Posted on 23 November 2008 by Raizel
While no book can fully explore a culture, two recent books, Sheridan Prasso’s The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient and Veronica Chambers’ Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation, give a window into how different the lives of Asian women are from the pop [...]
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Posted on 23 November 2008 by keidra
Like other grown fangirls, I have a recent history of reading fantasy literature book series that I’m too damn old for. (Harry Potter, Twilight) While not an active fan of either, I’ve certainly followed both series, their subsequent status as a pop culture phenomenon and the resulting psychotic fan activity they’ve both engendered. (I’ll get [...]
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Posted on 17 November 2008 by Raizel
As the second in our series about the effective use of social media / social networking tools, this post focuses on Planet Money. At the same time much of traditional media seems to be imploding, the ongoing “Planet Money” news service is an example of old and new media working together successfully while using social [...]
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Posted on 14 November 2008 by Raizel
Thanks for reading our The Learned Fangirl ! A year ago, we excitedly started this blog (three posts in a day? what were we thinking?), moving from our previously less structured blog format. Who would have known when we started a year ago that our most popular blog post by almost a factor of ten [...]
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