shouting loudly

I’d just sat down to pound out a post describing Nas’ awesome appearance on the Colbert Report, but Crooks and Liars saved me the trouble. Let’s just say the hip hopper disses the media in general and Fox specifically. Follow the link for full lyrics, which are on-point. It was the first time I’d heard [...]

As you may have noticed, we at ShoutingLoudly generally don’t discuss our personal lives in our posts, major developments excepted. Well, this is a major developments kind of summer for me, so here are some details. 1. I got a tenure-track job in the Hunter College Department of Film and Media Studies. This has meant [...]

The folks at American University have found another group of folks who need some clarity around copyright law and fair use, producing a “best practices” guide for online video producers. This is yet another in a series of projects designed to empower specific kinds of content creators to make meaningful use of the right to [...]

One of my enduring research interests is in the development of blogosphere into an organizing space for communities-of-interest. Blogging is generally treated as citizen journalism, with an assumption that the blog serves as a sort of personal megaphone, echoing out into cyberspace to greater or lesser (usually much lesser) effect. That’s an apt analogy for [...]