List of the Blog Buddies (aka blog partners)

	Blog URL	Blog Title	Screenname	Topic (Specific & General Categories)
1	http://alexalgarin.blogspot.com/	Gender Representation in Advertisments	Memoirs of Mi Mente	Advertising	Ads
	http://genpopculture.blogspot.com/	Michelle's Pop Culture Analysis	Michelle	Advertising	Ads
2	http://ihatethecword.blogspot.com/	Celebrities..... why are they so damn special!?	Tony Mojo	Celebrities	Celebs
	http://femalestardom.blogspot.com/	Female "Stardom" Presented by the Media	Katelyn	Hollywood Female Ideology	Celebs
3	http://bittersweetsym-phonies.blogspot.com/	Emerging Music (?) of the 21st Century	Amanda	Emo Music	Music
	http://agpopculture.blogspot.com/	"Idol"-ology: Gender and Reality Television	Amanda Ganza	American Idol	TV
	http://britneylikewoah.blogspot.com/	Britney Like Woah!	PRlNCESSJESSS's	Britney Spears	Music
4	http://noochnetnook.blogspot.com/	Nooch's Net Nook	Miss Nooch	Da Ali G Show	TV
	http://spencersfavoriteclass.blogspot.com/	Spencer's Blog	Spencer	The Office	TV
5	http://wgsgenderpopculture.blogspot.com/	Beauty and the Geek	Devon	Beauty and the Geek	TV
	http://eduff.blogspot.com/	Model Behavior	Erin	America's Next Top Model	TV
6	http://realpopculture.blogspot.com/	A Blurred Reality	Jen Mur	The Girls Next Door	TV
	http://genderpop.blogspot.com/	Gender and Race through Flavor of Love and Celebreality	Melissa	Flavor of Love	TV
7	http://dgolazeski.blogspot.com	Gender, Race, and Class in Scrubs	dgolazeski	Scrubs	TV
	http://nicolespopcultureblog.blogspot.com	Nicole's Grey's Anatomy Blog	Nicole	Grey's Anatomy	TV
8	http://kje-pop.blogspot.com/	Get Your Blog On	Kristian	Professional Sports (or not a topic)	Sports
	http://grindzmygearz.blogspot.com/	You know what really grinds my gears	Kyle	South Park (or not a topic)	TV
9	http://wgspopculture.blogspot.com/	What are we really laughing about?	Jess B	Family Guy	TV
	http://digioac2.blogspot.com/	Pat's Blog	Digioac2	Family Guy	TV
10	http://tarasthoughts-tara.blogspot.com/	Thoughts from Tara: South Park	Tara	South Park	TV
	http://astoldbyleo.blogspot.com/	More Than Just Cartoons	Mr. Leo Mahaga	Gender and Anime	TV
11	http://popcultureblogg.blogspot.com/	Pop Culture Blogging	jcb	24 Disney Girls Next Door (not clear what the topic is)	TV
	http://markpopculture.blogspot.com/	"These pretzels are making me thirsty"...	Mark	Seinfeld	TV
12	http://darlinggender.blogspot.com/	The Typical Woman in America: how women are portrayed in music, magazines, and reality t.v	Darling C.	Women in multiple forms of media	Media
	http://melisthoughtswgs.blogspot.com/	The Oprah Phenomenon	Meli	Oprah	TV
13	http://genderdesperatehousewives.blogspot.com/	Gender & Desperate Housewives	Kristin	Desperate Housewives	TV
	http://lizsiegel.blogspot.com/	Desperate for Desperate Housewives	Lizzaydizay	Desperate Housewives	TV

The semester is quickly coming to an end!

The agenda for the remainder of the big blog experiment is on the class notes page.
The website home for the class has also been updated recently & I've divided the class into partners (or "blog buddies" as they've been coined) to give content related feedback on their blogs. The list of blog buddies has been emailed to the class, but will also be posted here too (shortly!).

Agenda for the rest of the semester:
Monday, April 9	Ch 39, “The Pornography Debates: Beyond Cause and Effect,” 406-416
Blog Buddies will be assigned via email w/ time for work w/ Blog buddy during Thursday's Class
Thursday, April 12	Read through your blog buddy's blog before class today
	Zia, “Where Race and Gender Meet: Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography,” 496-498
Friday, April 13	No Blog post this week- just work with your blog-partner to give feedback and apply feedback from partner
Monday, April 16	Lee, “The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism,” 248-251
Thursday, April 19	Haraway, Ch 7, "Facts, Witnesses, & Consequences," 267-271
Friday, April 20	Blog Buddy Work
Monday, April 23	Workshop in Class Important! Preparing for the final presentations & final Blog post.
Thursday, April 26	Final Presentation of Blog Project – Individual Presentations (4-26 & 4-30) Alphabetically: Alex A- Dan G
Friday, April 27	Final Blog Post: Wrapping up the analysis (further details will be posted to SOCS & the main Blog)
Monday, April 30	Final Presentation of Blog Project – Individual Presentations (4-26 & 4-30) Alphabetically: Spencer H- Melissa Z

Blog Post #5 for Friday 4/6/07 Updated

Friday (4/6/07) Blog Post #5 Now with more options to choose from!

