One of the nice things about my academic research being focused on comic books is that it’s a lot easier to have random people respond to my thoughts (or spark them) than it would be if I were into something like medieval lit or something. When I asked people to give me ideas on gender…
Category: Academics
Academics, Comics
Help Me Pick a Book List
by mav • • 195 Comments
Academics, Comics, Gender & Sex, Infographics
Comics Starring Women – Visualization
by mav • • 15 Comments
What’s geeky? Comics and statistics. What’s really geeky? Using them both together. A couple months ago, I mentioned that I had been tracking sales on comics starring female characters. This was related to an academic paper I was working on (one that I am finishing up to present on Friday). My primary reason for tracking the sales was…
Academics, Comics, Imported From Facebook
Research Methodology: Female Superheroes
by mav • • 16 Comments
Ok. I’m working on something and I could use some feedback from the interwebs. This probably seems like a comic question, and it sort of is, but not really. So I’d like feedback from everyone. Say you were working on a paper and you needed to assess the relative popularity of female comic book characters.…
Academics, Movies
Most iconic movie scenes?
by mav • • 123 Comments
Academics, Comics, Pop culture
Come See Me at Wizard World Pittsburgh
by mav • • 5 Comments
If you live in or near Pittsburgh and like comics, or really even if you don’t, you should come to Wizard World Pittsburgh this weekend (Friday through Sunday). Max and I will be set up with a booth selling and signing our comic Cosmic Hellcats. We’ll be joined by several of the Cosmic Hellcat cosplay…
Academics, Technology
Illiterate in Multiple Languages
by mav • • 46 Comments
So I’ve mentioned before that I’m taking a class on the meaning of literacy, writing and publishing in a digital world (conveniently called “Digital Writing” because why not?). We were discussing a few articles in class this week that basically ask the question, why don’t writers (and for the sake of this conversation, we’ll define writers as…
Academics, Technology
on Wørds and Wisdom… redux
by mav • • 34 Comments
So I’ve been taking this class called Digital Media for my English PhD. It’s about… well, digital media… because you know, we’re like the masters of the English language and that’s what we came up with. Anyway, we’ve been talking a bunch about collaborative projects and such and we’re discussing Wikipedia this week. While reading…
Academics, Movies
What are your favorite movie posters?
by mav • • 37 Comments
Academics, Gender & Sex
Like a virgin… the raw data
by mav • • 22 Comments
So remember like a month ago when i asked people to help me come up with virginity quest films for a paper I was working on? I’m still working on that paper. Yesterday, while working on this with my project partner, Miranda, we decided to start tracking real life statistics on virginity. If you follow me…
Academics
Quick survey question: Who likes outlines?
by mav • • 52 Comments
Academics, Gender & Sex, Infographics, Technology, Website Reviews
Why digital humanities are sexy…
by mav • • 18 Comments
Ok, let’s say you’re a guy who’s spent most of your adult life carving out a career for yourself as a user experience designer and information specialist. You build a nice little life designing enterprise software solutions and websites for Fortune 500 companies. You’re not rich, but you’re comfortably entrenched in the middle class with a respectable disposable…
Academics, Imported From Facebook
on Summer School for Graduate Students
by mav • • 0 Comments
Hmm… I seem to have passed my French summer school class. Which is fortuitous, cuz it’s 10 days later & I don’t think I can remember any.