Talks

People come to a page like this for a range of reasons. If you simply want to see what I look like speaking, here is a quick YouTube clip of me from the documentary, Camgirls. Apologies in advance for the hair. And the blouse.

For the whole enchilada, here are my talks in reverse chronological order

2015

  • Affect Theory Conference, Pennsylvania. Invited Guest Speaker for PhD workshop entitled, “From Clickbait to Triggers”: Theorizing the Grab. Forthcoming, October 2015.
  • Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Arizona. Invited speaker for panel devoted to developing a Social Justice Caucus at AoIR. October 2015.
  • International Communications Association Annual Conference, Puerto Rico. May 2015, Invited speaker. Talk title: “When My Medium is Your Message: Internet Memes and the Ethics of Photographic Re-appropriation.”

2015

Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Daegu, Korea. October 6-10. Organizer of three interlocked panels on “Selfie Culture.” Proposal is here. Presentation on methods is here.

Re-Materializing Feminisms. London, U.K. June 5-8. Cooperative venture between Institute of Contemporary Art, The Showroom, & Arcadia Missa Gallery. Keynote speaker. Talk title: “Selfie Lucida.”

International Communication Association, Seattle, WA. Pre-conference on GLTB Issues. Talk title: “Epistemology of the Second Selfie.” Slides are here, and a crazed headless recording exists here.

Rutgers Symposium on Social Media & Psycho-Social Well-being.” Rutgers University, New Jersey. Plenary speaker. Talk title, “When I Hear the word ‘Empower,’ I Reach for my Revolver.” Slides are here.

2013

Studying Social Media Activism: Special Workshop. Manchester University, U.K. Keynote speaker. Talk title: “My Belongs to Me? Femen and the Trouble with Socially Mediated Shock Politics.” I gave this talk topless (no, really), so there is no documentation. Sorry!

2012

Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Salford, UK., October 2012. Plenary Speaker with Zizi Papacharissi and Daniel Miller. Talk title: “Hating Habermas: On Exhibitionism, Shame & the Life on the Actually Existing Internet.” This talk became this essay, here.

Digcult 13 Conference, Salford University, UK. June 2012.Keynote speaker. Talk title: “Everything I Know about Internet Theory, I Learned from the Camgirls.” Slides from talk are here.

Manchester Digital Media Network Workshop: 2: Methods and Challenges of Researching Social Networking Sites. University of Manchester, U.K. April 2012. Keynote speaker. Talk title: “Facing the Other in Digital Space: Ethics, Flesh, Image, Icon.” Recording of talk available here.

2011

Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Seattle, WA. October

South by Southwest Interactive Conference, Austin, TX. April 2011.

  • Invited panelist. Presentation entitled, “F*cking the Old Spice Guy: Race, Gender and Micro-celebrity on Twitter.”

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green Ohio.

  • Invited speaker for conference entitled “Race, Labor and Affect on the Internet,” organized by Radhika Gajjala. Talk title: “White Trash Bitches, Magical Negroes and Unhappy Migrants: A Story of Race, Affect and Labor on the Internet.”Transcript of talk is here. Slides are here.

2010

TED Salon Event. London, U.K. November 2010.

Association of Internet Researchers, Sweden, October 2010.

  • Organized panel entitled “Brand Me Online: Sustaining Personal Identity through Strategies of the Corporate.” Participants include Andrew Herman, danah boyd, Alice Marwick and Ilana Gershon. Proposal is here.

2009

Berkman Center, Harvard University Law School, Autumn 2009.

  • Invited speaker for Youth and Media Policy Working Group initiative. Topic: “What can we learn from youth engagement with celebrity?” Essay that came out of that project is here.

Oxford Internet Institute, Winter 2009.

  • OII Forum on Relationships and the Internet. Subject of talk:“From intimate strangers to strange intimacies: theorizing encounters with the other online.” Proposal available here.

University of Copenhagen.Autumn 2009.I

  • Invited speaker for conference on ‘Mediatization of Intimate Experiences.’ Subject of talk: “New Media Romance in the time of Snuff: Thinking through the Media Martyrdom of Neda.” Essay that came out of that project is here.

Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver, CA, Autumn 2009.

  • Participant in roundtable presentation entitled, “Being Difficult? Imagining the Futures of Internet Studies.

2007

Telic Gallery,Los Angeles, Fall 2007.

  • Invited speaker for “Showing,” an exhibition curated by Jordan Crandall. Speech topic: “Tele-ethicality in the age of social networks.”

University of Ottawa Law School, Ottawa, CA,Fall 2007.

  • Invited panel speaker. Talk title: “YouTube Booty Dancing: A Meditation.”

2006

Jewish Funders Network. Boulder, Colorado,Spring 2006.

2005

SITE Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Fall 2005.

  • Invited speaker in conjunction with digital artist Kiki Soror.

Franklin University, Lugano, Switzerland, Spring 2005.

  • Caribbean Unbound Conference, Presentation title: “ Braiding as Identity Performance on St. Thomas.”Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW),Chicago, 2006.
  • Participant, Pre-Conference Workshop. Organized by
    Michele Chang, Elizabeth Goodman and danah boyd. Topic:Identity and Community

New York University Departments of Cinema Studies and Performance Studies, NYU, Winter 2003.

  • Invited speaker, Liveness Conference. Paper title: “World Wide Webcams, Live.”

2002

National Communication Association,New Orleans, LA, Fall 2002.

  • Poster panel on “Mardi Gras and Communication.” Paper title: Throw me something, Mister: Webcammed sexual display and theories of carnival.”

Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels Belgium, Spring 2000.

  • Invited speaker for Junctions-Ver., multi-media conference sponsored by Constant VZW. Speech topic: “Women Webcammers.”

1998

Modern Language Association, San Francisco, Winter 1998.

  • Paper title: “Four Rooms.”
    Essay that came out of that talk is here.

Duke University Dept. of English, Fall 1998.

  • Keynote speaker for conference entitled, “Discipline and Deviance: Technology and Gender for the Future.” Speech: “Orlan and the Trouble with Cyborgs.”
    Essay that came out of that talk is here.

Freedom Forum, New York, NY., Fall 1998.

  • Invited speaker. Topic: “Cyber-rights in the Digital Age.”

Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, Fall 1998.

  • Invited speaker, “World Wide Web: Metaphor, Myth, Magic” conference. Paper topic: “Baud Girls and Cargo Cults: Waiting for the New Media Money Gods.”
    Essay that came out of that conference is here.

1997

Rutgers University, Spring 1997.

  • New Brunswick, N.J. Invited speaker for Women and the Arts conference. Paper topic: “Women Artists in New Media.”

ThunderGulch of New York with Gallery 21 (St. Petersburg, Russia),

  • World Financial Center, New York, NY,Joint U.S./Russian Mythologies of Territory Conference. Speech topic: “Cyberfeminism in an International Frame.”