Several years and several careers ago, I was an intern at a non-profit media literacy organization in Madison, WI. If you’re not familiar with the term or the concept of media literacy*, it is traditionally defined as: … the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms. We worked a [...]
Doctor Who fan/video historian Babelcolour recently updated his popular video overview/tribute to the Doctor Who universe, compiling clips from 226 Doctor Who storylines (told through over 784 episodes) from Doctor Who’s nearly 50 years on the air. It’s a great quick and dirty visual intro to Doctor Who for newer fans and lovingly done tribute; [...]
Big News! The Learned Fangirl is now on Facebook! “Why should I care?” you’re probably thinking. “I get spammed enough on Facebook by my elderly relatives.” Fair enough, but hear us out. If you like the TLF blog, then you’ll want to check out the TLF page for posts that we’re too lazy to flesh [...]
I’ve read about 5 or 6 blog posts in the past month or so about the popular social media campaign surrounding the latest Muppet movie. In the past few weeks, they’ve been everywhere: YouTube, Google +, Facebook, etc, and of course all the big social media marketing blogs are weighing in on what other social [...]
Like most people over the age of 25 on the Internet, I remember quite vividly the pre-social media internet landscape: the days of Tripod.com , BBS and web rings. Technically, a lot of this community-powered online interaction is “social media” as well, but for many of us back then it was simply called “goofing off [...]
Ever seen those square bar code-looking thingies on the bus or train or in a magazine and wonder what they were? They’re called QR Codes and they are being used increasingly in interactive marketing in the U.S. These little barcodes can store text or URL info and are used to point your phone to information [...]
Among music fans/geeks, the news circulated quickly (mostly on Twitter)`that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences – the folks that run the Grammys – plan to eliminate 30 of its categories , mostly to avoid redundancies among categories. Fair enough, right? Best Hawaiian Zydeco Instrumental Duo will probably only have one nominee every [...]
So now that you’ve read in the first post about the possibilities of using new technologies to transform the publishing industry in a potentially positive way, now read the tale of how Harper Collins is using another technology — e-books and their terms of service — to potentially shut down e-books in libraries. Overdrive, the [...]
I admit I sometimes struggle to come up with ideas for this blog. I love to write and I love riffing on ideas, but sometimes the Learned Fangirl format can be too formal for my tastes and I feel like I have to be too thoughtful and insightful, rather than just spilling out random word [...]
So Diana Lopez about two weeks ago decided to create a meme (several examples surrounding) called Privilege Denying Dude, that according to Colorlines writer Channing Kennedy stand[s] out [because] he directly, and strikingly, parodied the frat-boy culture that fuels much Internet comedy in the first place—privileged, incurious, and ready to educate you about what your [...]
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