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- Media and America June 22, 2020
Somehow, the Republican Party and the GOP-leaning Fox News have convinced their audience — and even some people on the left — that their rhetoric and press represents the “real” ...
- Scaling Up My Business June 15, 2020
I’ve had an entrepreneurial mindset since my early post-college years. It was the Great Recession, and jobs were scarce. I started trying to carve my own path. The truth is, ...
- Angry Men and All-Female Ghostbusters September 29, 2019
The arrogance is what gets me. They call it “bad filmmaking” as though including women is some sort of cinematographic error and the thousands of people who worked on the ...
- Imposter Syndrome September 28, 2019
I once told a therapist that I was experiencing imposter syndrome and she said, “Oh, so you’re in a job that’s beyond your skillset?”
Way to make it worse, Doc.
Read the ...
- The Problem with Jean Twenge September 28, 2019
I remember Jean Twenge’s book Generation Me, in which she asserted that younger Gen X/Millennials were the most narcissistic generation in history. I’m still astounded that someone with her credentials ...
- New Freelance Business, New Personal Brand September 24, 2019
It happened. I went full-time freelance!
All year, I’ve been picking up extra writing work to help pay the bills. I learned a lot of hard lessons by participating in sites ...
- No Shame in Being Paid to Do What You Love September 24, 2019
Many of the people pushing this view of ‘you should write just for the love it’ can’t get paid for their writing or have never been paid for their writing.
When ...
- My Writing Indulgence September 21, 2019
The sunbeams smash through the thick white blinds, beckoning me to the world outside. Yet I am trapped at my computer, bound to my task, trying desperately to get all ...
- Will Future Historians and Archaeologists Study Social Media? September 21, 2019
People have always been writing down frivolous stuff. You think the cave paintings were all deep-thinking art? I’d venture not. And I may be biased, because I’m a marketer, but ...
- Beauty and the Beast as a Feminist Tale September 16, 2019
It bothers me so much when people say that Beauty and the Beast is about Stockholm Syndrome. It is about a girl’s love for her father and being able to ...
- Chamber Horror: A New Film Subgenre September 14, 2019
Chamber theatre is a style of theatrical production in which there is typically little to no set (and any set pieces are moved by performers as part of the show), ...
- The Persistent Role of Superstition September 13, 2019
In Michael Shermer’s groundbreaking book Why People Believe Weird Things, he explores different realms of superstitious beliefs as they connect to religion or conspiracy. Shermer points out that these beliefs ...
- My Time in the Mountains September 11, 2019
The road wound endlessly through the grey, fuzzy mountains. I was curled up in the backseat of my parents’ Accord, shifting to avoid the tingling in my feet as they ...
- TV’s Quirkiest Villains September 7, 2019
We all look to Disney movies for the villains we love to hate, such as Hades or Scar, and we’ve been blown away by some of TV’s complex antagonists, such ...
- How Women Feel on Labor Day September 2, 2019
As we prepare for barbecues, pool parties, or Hurricane Dorian, many mothers are finishing up the potato salad, getting the kids dressed, checking flashlight batteries, or doing laundry before the ...
- The Singular “They” August 25, 2019
As a writer and editor, I’m so glad that the singular “they” is becoming more accepted, for all the reasons you list and because it’s just. Damn. Easier. It’s taken ...
- Does the Media Control Our Minds? August 25, 2019
Science fiction has long explored, and warned of, our obsession with media and its power to control our thoughts. As propaganda efforts successfully encouraged complacency among citizens of Nazi-led Germany, ...
- My Circus Journey April 22, 2019
An old Tidy Cats container sits on the floor in front of the full-length mirrors. It’s no longer filled with what’s advertised but rather with a combination of chalk and ...
- Level Up: Master’s Degree December 27, 2018
This year, I finished my 144-page, 40,000-words master’s thesis. I have never written anything so long in my life. It was 6 years of off- and on-work. I left graduate ...
- Summer Spectacular: An Incredible 2 Months in Theatre Education September 14, 2015
I costumed 132 children this summer. All the pin pricks, hot glue burns, and carpal tunnel syndrome are worth the level of adorableness. I heard so many people praise our shows ...
- Anti-Bullying March for Day of Peace October 5, 2014
Believe it or not, for someone so socially conscious and politically active, I’ve never participated in a rally. Today’s Day of Peace rally was glorious. From the incredible music by ...
- A catch-up post May 14, 2014
A catch-up post: Recently I’ve been hunting footage for my minidoc on puppetry, which I’ll hopefully be submitting to a festival, working on my thesis project, which involves interviewing public ...
