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BO RUBERG, Ph.D.
To reach Dr. Ruberg, please email them at bruberg [at] uci.edu. You can also find them on Twitter as @myownvelouria.
Dr. Ruberg is a Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine.
For more information about Dr. Ruberg and their work, please visit the "Bio & Contact" section or their UCI faculty page.OUR GLASS LAKE
is Bo's blog and personal website.- Title: "'Look, make Mother take you and me to Our Glass Lake tomorrow.' These were the textual words said to me by my twelve-year-old flame in a voluptuous whisper." -Lolita
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Category Archives: New Media
The many linguistic uses of iPhone emoticons
I’ve become fascinated by the emoji keyboard on the iPhone, especially now that iOS 6 comes with a wider range of options, including everything from the hilariously banal to the bafflingly bizarre to the surprisingly queer friendly. I thought, when … 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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