D. Travers Scott's Blog, page 5
April 26, 2011
Teaching in Brussels this Sumer
I'll be teaching a class on trends in new media this June at the Thomas J Clemson University Brussels Center in Belgium. Give a shout if you'll be in the area!
April 8, 2011
Anniversary dinner with the hubby-- 11 years tonight!
Anniversary dinner with the hubby-- 11 years tonight!
March 5, 2011
Only slightly vexed that Miss Ross did not sing "Chain Re...
Only slightly vexed that Miss Ross did not sing "Chain Reaction" tonight.
February 25, 2011
Apparently I wrote a book about the OJ trial: http://ping...
Apparently I wrote a book about the OJ trial: http://ping.fm/n5CnX
February 17, 2011
Extended application deadline for our new MA in Communica...
Extended application deadline for our new MA in Communication, Technology & Society at Clemson University. Details: http://ping.fm/PGJ1G
New Comm-Tech-Society MA at Clemson Univeristy: Extended Deadline
Launching our new MA in Communication, Technology, and Society is a very exciting part of my new position as Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Clemson University. This program will examine technologies and social media from a Communication perspective -- with all the variety and diversity that implies. In addition to committee work, as an instructor I will be contributing my
February 10, 2011
Accepted for special American Quarterly on Sound Studies
My essay, "Intimate Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927-1964" has been accepted for a special sound studies issue of American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association.The essay explores a historic role of a sound technology, telephony, in assessments of desirable people, especially people as its ideal and sanctioned user-consumers, as conveyed by
January 12, 2011
Queer Media in the Age of E-invisibility
My new review essay is out now in the International Journal of Communication. In it I talk about the disappearance of queer infrastructure (bookstores, newspapers) and the politics of visibility while reviewing Mary Gray's Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America and Christopher Pullen's Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media.
January 3, 2011
New article on interactivity & postfeminism
I've got a new scholarly publication in Feminist Media Studies, "The Postfeminist User: Feminism and media theory in two interactive media properties." Here's the abstract:This paper is part of a preliminary investigation toward a postfeminist analysis of "the user." It critically examines the pervasive liberatory rhetoric of interactivity through situating it within a widespread cultural context
December 28, 2010
Review: Best Gay Stories 2010
Out in Print has a review by Jerry Wheeler of the new collection I'm in, Best Gay Stories 2010D. Travers Scott's brilliant "It's Not You" both blurs and delineates, alternating sections titled "Fiction" and "Journal" as he gives an account of an "affair" between the story's narrator and a straight boy. While not exactly idyllic, the fictional portions are more romanticized than the shorter,