- Producing “Work is Cheap,” satire about retail [AUDITION] April 22, 2014
Audition for “Work is Cheap,” satire about retail, 4M 3W 4NG, Apr 28 5pm, Turlington Hall 2319 on UF Campus. Show is 5/17 at Broken Shelves.
- Nailed the Interactive Art Show!! March 2, 2014
Friday was an incredible night. I have run a combined variety/art show and an interactive art show at the Civic Media Center in the past year. I was striving for ...
- 2014 Here We Go! January 27, 2014
Accomplishments so far:
The Peppermint King at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre: My true producer debut. I’ve been building viral and visual promotional strategies for this innovative new show at the ART. ...
- Teatro de los Muertos November 4, 2013
My anthology of 5 short plays about death and dying, Teatro de los Muertos, was a hit.
A collection of responses:
My mother:
Thankful for my children and what they have accomplished by ...
- Teatro de los Muertos: Day of the Dead Play Festival October 24, 2013
Nov. 1 and 2, 2013, at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre! I am very proud of my brilliantly talented cast. I was extremely lucky to get an ensemble with such chemistry ...
- Publication of Bullying News Media Analysis [ABIBS Research Update] October 1, 2013
Exciting news: My semantic analysis of news articles on bullying, that I presented at the IASESP conference in April, was accepted for publication in the Journal of Contemporary Anthropology Vol. ...
- Ethnography Photography of the Wild West [PHOTOBLOG] August 15, 2013
Check out this gallery of photographs by photojournalist Timothy O’Sullivan, who documented the interactions among settlers and Native Americans in the Old West. O’Sullivan’s ethnographic style and eye for detail ...
- Cultural Exchange through the Movies (LINK) July 6, 2013
Americans may feel privileged to have such access to films and television. Indeed, we’ve reached (perhaps even surpassed) a saturation point in entertainment media. What we forget is that audiovisual ...
- Teatro de los Muertos: New Play! June 3, 2013
This has been completed for some time, but Teatro de los Muertos, the anthology of plays about humans’ encounters with death and the deceased, will be produced this November at ...
- Documentary to Shoot this Fall (ABIBS Research Update) May 2, 2013
Great news!
I have navigated the maze that is IRB paperwork, and got approved! I will begin my documentary project (stage 2 of ABIBS—Anthropologically Based Investigation of Bullying in Schools), in ...
- Bullying Paper Presented at Conference (ABIBS Research Update) April 27, 2013
Today I presented my semiotic content analysis of news articles on bullying for my Media Anthropology class last fall, at the 9th Annual Conference of the International Association for the ...
- Public and Visual Anthropology (Research Update) March 1, 2013
Snapshots of upcoming guest lecture for a section of the Sex Roles in Cross-Cultural Comparison course at the University of Florida:
The problems with women and Hollywood include massive underrepresentation (TV, ...
- My Article on the Anthropology of (and via) Social Media… February 27, 2013
…Published in UF’s graduate student newsletter The Grad Cannon! Check it out.
- In Defense of the Social Science Majors January 19, 2013
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the worth of anthropology in the education system and job market. First, let me just say that it is distressing that universities, ...
- The Impossible: How Important Is Ethnicity in “True Story” Films? (LINK) January 16, 2013
The Oscar-nominated The Impossible has received a lot of flak for casting white British actors in the story of a Spanish family who experienced the 2004 tsunami while on vacation ...
- ‘The Art Guys Marry A Plant’ Removed From Menil Collection Under Mysterious Circumstances (LINK) January 16, 2013
Fascinating example of the interaction of social biases, art, and politics.
When the Art Guys married their sapling, “the whole thing was an environmentalist gesture,” The Believer expressed in their profile ...
- Inherited Discrimination January 15, 2013
Recently I Facebooked this post from Bunnika discussing the relative vs. actual progress for women’s rights, and the rhetorical strategies of men’s rights advocates. She demonstrates how men’s rights rebuttals often ...
- The Role of Competition in American Movies (LINK) January 15, 2013
This short essay on Sociological Images discusses a trope in American film. As a capitalistic society, one would expect themes of competition and conquest to dominate our culture. Interesting, isn’t ...
- Women in Hollywood: What the Awards Season Tells Us January 10, 2013
The Oscar nominations have been announced, and the honeymoon period of a post-“Bridesmaids” and “The Help” Hollywood seems to be over. As a Women’s Media Center feature notes, the number ...
- Sexualized Advertising…of Kids’ Products? November 14, 2012
Somewhat of a departure from the topics we’ve been discussing of late, but interesting: A Knox College study of young girls brings to light factors of self-sexualization:
Media consumption alone didn’t ...
