Freelance journalists?
Anyone know a journalist who wants to do some freelance work for Berkman Center's Youth & Media Policy project? Drop me an email at t.senft@uel.ac.uk and I'll pass on your name to the great people...
View ArticleMicro-celebrity: Questions and answers with reporters
About six months ago, I did some question and answer stuff about micro-celebrity with students from the Columbia Journalism Review. I would change some of this now, but I still think it's a good primer...
View ArticleTen Statements from a "New Woman" in the Tech Sector
I’m writing this quickly, and may come back to edit later, but wanted to get my thoughts down:Recently, Clay Shirky asked why the women he teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Department at...
View ArticleMy YouTube-based Class Assignment this Semester.
Teachers reading here: Have you ever given a YouTube-based class assignment? Students reading here: Have you ever received one? I'm thinking of doing one in my Digital Media Cultures class this Spring....
View ArticleStay classy, Pennsylvania.
I'm trying to get some writing done on these cases in general, but can I just stop and say: What is the *deal* with Pennsylvania these days?First, there was the case of the female students who sued...
View ArticleTis the season to write abstracts
Writing an Abstract: From Terri Senft: t.senft@uel.ac.uk Many students working on abstracts find themselves panicked with "blank page syndrome." To help, I have developed a tool for you. This has...
View ArticleMicro-celebrity, charity, democracy? Decoding the Logic of Udorse
Here's my newest paper proposal for the Association of Internet Researchers Conference (this October in Sweden!) This paper is part of a larger (and awesome) panel I’ve proposed with the title,...
View ArticlePublic Lecture at UEL on 8 March at 5:30pm
--PLEASE PASS ON TO INTERESTED PARTIES--Hello, friends in London!I wanted to invite folks to join me next Tuesday at the University of East London Public Lecture Series, where I am giving a talk...
View ArticleAssessement questions: Digital Media Cultures
After the cut, you can find the assessment questions for my third-year undergrad Digital Media Cultures class. OPTION 1: MAKE AND ANALYZE YOUR OWN REMIX OPTION 2: Discuss the legal and ethical...
View ArticleThe Future Sex symposia project
My colleague Stephen Maddison and I are working to put together the symposia below. We just won a 'pump prime' grant from our university today ('pump prime' is another way of saying, "Here is some...
View ArticleOn ambivalence and ethnography
This week, students in a cyberculture class are asking me questions about doing ethnography. One of the students asked me to discuss the issue of ambivalence. Here is part of my reply:On Ambivalence:I...
View ArticleMy story (academically at least...)
A student asked me how I wound up doing what I do intellectually, and why I do it where I do it. It occurred to me that some of you might welcome hearing me tell this story. I dedicate this to folks...
View ArticleAbuse, harassment, stalking: some preliminary thoughts.
Here is something I wrote that I thought I would put out for other people's thoughts.A student recently asked, "Did any of the camgirls you interviewed for your book deal with cyberstalking or other...
View ArticlePrelim. thoughts on the Old Spice Guy (yes, I like him too)
I do not think it is an accident that a society willing to grant corporations the legal status of individuals is also a society that seeks 'community' with anthropomorphized brands. What the viral...
View ArticleConfession, discipline, pleasure
I wanted to talk a bit about confession.Pretty regularly, I talk to students who tell me they want to talk about confessional writing online. The cultural studies folks tend to want to focus on how...
View ArticleCamgirls and the politics of camp
A student asked me to discuss my thoughts on camgirls and camp performance. Here is my answer:In my work on camgirls, I was interested in a thinking through (some) camgirl performances through what...
View ArticleTrafficking Policies: UR Doing Them Wrong
One day, the world will grow up and stop dividing women into trafficked madonnas and sex worker whores. In the meantime, abuses continue in the name of saving the ladies. The always on-point Melissa...
View ArticleFrom Mad Men to Black Maids: Desire, Position and Cultural Critique
Television theorist Jason Mittell has just written a very thoughtful essay about Why he's not a fan of the show Mad Men. I have little patience for writers who spend their time hating, but he's doing...
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R.I.P. Thomas Joseph (T.J.) Senft (1969-2010)
On September 8, 2010, my youngest brother T.J. died after falling down the basement stairs of his home, which resulted in a fatal brain hemorrhage one week later. He was forty-one years old, and...
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Fame to Fifteen: My talk for TED
On Tuesday, November 2, I had the privilege of speaking at a TED Salon in London. The theme of the evening was 're-framing,' and my speech was called "Famous to Fifteen People: Re-framing Celebrity."...
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