- How has your blog-topic made news? When it has been the subject of the news, how has it been depicted? Specifically, when your topic is the subject of the news/media, how do you see the news/media depict gender, race, class, etc in your topic in relation to the reason that it made the news? In other words, does race, class, gender, etc factor into the reason that the topic became "newsworthy?"

Use at least one class reading and read/watch at least one source of news/media that relates to your topic (when it made news) to analyze this portrayal of your topic by the news/media. Find an example of "mainstream" news for this assignment. Make sure you link to the news/media source if it can be found online or cite it w/ your citation of the course reading you used at the end of the blog post.

Another issue that at least one person brought up on the index cards* was the topics for the blog posts. I want to keep the topics linked to the course readings and class discussions; however, I also want you to pursue areas that are of interest to you (which, hopefully your topic is one already) and blog on those areas of interest as well.

Therefore, for blog post #5, in addition to the original topic of mainstream news issues/coverage of your topic, as currently listed on the SOCS welcome page, you can instead opt to pursue one of the following areas to analyze in relation to your topic:

-Motherhood (great for the topics on female celebrities- mother or not- and for topics on gender and advertising, as well as many of the TV shows chosen as topics for the blogs)
-Infamous Celebrity (as opposed to fame/famous- what constructs notoriety in pop culture?)
-The roles of violence as a technique of social control (we've covered so many- from "Hidden Politics,"
"Homophobia in Straight Men," "Wielding Masculinity Inside Abu Garib," to earlier pieces such as
"King Kong & the White Woman," "Lay theories of Media Effects," and also "The More You Subtract, The More
"You Add")
-Heterosexism (the notion that 2 sexes = 2 genders = marriage between 2 people of opposite sex/gender =
procreation)

Each of the topics above relates directly to recent readings and can (but doesn't have to) replace the topic of your blog-topic in the news.

The requirements remain the same (keep it under 5-6 paragraphs w/ one course reading cited, etc) as the original assignment.

Hope this gives everyone a bit more freedom to scrutinize popular culture :o)
-Jessie

*Yesterday in class, I handed everyone a blank index card and asked the class to alert me to ideas/issues to help me know what will benefit them the most from this class--on top of an adversion to the more technical side of the blog experiment, which I can totally understand, this issue appeared on a couple index cards...just to clarify the index cards for those who were absent yesterday or not in this course at all!

Blog News: We're popping up all over the web

Blog News

Hi Class!
You have quite a following with your collages (I haven't had time to publish links to all of the sites that are displaying them b/c there are more!) and these are just the first ones that you did in class!

They LOVE you...they really LOVE you!!!

(okay...yeah...bad sense of humor...I get it!)
Here's one place I found your collages (so random that I could find your work at any time and anywhere...or have a "hey, there's more of my students' work!" type of moment)

Photos: "Blogging in College: Self Portraits in Consumer Capitalism

This week in class...

♦ Before Monday (4/2/07): Click on the technorati link that you added to your blog to check to see if the page that appears on technorati lists your blog (see "IF IT DOESN'T SHOW YOUR BLOG ON TECHNORATI" below the week's agenda for more instructions).

♦ Monday (4/2/07): The first reading is one we didn't have time to get to last week (but was on the syllabus for last week's classes)

Ch 38, "Hidden Politics: Discursive and Institutional Policing of Rap Music," 396-405 (GRCM)

Ch 14, "Who(se) Am I? The Identity and Image of Women in Hip-Hop," 136-148 (GRCM)

Ragonese, "Riot Grrrrls Castrate 'Cock Rock' in New York," 27-31

♦ Before Thursday (4/5/07):Deadline for applying teamwork to blog is BY THE BEGINNING OF CLASS (10 am) on this date! The readings for this class are included below the teamwork instructions/guidelines.

Choose one item from one team (just one element of one team's work needs to be completed for this assignment, which we discussed on Thursday, during class).

If you need help, contact the appropriate team's liaison for assistance.

Each team's work is on each team's blog (the links for the aforementioned blogs can be found on the big blog, on your team's blog, and on my "professor-blog")

Even if you don't need the liaison's assistance it's your responsibility to email the liaison from the group whose work you used for your own blog. The liaison will need to bring this list to class today (so be kind to her/him and email the liaison in advance of class-not at 1 am the night before class--or right before class--so get this work finished asap so you can email the team's liaison and everything will be fine for Thursday on your end and the liaison's).