- Photography and Making Meanings November 14, 2012
Currently at UF’s Harn Museum of Art is the wonderful “Modern Impulse” photography exhibition. It’s a stunning collection of beautiful, sometimes disturbing images from America and Europe between WWI and ...
- Naming Through Name Brands November 5, 2012
I have been so busy with papers that I haven’t had enough creative juices left to write a blog post. But the documentary on graffiti artists reminded me of something ...
- Activist Filmmaking October 29, 2012
The Amazon rainforest, the sweaty locale of many films, both entertainment and documentary, has many connotations: mystical, dangerous, exotic, native, prehistoric, medicinal, potent, endangered. It is constructed, often as an ...
- The Internet vs. the Studios in the Success and Marketability of Movies October 29, 2012
In the golden age of Hollywood, movie producers were largely responsible for obtaining funding and personnel for productions; within the confines of the studio system and without a big-name producer ...
- Activist Filmmaking October 29, 2012
The Amazon rainforest, the sweaty locale of many films, both entertainment and documentary, has many connotations: mystical, dangerous, exotic, native, prehistoric, medicinal, potent, endangered. It is constructed, often as an ...
- Dystopian TV Shows and Films: An Introduction October 8, 2012
Dystopian settings have been a staple of speculative and science fiction for over a century. While Jules Verne was penning his tales of great feats of engineering, incredible new worlds, ...
- Intellectual Discussion, Smart Entertainment…Dead and Gone? October 3, 2012
Check out this stirring article on the death of theatregoing culture and the rise of new media. A couple of excerpts.
Film culture, at least in the sense people once used ...
- Retail Hell: Blame Privatization September 28, 2012
Cross-posted on class blog, Misanthropologist.
The study of customer service seems primarily reserved to business-oriented, sociological research, or so my database searches would suggest. However, it is certainly a problem for ...
- Why Retail Sucks: Difference Between the Haves and Havenots September 27, 2012
The study of customer service seems primarily reserved to business-oriented, sociological research, or so my database searches would suggest. However, it is certainly a problem for anthropology. Bullying behavior does ...
- “Us vs. Them”: How the Media Can Breed Hate and Inequality…or Love and Social Change September 24, 2012
As most anthropologists know, the roles that people inhabit and are assigned in society are neither inherent nor permanent. Categories and classes of people are historically built, and change occurs ...
- Bullying in the Media September 17, 2012
My primary research interest, and my intended career, is to work in and study film and theatre as means of social change. Obviously this is a broad area with many ...
- Go On, Get Cultured: Big-T Theatre vs. little-T (movie) theatre September 11, 2012
I once went with a friend to see a production of Proof at my university’s theatre. I was a student there and worked both in the shop and on the ...
- Anthropology is Huh???…the National Geographic Effect September 10, 2012
When I tell people I am studying anthropology, I quite frequently get one of these responses:
“So you dig up pots?”
“So you study dead people?”
“So you look for dinosaur bones?” (yes, ...
- Anthropology: the Professional, the Philosophical, and the Practical September 10, 2012
When I tell people I am studying anthropology, I quite frequently get one of these responses:
“So you dig up pots?”
“So you study dead people?”
“So you look for dinosaur bones?” (yes, ...
- The Art of Immersion: Found Footage and Classical Film August 28, 2012
The “found footage” genre (style?) of filmmaking was wildly popularized for the horror genre beginning with the (in)famous Sundance entrant “The Blair Witch Project,” and judging by the apparently exhaustive ...
- Videoblog: “Prima Donna” April 3, 2012
Here it is… the final cut of Prima Donna, for which I designed and built costumes, did on-set makeup, and decorated the set alongside production designer Josh Warden. Filmed in ...
- Linkblog Double Feature: “Bully” March 30, 2012
Okay, I admit, I might be a little disappointed that someone beat me to creating a major documentary film on bullying. But truthfully, there can never be too many, and ...
- Violence in America: The Teenage Menace vs the Teenage Martyr March 27, 2012
It’s an understatement to say that the shooting of Trayvon Martin has raised tempers and stoked debate nationwide. Every question of violence, from the justifications thereof to the definitions of ...
- Bookblog: Teenage Mystique + Entitlement = ?? March 23, 2012
I’d propose the answer is bullying, although the equation is of course not that simple. My private research has suffered a little recently as I’ve been preoccupied with rehearsals for ...
