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I’m excited to announce that the second Queer Internet Studies (QIS2) Symposium, which I am again blissfully organizing with the fabulous Jessa Lingel, will be a one-day event on February 17th at UPenn’s Institute for Contemporary Art. Read more about QIS2 here and get to the registration via this link: http://jgieseking.org/qis2/. Please share widely!

The goal of the day’s conversation is to broaden our thinking about the internet: to think about intersections of technology and media, sexuality and queering, gender and feminism. The final schedule is still being determined, but we’re hoping to have a mix of sharing research, making art and developing an interdisciplinary conversation of what Queer Internet Studies might mean for research, policy and activist agendas. Presenters and panelists include T.L. Cowan, Oliver Haimson, Adrienne Shaw, Carmen Rios, Mia Fischer, Mitali Thakor, Shaka McGlotten, and Katherine Sender. All in attendance will be invited …

Tweets from Snorton 12/1/16 lecture: C. Riley Snorton interrogate the absent presence of PhillipDeVine from the public memory of the Humboldt killings and the nationalnarration of Brandon Teena, as a transgender martyr. See more here: https://www.umass.edu/wgss/event/c-riley-snorton-devines-cut.

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 This is the beginning of a journey I chose to take but, was long overdue. I was around for the infancy of the internet I remember the start of social media. NO I’m not some ancient relic from the past I’m still in my 30′s by the way. I just lost touch, life happened, now I need to get back my mojo.       

Immediately after the election, my colleague/friend Emma Jackson at Goldsmiths asked to be part of The Sociological Review‘s rapid response collection to the US election. I said yes even though I was mostly in a fog about what to write beyond making it for, by, and about queers. No surprise there.

Shortly thereafter, Rhon Manigault-Bryant’s brilliant post “An Open Letter to White Liberal Feminists” on the African-American Intellectual History Society site launched. I was inspired by Manigault-Bryant’s words when she wrote that she was “delighted” that white women were forced to finally reckon with violence and injustice that women of color faced daily. In writing a contemporary historical geography of New York City, I often struggle with the inane notion that lgbtq lives have gotten “better” when there has never been evidence of decreasing rates of LGBTQ youth suicides, harassment of LGBTQ people of color, or violence against …

Merry Christmas! Did you hear that I saved a bunch of money on Christmas!!  How?  I talked about politics on Facebook!!! Kidding.  Totally kidding.  I spent part of this holiday time socializing with family members who did not vote the way I did.  We didn’t talk about politics much.  My plan was to first listen. … Continue reading Listening to someone who voted differently →

The purpose of this research is to reveal the ways in which the social theory of Karl Marx has been taught in Anglophone Universities. The research will explore this issue starting from the emergence of Marx’s social theory as an … Continue reading →

My Inkle Story Here http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/inklewriter-storytelling/ Tell a story using the free Inklewriter program found here:http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/ Inklewriter is perfectly designed for choose your own adventure-type stories. It offers numerous tools to create detailed interactive fiction narratives. It is similar in concept to the popular tool twine. Twine, however, is more focused on choice complexity and gaminess, […]

I have a couple of ideas about what I could make for the VFL17 Group Project which include: Dear Photograph Style Photos – Using old photos of Leicester I would mimic the style of Dear Photograph by printing them out and taking a photo of them framed within the same locations showing how it has […]

I’ve been contemplating signing up to do a run of ds106, the University of Mary Washington’s open course in Digital Storytelling. I have to link this blog to the ds106 site, and to do so, I needed to write a post about ds106 so that I could categorize it. It’s Friday morning and I have … More ds106

If she is nothing but skin and bones Is she not beautiful? The once vibrant visage, now so cold and… Read more The Definition of Beauty

  Recently the internet has gone crazy over this group of musical children in colored leggings seemingly lead by an old puppeteer man with an affinity for Emus. Without a care in the world one has to wonder…what could they teach US about life?   1.Always tackle life with enthusiasm.   When you start out […]

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This is my submission to the create An Album Cover  visual assignment found on the ds106 site. This assignments difficulty is … More

Uncertainty, Innovation, and Dynamic Capabilities are my words of the year. They also form the title of an article by Dave Teece, a business professor from Berkeley. The article did not grab me in the same way as the words, … Continue reading →

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Thanks for hopping onto my very first blog.At the moment I have immense drive and inspiration that I've never felt before. Most of this I put down to my little boy who's due in 2 weeks. It's literally like he's saying to me - "Come on, complete and ach...

For this mock marked post I chose this assignment  which involved the creation of a silly movie poster. Above you can see what I have created using Adobe Photoshop. I started by using a blank template of the Jurassic Park poster which I found on this website.  My inspiration was to blend the dinosaur character Rex […]

I have now finished Unit 3 by completing 3 Daily Creates, the Visual Story task and 5 Card Flickr Story task. Out of all of these the most enjoyable was probably Daily Create #1709 as I found this quite fun to carry out due to its content and the simplicity of it. @ds106dc Desktop dozen! #tdc1709 […]

I would like to begin this post by saying that anyone considering a career in education needs to take this class or a class that will be multi-modal in regards to the way the digital tools used are taught as well as one that exposes the issues that face education reform today. Out of all […]

Using Kurt Vonnegut’s ideas about outlining the shape of stories through visuals and after taking inspiration from Maya Eilam’s work I created the following image:     This image represents the basic plot of the movie  Jurassic Park  and was created in Adobe Photoshop using images sourced online (and linked below:) Image References: Happy Face Graphic […]

For Unit 3 we had to create a 5 Card Flickr story which is a story based upon 5 randomly picked images from the Flickr tag. The images for my story were picked using this website and can be seen below:   The story I have created for them is: “Life is all about the journey; […]