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MA CULTURAL STUDIES Student Research in Semiotic Analysis of Video Games and their potential for more diverse expressions of self identity, compared to ‘traditional’ media. University of Worcester
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For a current University assignment, we were tasked with creating some kind of presentation on a research method. I went with research activism and chose to use a blog. If interested visit here; researchactvism.wordpress.com

What should a postdigital cultural studies look like? Dr. Sarah Murry raises questions around digital economies of attention to answer our provocation, "What is Cultural Studies?" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020): https://buff.ly/3W5899k

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

Welcome to the public domain, Virginia Woolf's A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (1929), a pivotal feminist essay by one of modernism’s most innovative writers, advocating for women's creative independence. 🖋️ Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025 #PublicDomain

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Some interesting words about Universal Basic Income. The quote comes from the book: Bulllshit Jobs.

As books are burned & banned, it’s important that all of U.S. history is forever amplified and not hidden. The holiday season meant something very different for American slaves, my ancestors. ibw21.org/reparations/...

Ah New Years Honours, a pointless holdover of an antiquated system.

“Our technology requires parasitical theft to be profitable” is a bold gambit

"My own conclusion was psychologically it’s not that people want to work, it’s more people want to feel they are transforming the world in a way that makes some kind a positive difference to other people. In a way, that’s what being human is all about."

She was there before Elvis, Little Richard or Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. If you've never heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, you should.

Looking forward to reading this new #OpenAccess book on efforts to preserve digital artefacts:

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What IS cultural studies, anyway? We've asked the experts in our series "What Is Cultural Studies?" Dr. Ien Ang offers an answer in "On Cultural Studies, Again" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020):

I've put down this #RentControl amendment because spiralling private rents too often push people into poverty & homelessness We need this to be debated & acted on in Parliament - so please ask your MP to sign up to co-propose my New Clause 7 to amend the #RentersRightsBill @acornunion.bsky.social

During President Herbert Hoover’s repatriation program, nearly 2 million Mexican Americans, more than half US citizens, were deported without due process. Families were torn apart, and many children never again saw their deported parents.

Similar system is in place in the UK, always worth trying to request something if you need it.

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Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

“Middle classness is not really an economic category at all; it was always more social and political." davidgraeber.org/papers/anthr...

Why, in 2024, despite all our technological capacities, are we not working 3–4 hours a day? This question is posed in the work on #BullshitJobs

Nailed it.