Professor Harrell’s research starts with the observations that “creating identities in the real world is an active creative act of imagination.”
Podcast: “Booklife: The Private and the Public in Transmedia Storytelling and Self-Promotion”
What are the benefits and dangers of a confusion between the private creativity and the public career elements of a writer’s life caused by new media and a proliferation of “open channels”?
Indian Comics as Public Culture
How the Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) series of comic books function as public culture, creating a platform around which groups and individuals negotiate and re-negotiate their identities.
Podcast: Celia Pearce, “Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online Games & Virtual Worlds”
Celia Pearce, exploring the connection of identity to virtual place and the “Uru Diaspora,” a game community from the defunct MMOG “Uru: Ages Beyond Myst”.
Podcast: Tak Toyoshima, “Tracking Secret Asian Man”
Tak Toyoshima explores the relationship between his preferred content (the exploration of Asian-American identity), his medium (comics), and his mode of distribution (syndication primarily through independent newspapers).
Agent + Image: How the Television Image Estabilizes Identity in TV Spy Series
The television image and the presentation of self-identity, via two TV series in the spy genre — Alias and The Prisoner.
Decloaking Disability: Images of Disability and Technology in Science Fiction Media
How images of disability are used to frame cultural narratives regarding technology.
