Category: All blog entries
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Patient power … or not?
Yesterday I stumbled across a CNN story entitled “Mom won’t be forced to have C-section.” Of course, because of my areas of interest, this immediately grabbed my attention. As it turned out, the reason the expectant mother in the story won’t be forced to have a C-section is because she…
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Course Project Proposal
In my course project, I plan to examine the relationship of reproductive technology and culture. My purpose is to interrogate two main ideas: how institutions prescribe technology to fit particular cultures as well as how individuals appropriate technologies and enculturate those technologies on their own behalf. This examination will involve…
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On Indigeneity
This week we are examining Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart’s Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics. Partly because all members of our class are reading the Introduction (while the other reading is dependent on personal choice) and partly because of my fascination with definitions, I’d like to begin by…
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Facebook vs. MySpace
I just happened upon this CNN story about the “class divide” between Facebook and MySpace. (The article also discusses several other social networking technologies, though Facebook and MySpace are the foci.) While I think this article articulates a feeling that most users of the sites already deal with, at least…
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Black Barbie
This ought to cause a stir. Mattel has announced it will release “a new line of African-American Barbie dolls, with fuller lips, a wider nose, and curlier hair.” Although, as a visual rhetorician, mention of Barbie usually gets my back up, I have to say I’m kinda impressed with this…
Erin Anne Clark 