Category Archives: Of Interest

There is a startlingly large pile of free books available in the AHCS hallway. You’ll pass right by them on your way to my office. If the McChesney reading got you interested in media ownership, some of these books may … Continue reading →

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COMS minors will notice a couple familiar names in the comments.

[The AHSA is super active and receives some support from the department. As we are a department of Art History and Communication Studies, they are hoping to get some communication studies minors involved and to start developing CS-themed activities] To … Continue reading →

The AUS Peer Tutoring Program is a free and voluntary based peer tutoring service that provides tutoring on an individual or group basis by matching a student who has requested tutoring for a course with a qualified student who has … Continue reading →

Volunteer Position- Art Souterrain On the 27th of February, 2010, Art Souterrain will launch the largest contemporary art exposition ever seen in Montreal. For fifteen consecutive days Montreal’s underground city will be transformed by the works of one-hundred renown artists … Continue reading →

danah boyd talks about “white flight” and Facebook vs. MySpace. We’ll be reading her on social networking in a couple weeks but this is an interesting preview and a bridge to Bourdieu.

“Everything’s Amazing, Nobody’s Happy”. To open tomorrow’s class, recommended by Raymond Tomasino (thanks Raymond!). If you see something that goes particularly well with a reading or topic we are about to discuss or just discussed, please do let me know. … Continue reading →

This is a great opportunity for music fans and those interested in the history of recording and the record industry. Johnston recorded Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Johnny Cash, and other icons of 1960s folk, folk-rock and country. Most … Continue reading →