Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation (University of Michigan Press, 2019). she/her/hers
Nov 9, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This is really important for media scholars: the narrative that Trump's supporters were merely unsophisticated victims of a talented demagogue repeats the "media effects" argument, which holds that media audiences internalize all messaging uncritically & have no agency. (1/n)
Media effects theory has always been used to justify censorship, b/c "the kids" will turn violent if they play violent videogames or listen to rap music lyrics that reference violence (for example). (2/n)
May 22, 2020 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
I know that many fathers already knew that being the primary parent means being interrupted all the time, but I'm sure some men are discovering this right now. Here's a thread about early television, motherhood, and interruption: (1/n)
Early daytime TV genres were invented on the premise that most ppl watching were women, most women watching were mothers, and all mothers are interrupted by their kids all the time. (2/n)
Jul 30, 2018 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Okay for no apparent reason other than I'm in the mood, I'm going to post a thread about Why Not to Go to Graduate School Right after College:
1. You will make a lot more friends from a lot more fields and walks of life if you just get out there and work for a couple of years. At grad school you will socialize with ppl in your chosen profession. Which is great. But you want *other* kinds of friends, too.
