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Speaking of post-truth, my very first reaction is censorship. In a sense they both exert their influence on the circulation of information as well as the distribution of knowledge. Since I brought up censorship, I want to first briefly talk about China’s state censorship in the new media era. The main function of China’s state … Continue reading Censorship and Post-Truth

CMST 67XXX Media Heterotopia Course Description This course explores the current digital media environment through the lens of cinema and media on a global scale. It questions how media works have been presented, represented, produced, circulated, and consumed and theorizes the current temporality with readings from film and media studies, new media studies, race studies, … Continue reading Media Heterotopia: A “Syllabus”

I am doing my thesis on queer game studies, so a lot of that is resonating with these two weeks. Since we have been talking about identification, I want to bring in a term, Lisa Nakamura's Identity Tourism, which then derives into Queer Tourism. Nakamura originally defines this in correspondence to the male Asian characters … Continue reading Identity (Queer) Tourism in Videogames

Since we talked about esports a little bit last Wednesday and I am very interested in it, I have some further thoughts on it, in relation to our class. I am a gamer myself and I pay attention to esports events from time to time, especially during world series times, I will keep track on … Continue reading On Esports