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By ~LS~ On February 25, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Generations, Pop Culture, Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Age, Blogging, Generations, Hillary, Technoculture, Voxygen

I’m waiting for Typekit to populate/propagate my font. I’m using Cooper. It’s been some time since I’ve blogged. There’s so much to say I don’t know where to begin. I’ll just chalk it up to a lost and found year. The font makes the webdesign. I have to finish rebooting things here.

As always, the design reflects things about my life too numerous to go into. For instance, I tried to de-clutter and get things squared away into a single-file simple column. I failed. However, things did get shoved to the bottom, all linky and soldier-like, messy in an orderly fashion, but overwhelming from a big-picture perspective.

The Sells-Jaros household is now just the Sells household. The Jaros household will be a household with someone else. Quite surreal. The Sells household is also without the beloved Pach Du. That was a devastation too great to be accounted for – [...]

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Where’s Neil Postman when you need him?

By ~LS~ On January 22, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Books, Computer, Generations, Media Ecology, Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Technoculture, Technology

I’m contemplating teaching Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death in my Introduction to Humanities class this semester, particularly Chapter 4 (“The Typographic Mind”). I don’t feel like scanning the chapter and I couldn’t find a pdf or doc online to use. Then it occurred to me that my students in all likelihood won’t read anything anyway, so why waste time scanning a document in the first place. I began to look for Sparknotes. I know, I’m bankrupt as an educator. At least I opted not to show the seventh grade history teacher’s youtube version of the Renaissance. I should get props for that.

Anyway, in my surfing, I ran into an amusing exchange on a forum. I don’t think the people involved were amused. I was, though, but in a depressing and ironic way. The exchange is started by a desperate student trying to locate a free copy of the [...]

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Another reason to like Hillary

By ~LS~ On September 18, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Gender, Generations, Hillary, Politics, Sexism, Speech, Television

Nonverbal communication expresses power and dominance. In public, professional settings, who gets to touch whom and the nature of that touch plays out and defines gender relations. Because it’s typically subtle, people are often unaware of this dynamic. When it’s more obvious, those who are in the “one down” position see it clearly and those in the position of power remain oblivious as part of their sense of entitlement. The stereotypical male boss/female secretary and male customer/female waitress interactions illustrate this over and over again. However, as gender roles change, the accompanying nonverbal behaviors change with them. Hillary is the perfect example.

This clip from Mad Men illustrates my point (see :40 – :50). Mad Men is a wonderful show to use for examples like this because it does such a good job of capturing the cultural milieu of the 50s and 60s [...]

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Cultural Identity Activity

By ~LS~ On August 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, I have to work?, Pedagogy, Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, Feminism, Gender, Generations, Louisiana, Pedagogy, Race, Sexism, Teaching, Teaching Activities

Since teaching at BRCC I have struggled with introducing issues of racism and other identity categories into the classroom. Given the diversity of the campus population, I’m not sure why. As I posted previously, the responses to racial topics are completely unpredictable.

Last semester, for instance, my students claimed that black people really do like fried chicken. Although part of that discussion was intentional provocation on some of the students’ part, I think many genuinely bought into the stereotype.

Perhaps my difficulties derive from the increasing hostility in conservative rhetoric toward people of color. The “love it or leave it,” English-only mentality is surprisingly prevalent. Although many, many white students don’t fall into this category, there are enough of them to make conversations tense and uncomfortable.

If the students of color (predominantly black, though we’re seeing a rise in other minorities) aren’t comfortable enough to [...]

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Wannabe feminism

By ~LS~ On April 1, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Fashion/beauty, Feminism, Gender, Generations, Music, Politics, Pop Culture, Sex, Sexism

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Pornification

By ~LS~ On February 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Feminism, For Wordies, Generations, Pop Culture, Rape, Sex, Sexism

Recently on WMST-L, the Women’s Studies discussion list, someone posted a call for papers about porn culture. The call was clearly anti-porn and the posting provoked a brief but rapid pro-/anti-porn debate before the moderator shut it down for being inappropriate to the mission of the list. Those old issues from the feminist sex wars still prickle at us feminists and I’m predictably on the fence about porn. I content myself to remember the title of the book, Pleasure and Danger, because porn is both those things, a crucial point about sex that we should always remember.

But one thing that does bother me is the pornification of consumer culture. I mean this in a different way than the typical use of the term as a comment on the how advertising borrows heavily from porn’s tropes and porn itself has infiltrated every aspect of popular culture. I’m [...]

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