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Summer conferences

I'll be participating in the THATCamp unconference on digital humanities May 17 in New Orleans. I'll also be at the International Communication Association meeting in London June 17-21 as new co-chair of the LBGT Studies Special Interest Group. If you're at either event, say howdy!

PSB / Eisenstein Essay Acepted for Publication

My essay on UK pop duo Pet Shop Boys' soundtrack to Sergei Eisenstein's silent classic, Battleship Potemkin, has been acccepted for publication in the journal Music, Sound, and the Moving Image (Liverpool University Press). The essay proposes refining the concept of "resonance" from sound and media studies as a refinement of "intertextuality."

My TedX ClemsonU talk online now

"What Drag Queens Taught Me About Teaching," my TedX ClemsonU contribution.

Conference Presentations 2012

I'll be presenting research, attending, or otherwise involved at the upcoming conferences, as indicated:

- Marxism and New Media, Duke University, Durham, NC:  Jan. 20-21. Attending.

- Southern States Communication Association, St. Anthony Hotel, San Antonio, TX: April 11-15. Presenting "'Hooking Up' in International Techno-Horror: Feminism, Reproduction, and Users" and  "Great Ideas For

Free Speech Essay

My essay, "Free Speech Inside and Outside of Civil Rights Movements," appeared in a recent issue of Communication Currents.

"I want to consider a few different types of free speech in regards to civil rights and social justice movements. The first is most familiar: a minority cause or disempowered group speaking to larger society. ... However, I want to point out another type: free speech

There's a jazz pianist in the food court at the Atlanta a...

There's a jazz pianist in the food court at the Atlanta airport

At a CD release party for Wasted Wine and geeking out th...

At a CD release party for Wasted Wine and geeking out that their album title is a Foucault quote: Perpetual Spirals of Power and Pleasure.

CFP: ICA Preconference, "Historiography as Intervention"

Hey, I'm organizing a preconference for the Communication History Interest Group of the International Communication Association:














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My essay, "Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Te...

My essay, "Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927–1962," is out now in the new American Quarterly, a special issue on sound studies: http://ping.fm/McDkO

Telephony essay in American Quarterly

My essay, "Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927–1962," is out now in the new issue of American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association. The special issue on sound studies, "Listening to American Studies," is guest edited by Kara Keeling and Josh Kun. Several articles, including mine, have supplementary media at the extended remix website.