Only 2 don'ts:

Don't use your own team's work

Don't state you used work from a team that you used for a previous blog assignment (i.e. research team & blog posts or collages, creative team and collages for post 3, etc).

This work must be evident on your blog as distinct from each of your other assignments--it doesn't need to be it's own post (but it can be--if you wanted to create an audio or video element, etc) b/c if you used Digg from the buzz team (for example) you wouldn't need to post something to your blog to do the "Digg" digging. You'd contact the liaison if you need help with digging (in this example), but if not, you'd digg the classes' work and related articles as the Buzz team showed you how to do on the day of presentations, and then you'd contact the liaison to let her/him know you used his/her team's work for this assignment.

♦Thursday (4/5/07):

Coates, “Moms Don’t Rock: The Popular Demonization of Courtney Love,” 319-333 (SOCS)
Satrapi, "Kim Wilde," 126-134 (SOCS)

IF IT DOESN'T SHOW YOUR BLOG ON TECHNORATI (when you click the technorati link that's on your blog):

(it may show Amanda's blog when you click the link due to the id in the code that was originally emailed to you-- when you inserted your URL where you were supposed to, it was still linked to her account based on this id)

1. You will need to click "claim blog" link on the left side of the screen (do it when you realize, "hey, this blog isn't mine!)

2. Go through the setup instructions to create a technorati account...sorry...but it's necessary!

3. Once the account is created, click on the "blogs" link (or tab) and enter your blog's URL address in the applicable field.

4. Select the embedded claim (one on the right side of the screen) After that's selected, you will be given some code- click on the code and make sure it's selected/highlighted (control and a = select all). Then copy (control and c).

5. Go back to your blog (it may help if you do this in two tabs or two windows) and click on the little icon next to the technorati button *that looks like some tools- hammer/wrench combo) you'll see the technorati code you pasted earlier in the semester. You can also do this in the "layouts" by clicking edit on the appropriate page section).

6. Delete all of the original technorati code (be careful that you don't delete the stat counter code if you placed it in the same "page element" as the technorati code).

7. Paste (control v) the new code in the page element and then click the "save changes" button (at the bottom of the editing window).

8. Go back to technorati and click "release the spiders" and it will check your blog for the unique id that you just added in the code automatically...then it will take you to the final screen...yay!

9. Make sure that you select the check boxes for "search this blog" and "blogs that link here." Whether you want to select the photo and profile check boxes are up to you. Then select all of the code (control a) below the check boxes. Copy this code (control c).

10. Go back to your blog (or the layouts page for your blog). Click the "edit" link where the page element for technorati is located (or the little icon w/ tools shown if you're viewing your blog's page normally and are logged in). Paste the code (control v) and save the changes. Finally, go to your blog's page (if you were on page elements from the layout link on the "dashboard" if you select the little tool button, then you'll be on the blog when you've saved your changes). Hold the shift key while you click the refresh button in your internet browser (this forces the page to really be reloaded - just pressing refresh rarely shows the updated page- especially if you use internet explorer--the blue "e" browser). If you see your new technorati button and the settings you chose, then you did it!

♦ After Thursday's class, the self-evaluations and the team member evaluation will be on SOCS for the liaison- this eval will be online from Thursday at 10 am until Sunday at Midnight.

♦I'm still contemplating the second round of group-work as well as the subject for this Friday's scheduled blog post...

Are you alright Spencer? It's 1:19, do you know where you're blogging?
If this is some kind of coded message and you're being held captive somewhere-- I guess I won't see you in class on Monday!?!?
Just kidding :o)

The 4th Blog Post (Collage) due on Friday 3/30/07

For the blog collage assignment; use images to analyze your topic. Your collage should have a "thesis" (i.e. it makes a statement/argument about your topic using images instead of written language) that makes a claim about your topic, which is grounded by an author's claim from any of the course readings so far this semester.

Therefore, the image collage will need to be titled appropriately for the argument it makes, include the source used for the basis of the "statement" your collage makes, include gender as a primary method for analysis, and should be followed by a 1 paragraph explanation of the collage's representation of your topic (include direct quotes from the source that you used to base your collage's "thesis" on in this paragraph).

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The 3rd Blog Post due by Friday 3/30/07

To recap the 3rd blog post assignment (that can be turned in by this Friday), find examples from your topic to analyze the ways that your topic is a part of popular culture and disseminates both counter-hegemonic and hegemonic messages.

