I've spent the semester on a research fellowship at the University of Minnesota's Institute for Advanced Study. Fellows meet weekly for lunchtime presentations of our work in progress. My presentation was today; I was supposed to be talking about the role of music in vids (which is the topic I've been researching this semester as a break from the ( Read more... )

In February, I was part of a panel on Participatory Cultures and Vidding at the Digital Media and Learning (DML) conference. Louisa Stein, who moderated the panel, has just posted the text of our talks, along with a bit of context. If you're interested in seeing how a few fannish academics who care about vids are talking about vids and vidding to ( Read more... )

For the past few months, I've been trying to finish up some academic projects that pre-date my current work on vids and vidding, which is why I haven't been posting much: I've been trying not to distract myself. But I've continued to think and talk about vids, both informally and at academic conferences, and I'm starting to get back to the writing ( Read more... )

First, a quick bit of bureacracy: I'm now cross-posting to DreamWidth (same username), so if you're reading primarily on DreamWidth these days, feel free to add me to your DW circle and I'll happily reciprocate.

And now, the main business of this post.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to give a presentation about my current research to the UMM ( Read more... )

If you want to hear the presentations from the IP/Gender Symposium--including, but not limited to, mine--they're all available as podcasts. For more information about speakers and topics, including which speakers are on which panels, check the schedule. (I'm the third speaker of the first panel.)

A couple of weeks ago I attended (and presented at) the IP/Gender Symposium at the American University Washington College of Law. It was a terrific experience. I was particularly happy about the opportunity to engage in ongoing conversation with a relatively limited number of people; most academic conferences have multiple panel streams, but IP/ ( Read more... )

I haven't had time to blog in a while because I've been so busy actually working on projects! But deathisyourart nudged me for an update on my presentation for the IP/Gender Symposium (April 23-24), which I am in fact in the middle of working on. ( Hence, an update. )