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gURLculture: unpacking girlhood one website at a time
http://gurlculture.blogspot.com/
- Author: Jacqueline Vickery
- Listed in: Academics Blogging
- Tags: internet girls youth scholar thesis grad student
- Added on: Oct 2nd, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
I'm a second year Master's student in Media Studies at the University of Texas - Austin. My research interests include girls' studies, Internet studies, and youth culture. I use this blog as a forum to discuss my academic musings.
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Chain Gang - cuter in pink?
I have been on quite the writing sabbatical this summer; as in, I haven't written a thing! I'm just now getting back into a routine - teaching reading full time to kindergartners through the adult level and I'm back in marathon training. I guess I've...
Justice, finally
Awhile back I posted an entry about presenting a paper at the International Symposium of Online Journalism; the paper was titled The Megan Meier MySpace Suicide: A case study exploring the social aspects of convergent media, citizen journalism, and o...
Flow Conference 2008
I really am going to start updating this more frequently, really. But for now I'm quite pleased to announce that the Call for Responses for the 2008 Flow Conference is now up and running!Flow Conference 2008 is the 2nd biannual conference for FlowTV....
Scholarly Blogger? Take a survey!
I heard a very interesting panel about academic bloggers at Console-ing Passions. The researchers are trying to better understand the role blogs play in the professional and personal lives of professors and graduate students. If you are a blogger and...
Officially a master!
Today I turned in my Master's thesis - In Her Own Words: Analyzing Girls' Identities, Communities, and Cultures through Blogs - and I'm done with all my coursework, which means my MA degree is now complete. I must admit it feels very odd being done....
