The Learned Fangirl asks: Is Social Media the new Pink Collar Ghetto of Tech? I'm so far removed from the tech industry that I couldn't begin to answer that; my guess is that there's something there, but perhaps that's not quite the right way to frame the question.
Eric Goldman writes up a recent Cyber Civil Rights symposium inspired by "law professor Danielle Citron’s two recent articles on online harassment of women: "Law's Expressive Value in Combating Cyber Gender Harassment" (Michigan Law Review) and "Cyber Civil Rights" (Boston University Law Review)." No easy answers to important questions, but some interesting thinking.
Terri Senft posted excerpts from two new thoughtful essays she's writing: From Personal Property to Speaking Subjects: Teens and the Right to Credit in an Attention Economy and Position paper: The Case of Online Micro-celebrity Gangsta Flirtation.
Lisa Nakamura in FlowTV on True Blood's Vampire Politics:
Given the program’s preoccupation with the South as a site of struggle over various types of social integrations, race is the program’s repressed thing, the thing that if we tune closely enough into we, we can faintly hear in the background. And it is repressed for a reason—race has had its day as a concern, the credit sequences depict it as part of an antique and literally crumbling or melting past. Race struggles were never sexy in the way that vampires are in this program; vampires are self-fashioning sexy subjects in ways unavailable to and indeed impossible for people of color.... [D]espite our supposedly post-racial state, True Blood lets human-vampire sex stand in for the racial affect that is promised in the credits, but cannot occur in the program itself.
An interview with Julian Breece, creator of Buppies, a new online soap opera on BET's website which looks promising so far. Breece also made a short film, The Young and Evil, which sounds intriguing.
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