Vienna – Week 3 photo dump
Special guest appearance this week by a Minneapolis craft beer staple.
Vienna – Week 2 photo dump
More pictorial randomness.
Vienna – Week 1 photo dump
Here’s a selection of almost random images from my first week in Vienna. Readers who want explanations for all of these will be disappointed. But I will note that the nice folks at the Diplomatische Akademie Wien are letting me stay in an apartment that is roughly twice the size of my space in Minneapolis […]
Hallo, Wien!
The real work doesn’t begin for me until after New Years, but today is my first full day in Vienna for a grant administered by the nice folks at Fulbright Austria. I’ll be teaching two MA seminars at the Diplomatische Akademie Wien (who are also nice folks!): “Digital Culture and Technology” in the upcoming trimester, […]
New look, new book, new syllabi
Regular visitors to this site . . . well . . . if such creatures exist, they probably need to get a life. At best, my blogging habits have always followed feast-or-famine cycles. And so regular visits — especially over the past year or so — would not have been a worthy use of most […]
Telling You What You Don’t Want to Hear
Last month, I got to experience — briefly, but enjoyably — my first WorldCon in Glasgow. This opportunity came my way courtesy of a kick-ass panel organized by Rachel van der Merwe, where she, Barbara Postema, and Greg Fuller provided the kick-ass bits, and I provided the short riff on Mrs., Davis I’ve shared below. […]
Another semester, another syllabus…
. . . or two. Fresh editions of “Media, Race, and Identity” and “New Telecommunication Media” (no, I haven’t done anything to get that outmoded title officially changed since last semester). As ever, there are some changes from previous iterations, though most of those are minor. My biggest regret is that I couldn’t quite find […]
The Blue Boys
Once upon a time, people used to make mix CDs. One of those people was a friend of mine, Aaron Caplan, and he started what he called a Burning Circle. It was a simple and delightful concept. 12 people. Each month, one of the 12 would make a mix CD, burn 11 extra copies of […]
Talkin’ bout media literacy
It’s a small thing, to be sure, but perhaps worth sharing anyway. A couple of weeks ago, a reporter for the UMN student newspaper talked with me briefly about media literacy and artificial intelligence . . . and it became part of a podcast episode. Little did I know that the reporter in question had […]
‘Tis the season…
…both for a new academic year getting underway, and for trying to fire up the blogging engine again on a regular basis once more. The former features fresh syllabi for my “Media Outlaws” and “New Telecommunication Media” courses. And the latter really is due for a fresh name. That’s a legacy title, which feels more […]