Newspapers and magazines are reducing their critical coverage of the arts, but the human appetite to evaluate culture, to debate reactions and opinions, remains as vibrant as ever.
Podcast: Wayne Marshall, “Skinny Jeans and Fruity Loops: the Networked Publics of Global Youth Culture”
What can we learn about contemporary culture from watching dayglo-clad teenagers dancing geekily in front of their computers in such disparate sites as Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, and Mexico City?
What’s New at the Center for Future Civic Media?
Advanced researchers from the Center for Future Civic Media describe their work and offer live demonstrations of their computing wizardry.
Podcast: Richard Rouse, “Cinematic Games”
Many people talk about “cinematic” games, but what does this really mean? Richard Rouse tells us.
Podcast: John Picker, “Transatlantic Acousmatics”
Tracing a transatlantic route from fiction to radio and sound film back to fiction, this approach offers a new way to characterize a crucial period of change from the late Victorian to the modern world.
Podcast: Elisa Kreisinger, “Political Remix Video: A Participatory Post-Modern Critique of Popular Culture”
Remixers are on the front lines of the battle between new media technologies and impeding copyright laws that threaten to obstruct the public discursive space for critiquing popular culture.
Video and podcast: “Race, Politics, and American Media”
Following Obama’s election, are the harsh realities of race and class in the U.S. clearer now or murkier?
