Next Meeting THU 10/2, 5-6PM (340 Moffitt)

Join us for a special visit from Abigail De Kosnik, the Berkeley Center for New Media's most recent faculty addition and a new assistant professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies.

We will be discussing a short piece, "Performing Transnational Anti-Fandom: Filipinos Protesting The Daily Show and Desperate Housewives Online," available at the following URL: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg8xmf5b_80gd57qsp2.

Next Meeting THU 9/18, 5-6PM (340 Moffitt)

We will be meeting to discuss the last chapter from Lisa Nakamura's most recent book, Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (2008), entitled "Measuring Race on the Internet: Users, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the United States."

Please note that we will NOT be meeting in the Rhetoric/Film library. The new location for our meetings is the recently opened Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, right next to the Free Speech Movement Cafe (http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/commons/moffitt). We will be meeting twice a month, on Thursdays, for the remainder of the semester.

For NMWG announcements:
http://ucbnewmedia.blogspot.com/

For our schedule and links to our readings:
http://nmwg.notlong.com/