A recent article about Yelp! in The Atlantic has me thinking about student evaluations. 'Tis the season, after all...
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Perspectives
The Productive, the Constructive, the Bizarre: Adventures in Student Evaluations
F.ix E.verything M.y A.ss
Living here in New Orleans, one of the most striking conundrums about this series is that while its heartbeat lies with the culture of Black inhabitants, it seems their larger lives cannot be the focus –perhaps due to its audience of largely white and affluent viewers.
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Glee: The Countertenor and The Crooner, Part 3
Just as Chris Colfer provides a model for queer kids who have not yet been represented, so Darren Criss provides an equally significant alternative model for queer straightness.
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Neil Gaiman’s Doctor Who: Fan Service Meets the Junkyard Look
There's an illusion of transformative work here – although this seems to alter the rules of the Whoniverse, in fact it leaves all the game pieces in play as they were.
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The Rhythm of a City Out of Sync: The Disrupted Spaces of Treme
While season one seemed to chart the resiliency of New Orleans as a place, defined by its people and its culture, season two is digging into localized spaces and demonstrating their continued vulnerability in the wake of the storm.
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Glee: The Countertenor and the Crooner, Part 2
Chris Colfer’s is the first solo voice in recent memory to break into the mainstream as gender-queer, and as such, has become the site of both euphoria and anxiety.
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Dumpster Divers or Culture Jammers?: TLC’s Extreme Couponers
The Learning Channel's Extreme Couponing evokes surprise, and even disgust for the lengths to which people go to accumulate coupons, acquire products, and display their stockpiles. It fails, however, to thoroughly explore people’s motivations for their actions.
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Glee: The Countertenor and The Crooner
The popularity of Glee, and, in particular, these two singers, has made me think that American culture may finally be starting to break with the gender norms of male singing performance that have persisted for the last 80 years.
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Spaces of Speculation: How We Learned Osama Bin Laden Was Dead
As one of the first events of this magnitude that has taken place squarely within the Twitter era, Osama Bin Laden's death reveals the challenge facing traditional media outlets when Twitter runs rampant with speculation (and real reporting).
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The Big Easy Returns to the Small Screen
David Simon's Treme returns this Sunday for its second season. Antenna will be following all of the action with a weekly column on the program to be published each Wednesday.
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Egregious Product Placement? New Regulations in the UK
The UK now allows product placement in television programming, and their regulations on those placements perpetuate a false dichotomy regarding the logics and goals of product integration.
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Computer Games: Heart of the Humanities?
In what ways does the medium and its exploration connect with the traditional foci of humanistic study: life, death, friendship, love, work, play, language, learning, history, and so on?
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Watching the World’s Amazing Races
What I find frustrating about the show is not simply that it ends up Othering the world, but that it could be so much better. It’s like a B student who writes occasionally brilliant sentences, yet who isn’t trying hard enough.
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On (Not) Hosting the Session that Killed the Term “Acafan”
(Why) Do we need the term acafandom?
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The Unicorn That Roared
I know that even as the bad job market is a haunting reality for most grad students, it's also a gamble every one is clearly willing to take, deep down surely believing that they will beat the odds. After all, everyone whom they encounter and interact with has done so, right?
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