The following are a selection of podcasts that help understand migrant issues, asylum seeking and border crossing. Some look at the macro and others consider individual stories. Read this helpful advice on how to listen to podcasts for class. This page is regularly updated. Border Subjects Melissa del Bosque talks about what motivates her to…
Category: Technology
YouTube as Archive: Fans, Gender and Mexican Film Stars Online
I am completing the final edits of a chapter, “YouTube as Archive: Fans, Gender and Mexican Film Stars Online” for a book entitled Revising Star Studies edited by Guy Austin and Sabrina Yu. In the chapter I’m exploring what it means to access YouTube in order to carry out star fan studies and to gain…
Frida Kahlo and Her Prosthetic Aids
In collaboration with Prof Claire Taylor, University of Liverpool, I wrote ‘“I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best” – Frida Kahlo’ on the significance of prosthetic limbs, illness, props, selfhood, politics and art for the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. This was a contribution to the Life and Limbs blog page and thinking around…
Gardens, twungles and e-forests
March 29th, 2010 Margaret Atwood wrote about twitter as populated by helpful fairies on the bottom of her garden eager to scold, encourage and correct her (http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/mar/29/atwood-in-the-twittersphere/), now it has become a twungle/e-forest with rotating skulls pushing her towards political activism: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/mar/12/deeper-twungle-atwood-twitter/. It’s a great trajectory to read. I have quoted Atwood in my forthcoming article on the use…
The discourse of the free
I find open source information and crowd sourcing knowledge compelling ideas. They make knowledge a public good and can have the benefit of being non-hierarchical. The theory is that we all can share, contribute and learn, which is great. The enthusiasm with which the sharing of such knowledge is often discussed can be infectious. I…