All you damn kids, get off my lawn!!! The thing I love about the internet: Anyone can say anything. Millions of voices, all having the potential to reach worldwide. My tiny stupid little blog has had readers from literally every continent. Including Antarctica. I can rant about comic books or movies or politics and rather…
Tag: research
Academics, Gender & Sex, Movies
Social Experiment: 50 Shades of Science
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Academics, Comics, Gender & Sex
Research Outsourcing: Rape Comics
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Academics, Comics, Gender & Sex, Infographics
Comics Starring Women – Visualization
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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, 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…
Gender & Sex, Photography, Website Reviews
Sexual Equality has been reached. Thank you, Cosmo!
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Models: Holly & Nikki ©2008, ChrisMaverick Forget gay marriage. That is so 2013! We have now truly reached sexual equality because Cosmopolitan has acknowledged the existence of lesbians and their need to have really benign sex tips written especially for them! Finally we have reached equality! Thank you Cosmo! Hilariously, Samantha…