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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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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 aspe...
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 Conferen...
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 co...
Console-ing Passions
I've spent the past four days at the Console-ing Passions conference in Santa Barbara. I'd forgotten just how beautiful that city is! The conference was pretty good, I got to hear some great papers. I...
International Symposium on Online Journalism
This weekend I presented at the International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas. I was on the Social Networking and User-Generated Content panel and I presented a paper called ...
Coffee, bagels, and thesis....
...oh my!Wow, so I abandoned this for longer than I ever intended. Between writing my thesis and writing conference papers, I'm a little burned out on "recreational' writing this semester. Initially I...
"That's a boy's job!"
A couple of weeks ago I had some of my female students tell me they didn't think a woman could be president because we are "too emotional." This really bothered me; I found it hard to believe that a 1...
Workity Work Work
(click on the image to view)I've been working like crazy lately, although that said, I do have a tendency to wait till about 5:00 to actually get started, and then stay up way too late working. Once I...
This is the life...
You know what the best part of winter break is? No, it's not the sleeping in, or the late nights of drinking with friends, or the lack of paper-writing, no doubt all these things are great, but I actu...
Making progress
I heard back from the IRB this week and was pleasantly surprised with the response. There were a few things they wanted me to add or re-word, but none of them related to the issue of identity. I was p...