Characters & Relationships in ASMR
I spend a lot of time thinking about ASMR and the fictions it creates and the relationships it stages, all of which we didn’t really have...
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Virtual Stillness and Intimacy in the Always-On Image
When reading Hodge’s ‘Vernaculars: The Always-On Image,’ I kept thinking of the recent show at the MCA, ‘I Was Raised on the Internet.’...
The Significance of the Selfie in the Always-On World
When reading through Hodge's article, two questions stood out to me concerning the selfie: 1.) what is the significance of the always-on...
Death of a Machine: Technological Dependence
This week during class, someone up the fact that we, as a society, treat our technology like it is an extension of ourselves; we take...
Beyond Cauliflower
In “Are Some Things Unrepresentable?” Galloway articulates two theses about networks: “Data have no necessary visual form” and “only one...
First Rule of Fight Club: the Impacts of False Security in Private Groups
When I joined Gross Girls Club over a year ago, I immediately understood the group as a ‘fight club’ for women. The rules were simple:...
"In the Eyes of the Animal"
I’d like to go a bit more in-depth with the usage of VR with the environment presented by Marshmallow Laser Feast. Marshmallow Laser...
The war of image vs. text: are selfies gendered?
I stumbled on this book called the Alphabet versus the Goddess, by Leonard Shlain, which I admit I’m not entirely sure what to make of...
Thoughts on Genre
It seemed like several of us were working in our presentations to define the boundaries around genre. So I want to expand on the one...
The accelerated, habitual changes of a networked, small-s sovereign
...This title for me is an attempt to recreate the melodramatic dialect of the recent-past era of blogging, specifically on LiveJournal,...
Considering Sex and Gender in ASMR
In researching and exploring ASMR, I became intrigued by its relationship to sexuality and the apparent gendered and racialized aspects...
on wonder
As a young teenager, I was not athletic or otherwise cool by any metric of the term relevant to that moment. To the extent that I was...
Is There Something Orientalist About Wonder?
This is meant to be a moment to consider Journey’s relationship to Orientalism, not as a critique of the game, but as an analysis of how...
Pleasures and Anxieties of the Networked Refrigerator
Preface: I have a propensity for starting conversations in my head then finishing them out loud. I assume this is why my final comments...
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In his discussion of GIF exchanges in instant message conversations, James Hodge remarks that “receiving a text message with a reaction...
Can Fore-Giveness move the Internet Beyond Neoliberalism? I Hope So.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s introduction to her book Updating to Remain the Same provides, in my opinion, a compelling critique on networked...
The Embedded Narratives of Horror Games
Playing Gone Home this week and discussing other “walking simulator” games such as Dear Esther has kept me thinking about the role of...
Narrative Architecture & Embedded Narrative, Still Relevant?
In his article “Game Design as Narrative Architecture, Henry Jenkins describes a number of ways in which narrative can be inserted into...
Digital Spaces: A Looking Glass?
In our readings for last week, I was particularly struck by Murray’s (1997) subsection on digital environments as being spatial. She...
D&D in a Digital Age
The pieces by Henry Jenkins and Janet Murray that we read this week, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture” and “From Additive to...
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