Interacting with Masculinities: A Scoping Review

Gender is a hot topic in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Work has run the gamut, from assessing how we embed gender in our computational creations to correcting systemic sexism, online and off. While gender is often framed around women and femininities, we must recognize the genderful nature of humanity, acknowledge the evasiveness of men and masculinities, and avoid burdening women and genderful folk as the central actors and targets of change. Indeed, critical voices have called for a shift in focus to masculinities, not only in terms of privilege, power, and patriarchal harms, but also participation, plurality, and transformation. To this end, I present a 30-year history of masculinities in HCI work through a scoping review of 126 papers published to the ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) conference proceedings. I offer a primer and agenda grounded in the CHI and extant literatures to direct future work.Comment: 12 page

The Comics Grid: Year One

The Comics Grid. Journal of Comics Scholarship. Year One is an academic book licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License, based on a work at . The book contains a compilation of the peer-reviewed articles published on the Comics Grid Wordpress platform between January 2011 and January 2012. In 2013, The Comics Grid moved its main publishing platfrom to an Open Journal System and is now published by Ubiquity Press and continues its work as a full-fledged open access journal. (See links below). This compilation was edited by Ernesto Priego in London from January to April 2012. The original chapters were co-edited by the 2011-2012 editorial board, which included Roberto Bartual, Esther Claudio Kathleen Dunley, Michael Hill, Greice Schneider and Tony Venezia. The book’s cover and back cover were designed by Nicolas Labarre. The Comics Grid logo was first conceived by Greice Schneider using the Badaboom BB font. Brad Brooks was in charge of the editorial design. On 20th March 2012 we shared an initial limited digital edition test-release of 200 downloads of The Comics Grid, Journal of Comics Scholarship. Year One, including content published on this journal between January 2011 and January 2012. That test release edition was composed using Booktype. With many thanks to all the contributors, editors and peer reviewers

Renovations And Other Stories

Renovations and Other Stories is a linked collection of ten fiction stories that examines the ways by which women renew or restore themselves. The collection is set in the imaginary city of St. Clair, South Carolina, a town balancing historical accuracy with the sensational tourist industry; Carolinians who trace their ancestries back to the American Revolution with suburban newcomers; and the notion of cherishing the past with moving forward. Many of the characters struggle with identity, whether it is regional or feminine individuality. The protagonists must challenge self-image when faced with situations that make them reconsider their places in their marriages, schools, jobs, and in their lives. Relationships among women, especially mother-daughter bonds, are an important motif throughout the collection. These stories cover the lifetimes of two generations of Carolinian women. A baker struggles to break free of her Northern transient upbringing. A history student yearns to escape her past as a victim of bullying to form a new, confident identity while saying goodbye to her estranged mother. Another girl explores the confused social politics of the South which alienate her from a childhood friend. I intend to examine, through fiction, how people come to appreciate one another, often a moment too late, and how sometimes we completely misunderstand ourselves

The Post-Noir Novel: Pulp Genre, Alienation, and the Turn from Postmodernism in Contemporary American Fiction

This dissertation intervenes in critical debates about the aesthetic and ethical character of the contemporary literary moment by providing an in-depth case study of the evolving function of genre in the aftermath of postmodernism. It does so by examining the adoption and reinvention of the style, tropes, and themes of 1930s/40s hard-boiled crime fiction and film noir in a group of contemporary novels published between 1999 and 2013. The crux of the argument is that contemporary, post-postmodern writers turn to the noir tradition because it reflects a widespread sense of social alienation – of the estrangement of the individual from other people, from society as a whole, and even from oneself. In their reworkings of the genre, however, these contemporary authors seek ways of escaping that alienation and producing narratives of re-integration. The dissertation is divided into four chapters, each of which engages a theme appropriated from the classic noir period. The first chapter focuses on Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn and Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, two quasi-hard-boiled-detective novels that explore their protagonists’ mental states through a focus on the relationship between language and knowledge. The second chapter traces the deconstruction of the hard-boiled male archetype along the lines of sexuality and race in Megan Abbott’s The Song Is You and Mat Johnson’s graphic novel Incognegro. The third chapter analyzes the role of communications technology in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, comparing classic noir’s technological anxieties to contemporary concerns about the Internet. The fourth chapter turns to Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and China Miéville’s The City & the City to explore the significance of the city as a noir environment in contemporary literature. Overall, the dissertation offers one of the first thorough, systematic investigations into just what it means for contemporary writers to inhabit popular genres as a way of moving beyond postmodernism.Doctor of Philosoph

Visual Methodology in Migration Studies

This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, film, and mental maps, may be used to analyse the spatial presence of migrants. The second section addresses the processual building of narratives around migration, thereby using formats such as film and visual essay, and reflecting upon the ways they become carriers and mediators of both story and theory within the subject of migration. Section three focuses on vulnerable communities and discusses how visual methods can empower these communities, thereby also focusing on the theoretical and ethical implications of migration. The fourth section addresses the issue of migrant representation in visual discourses. The fifth and concluding section comprises of a single methodological chapter which systematizes the use of visual methods in migration studies across disciplines, with regard to their empirical, theoretical, and ethical implications. Multidisciplinary in character, this book is an interesting read for students and migration scholars who engage with visual methods, as well as practitioners, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, curators of exhibitions who engage with a topic of migration visually.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Gender in 21st century animated children's cinema

This e-book is the product of the activities carried out in the elective MA course 'Gender Studies: New Sexualities/New Textualities', taught in the Autumn/Winter semester of the academic year 2020-21, within the MA in Advanced English Studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. This collective volume authored by the students is focused on how gender is represented in current 21st century Anglophone animated children's cinema. The 57 films dealt with cover the period 2001-2020, from 'Monsters Inc' to 'Onward', and include analyses of film by Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Illumination Studios, Laika Studios, Blue Sky Studios and others

The Falcon 2016-2017

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The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature

This is an anthology of public domain texts from earlier American literature, collected by students, faculty, and alumnae of Plymouth State University as an OER alternative to expensive commercial anthologies. In addition to content from earlier editions, the 2018 edition adds four new sections: Where is American Literature Now?: Contemporary Connections, Earlier American Literature in Music, Female American (1767) Supplementary Readings, and Letters from an American Farmer (1767) Supplementary Readings. This file represents the state of the work at the end of 2018. Visit to see new and updated material visit https://openeal.pressbooks.com

The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature

In this third edition of The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, students collectively wrote a preface which encompasses their theory of American literature, added new texts and introductory headnotes, created companion essays on themes such as race in Uncle Tom\u27s Cabin and creative rewritings of Mary Rowlandson\u27s captivity narrative, and developed a new section entitled Where is American Literature Now?, which analyzes contemporary adaptations of Early American literary texts and themes. Students in future Early American Literature classes will read, remix, and contribute to this ongoing PSU-based anthology. A version of this work is also available on the Pressbooks platform at openeal.pressbooks.com