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