Category: Media ecology
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Year Two In one week, I begin my second year of PhD coursework (year two of three!) before I even reach the next mountain: comprehensive exams. To get there, I’ll need to become bilingual and complete an extensive additional reading list, on top of classes and research. Then, once comps are passed comes the dissertation,…
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On outlines, color hacks, and trash that isn’t trash. The purple flowers in the women’s bathroom are coming to life — I added brown outlines yesterday, and they’re giving everything more structure, more focus. Funny how one color can change the entire energy of a wall. I also started in the men’s bathroom. The boys…
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Habitual regret maintenance Sad jobs and small lives Still Facebook friends in a normalized comparative social voyeurism kind of way. What a loud lonely. Tune in to your favorite ideation station. We consume and call it rest. We leave no space and say we have no time, when we have decided both the value and…
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One part of the PhD process at Duquesne College is to read and summarize an extensive reading list, in addition to in-class readings, before we sit for comprehensive exams. The intention behind this is wildly worthy, as the importance of acknowledging what came before you is crucial to contributing to a conversation that has started…
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So I went to Mexico City to join my Media Ecology pals for our annual conference. A couple days before we left my husband and I were at an Allison Krauss / Union Station concert and he was noticing my distraction as a started typing into my phone. I blame live music in the best…
Tiffany Petty Gilliam 