Virtual World Television: Case studies in the emergence of user-generated participatory television
This post comes from our presentation at Web Science 2012 this past June in Evanston, Il. We are in the …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Variations on Theme: Boudu, Toni, and Mother Nature
[Film analysis paper from 1999] In ancient times, many cultures conceived of the world as a snake devouring itself, creating …
The Rise of Hentai in America, Part 3
[This is the final part of the women studies paper I wrote on hentai. You can find Part 1, on …
How People Make Sense of Virtual Worlds — and Why It Matters
This video was produced by Roskilde University, with assistance from Dominican University, to summarize and even illustrate some of the …
The Rise of Hentai in America, Part 2
[In part 1 of this 2006 women studies paper, I discussed what hentai is and how it has grown in …
The Rise of Hentai in America, Part 1
(This paper, and the accompanying presentation I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way, were done in 2006 for a women’s …
The Culture of The Fail
As a society, as a civilization, even as a species, we like to celebrate success. With the Summer Olympics under …
Representations of Women in Japanese and American Pop Culture
(From a 2004 paper on a cross-cultural examination of the superheroine) In their article …
