Syllabus Adjustments
There are a few adjustments I would like to make to the syllabus. 1) Going forward, I would like a weekly blog update from each group (one post per group–I recommend that you rotate this responsibility) on their thoughts, process, and progress for the final project. You can use this post to get feedback from […]
Year of the Flood Project
This evening in class, we will begin our discussion of Margaret Atwood’s Year of the Flood. I have enjoyed reading the responses you have posted so far. Tonight, Emily will also do a demonstration of Mural.ly, a collaboration tool we will use to discuss, draft, and plan your final project: a collaborative multimedia response to […]
Reminder: In-person meeting tonight, 10/17
Just a reminder that we will meet in person tonight at our regular time and place, 6:00-7:30 in 3N. Looking forward to it.
Reading for 10/17
This week’s readings are in the syllabus, but here they are for handy clicking: Brograms and Vaporware Femfuture at Barnard Femfuture, Redlight Politics Femfuture Storify I’d also like to look at #solidarityisforwhiteowomen and here and feel free to comment on this post with more. Let’s also look at what happened to Danielle Lee last week: […]
About that maternity leave
Pranitha and Connie were talking about maternity leave during class. Courtesy of Think Progress:
Short Paper #1
As you know, your first short paper is due on Oct 17. Papers are due from all students enrolled for credit. Your paper should: Have a clear thesis statement. Draw on textual evidence from at least two of our readings. Be about 500-750 words. A few more tips: Your paper may be a personal reflective […]
Cyborgs, affinity, connection (Class on 10/10)
I’ve really been looking forward to class tonight. After class, I intend to turn this into a full blog post, Now what we have had class, I want to expand on this based on our conversation. We started class by watching this wildly popular recent clip of Louis CK. http://youtu.be/5HbYScltf1c We divided into small groups […]
Class and Lecture on Oct 10
Hi All, Emily started a poll to see who is interested in attending a talk at Barnard tomorrow evening in lieu of class (http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/habitual-new-media-exposing-empowerment/). Because the topic is so well suited to our course, I’d like to let those of you who were interested attend with her, while the rest of us will meet at […]
Video Dialogue Recording, Oct 1, 3:30-4:30
This comes by way of Anne Balsamo at the New School, one of the founders of the FemTechNet DOCC. I am planning to attend; I hope to see some of you there! ******** Video Dialogue: Katherine Gibson & Lucy Suchman Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Theresa Lang Community and Student […]
Haraway and Halberstam
Both of the readings for this week are available online. You can find Haraway here and Halberstam here on JSTOR. You have access to JSTOR articles through your home campus library holdings. If for some reason you have trouble with that, you should also be able to access if through a free account that will […]