- Memetics, Schematics, and Cultural Genetics February 6, 2012
Recently I came across a reference to memetics, which I had heard of and frankly dismissed as a conflation of the biological and cultural, similar to UG, in a way ...
- Bookblog: Self-justification, the engine of bullying February 4, 2012
In my previous bookblog, I discussed the rise of cultural narcissism, particularly among adolescents, and its social and psychological implications. My working hypothesis:
In the United States of America, bullying and ...
- Self-Justification: Why People Do Crappy Things, Part 1 February 4, 2012
Cross-post with Eponymy’s Delight:
In a recent post I offered a hypothetical example of a bullied teenager whose diagnosis of “mental disorder” absolves his tormentors of responsibility, and even bolsters their ...
- Linkblog: Can we stop diagnosing and start solving? February 2, 2012
As anyone slightly familiar with psychiatry knows, psychiatrists reference a text called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders both when diagnosing the source of their patients’ troubles and ...
- Thanksgiving…let’s be thankful we’re the best country in the world November 28, 2011
It is commonly taught and widely believed that Thanksgiving is the anniversary of a feast between the Pilgrims, who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1621, and the native population. Yet ...
- Thanksgiving, the Celebration of Consumerism and Cultural Dominance November 24, 2011
I don’t meant to smash Thanksgiving as it means to a lot of people: a time for families and friends to gather and give thanks for each other and for ...
- Fountains Are Silly November 24, 2011
n. fountain: a soothing or exciting spray of water upward from a body of water for aesthetic and relaxation reasons
Fountains are so ubiquitous that they have become part of our ...
- The Misanthropologist Descends November 24, 2011
My experiences as an American and my training as a cultural anthropologist have led me to one conclusion: People suck. It’s become custom among modern anthropologists to emphasize cultural relativism ...
- Bookblog: The Cultural Roots of Bullying October 31, 2011
Thanks to Dr. Jean Twenge, one of my key questions, i.e. key aspects of my core hypothesis*, is a step closer to being answered, by accounting the self-esteem movement as ...
- Videoblog: “The Milkman”…my makeup and special f/x in action! October 31, 2011
- Bookblog: Back to the Fandom Study September 16, 2011
Sadly, my investigation into the bullying phenomenon is going to have to wait for a professional or academic backer. In the interest of not making this project too difficult for ...
- Videoblog: Stand Up to Bullying! June 22, 2011
Excellent PSAs of high production quality…this is what visual anthropologists can do. (On a related note…the anti-tobacco PSAs of Florida are shockingly effective.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWJut7KQhI4&w=425&h=349
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJxqvalFxM&w=560&h=349
- Ah, the joys of independent research and visual anthropology June 16, 2011
What do you do when you want to conduct research, but not through a school, not for the government, not through an agency, and not for the paper? Nothing. I ...
- Bullying Shall Have No Mercy from Me! (Updated) May 20, 2011
I briefly mentioned my bullying project (or rather, anti-bullying project) investigating bullying from the perspective of educators and lawmakers when I posted an excerpt from my research statement. After several ...
- Screenplay Coming Along April 12, 2011
I am participating in Script Frenzy this year, a free event in which writers churn out a screenplay, teleplay, stage play, or graphic novel during the month of April. I ...
- Bullying = arrested development + violence (Research Focus) March 5, 2011
The project began last September as research to help activist efforts for anti-bullying programs, driven by my deep sadness at several high-profile bullycides in 2010. Upon finding the very thorough ...
- Videoblog: Bullying of Gays October 19, 2010
Check out this video for the It Gets Better Project, on the ramifications of a teacher’s turning a blind eye to bullying. The anti-bullying laws on the books in states ...
- Bullying: a silent killer October 19, 2010
Bullying has received nationwide attention thanks to a string of high-profile suicides prompted by relentless bullying. Tagged an “epidemic,” “media hype,” and everything in between, public outcry and legal action ...
- Welcome! October 4, 2010
You’ve stumbled upon my blog. This blog will be a growing project attached to my portfolio website, which will be in constant development over the next few months. Eventually you ...
- Bros before hos…so fros before ros. October 4, 2010
Much was said about the bromance in “I Love You, Man,” released in 2009. There have been “buddy cop” movies for years, but they focused on comical pairings playing on ...
- My Life As a Zombie Extra October 4, 2010
“I’m going to be a zombie!” I excitedly told my friends last January. “Huh?” was their usual response. Once I’d gotten the email, I sped to Facebook and trumpeted it ...
- Rules of Cinema and Books October 4, 2010
Rule #1. The book is always better. Why? Because characters are more fully explored than they are in movies. This is for the simple reason that movies must be compact ...