Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about the burgeoning (more like explosion) of global youth culture, a “community of youngish people, roughly from 14 to 35, who share a love of mainstream popular culture including music, movies and fashion and acknowledge a shared mindset with others in their age bracket around the world.” I [...]
Posted on January 20th, 2010 by DeepthiW
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I’m not sure why, but I just created the syllabus for a class I just made up called “Intertextual Representations of Resistance and Difference across Global Media.” Of course it could be better, but I’d love to teach it!
Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangaremba
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Season of Migration to the North, [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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I just don’t even know where to begin with how this will change modern life. Just watch and get ready for a glimpse of the future that you didn’t know was coming so very soon, but thanks to Pranav Mistry, has been developed as open source and ready to improve a lot of people’s lives [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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There was an interesting post on Sociological Images (introduced to me by Katharine) about the “Slumdog Shooting technique.” I responded to it because I feel rather strongly that the postcolonial response to imperialist representations in modern media has taken a hypersensitized and cynical turn with the critical response to Slumdog Millionaire which originated the term [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Wes Anderson’s new movie Fantastic Mr. Fox takes a beloved children’s book–his beloved book from childhood I assume–and turns it into a film for adults–I’m hearing tales of kids leaving the theatres disappointed and bewildered. Spike Jones and Dave Eggers transformed Where the Wild Things Are in a very similar vein, bringing the sad weight [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Yes, it is the rather pitiful truth that after swearing off doing mass amounts of free labor post two internships and countless other volunteer projects, the project that broke down my resolve to never again work for free was a labor conference.
Every free moment I’ve had for the past month has been consumed by planning [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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This article in Wired was a fascinating read especially right after having heard a presentation on the fiber optic cable industry. It seems Google/Youtube is a major player in this arena (I suppose there’s no point in being surprised about yet another area of the web that Google dominates) after having purchased unused fiber optic [...]
Posted on October 17th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Short paragraphs punctuated by numerous images, preferable some animated gifs included in the mix. I really like the deployment of this format on This Recording, where the writing tends to be sprawling, referential, funny, and occasionally deep, a nice mix of the superficial and critical lenses my brain uses to break down life into manageable [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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So much work is being done in the digital realm, from Facebook using members to translate pages for free, to Wikipedia’s volunteer reference work, to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program. Not to mention all the creative folk participating in contests for the off chance that their creation (usually based on hours and hours of work) will [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Ok, this is probably my last Mad Men post, having done two already (here and here), I think I’m ready to be finished thinking about what doesn’t quite work for me about the show–even though I watch it pretty regularly.
Mad Men is all about details, whether in historical accuracy, beautiful sets, or subtle interplays between [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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