Look at the conflicts in these messages and use the readings from the course to get you thinking about what to look for in your own topic, and also to support your claim(s) about the(se) message(s).

Please keep this post clear and concise (and make sure you hit "enter" two times to mark the beginning of a new paragraph b/c tabs don't always show up on the blog and a single "enter" makes the paragraph differentiation tough to decipher). 3 or 4 paragraphs are ideal for this assignment and make sure you cite sources appropriately (both from course readings and from your examples for your topic).

Dugg, on Digg after a Mobile Blog Post Image of the Buzz Team Presenting on Digg.com in class

The buzz team is digging on digg in class!

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As they presented on photo blogging, I photo blogged the creative team...

The creative team presenting on mobile blogging

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Blogs tagged as Celebrities - Blog Top Sites

Blogs tagged as Celebrities - Blog Top Sites: "43 Report Site

Blogging in College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Experiment
27 students, blogging on a topic within the broad category of pop culture. Blogs are central to the (on-campus) course, where s/he will examine his/her topic of choice through the lens of gender. Feel free to visit the blogs & leave comments!

Other Tags: college, blog, tv, music
Unique Visitors this Reset 59
Pageviews this Reset 163
Total Unique Visitors 115
Total Pageviews 215
Total Out 4
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Blogs tagged as College - Blog Top Sites

Blogs tagged as College - Blog Top Sites: "14 Report Site

Blogging in College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Experiment
27 students, blogging on a topic within the broad category of pop culture. Blogs are central to the (on-campus) course, where s/he will examine his/her topic of choice through the lens of gender. Feel free to visit the blogs & leave comments!

Other Tags: blog, celebrities, tv, music
Unique Visitors this Reset 59
Pageviews this Reset 163
Total Unique Visitors 115
Total Pageviews 215
Total Out 4
View Details for Blogging in College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Experiment"

Blogs tagged as Tv - Blog Top Sites

Blogs tagged as Tv - Blog Top Sites: "Report Site

Blogging in College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Experiment
27 students, blogging on a topic within the broad category of pop culture. Blogs are central to the (on-campus) course, where s/he will examine his/her topic of choice through the lens of gender. Feel free to visit the blogs & leave comments!

Other Tags: college, blog, celebrities, music
Unique Visitors this Reset 59
Pageviews this Reset 163
Total Unique Visitors 115
Total Pageviews 215
Total Out 4
View Details for Blogging in College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Experiment"

Tara's efforts landed us in Jess T's arena as news?! Britney Spears biograhy || Britney Spears pictures

Britney Spears biograhy || Britney Spears pictures: "Britney Spears gets personal

'I look forward to coming back this year bigger and better than ever, and to also reaching out to my fans on a more personal level.'Tara

http://tarasthoughts-tara.blogspot.com/ http://genderpopculture.blogspot.com/"

Class Notes & Course Terms

All of the terms that I have received and the notes that have been submitted are now on the Class Notes Page- Just click the link!

Class Notes- Blogging In College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Experiment

Gender & Pop Culture's ...Midterm Blog-tagular!

SOCS @ TCNJ: "Here's the plan for the week of March 19th

It's the Midterm Blogtacular!
You (if you are in my class, of course) must be in class this week and adhere to the deadlines listed below:

Each Team now has a blog (See your Team's SOCS sub-section for how to use it, where it is, and how to post to it).

Monday, March 19

Deadline for completion of team work (based on plan due 2/26)

Keep updated work on your Team's Blog.

It should be ready to present for Thursday by this Monday's deadline

Thursday, March 22

Mid-Semester “State of the Blog Report”

Team Reports & Individual Questions/Requests

Self Grade & Group Grade both due using SOCS Assessments

For Class Team Presentation :
-Each Team's Speaker will present the completed work of the group (using Monday's finished work to help her/him prepare). Teammates are welcome to jump in to the presentation to cover specific aspects of the work (this delegation of speaking tasks is optional and up to the individual teams to decide how the group proceeds); however, the speaker will introduce the team and the team's work.

Friday, March 23

Blog Post #3
Topic Analysis (examining power and your topic):
(more details to follow)

Students in the class should check in at SOCS for the readings and more details for this week's assignments (this post is not at all comprehensive for the work you'll need to do this week).

Blue Book: Student-Blogs published for Blogging in College Experiment

Blogging in College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Experiment: "Blue Book: Student-Blogs published for Blogging in College Experiment

Hey Class- We're being blogged about (and clipmarked too!) Amanda's blog seems to have generated Paul's (the author of the blue book blog) interest in our experiment! Check out his blog by clicking the title!

In case you have trouble uploading the collage

If you need a photo editor (that's easy to use) for uploading your collages to your blogs (a student emailed me and asked about what to do b/c the collage isn't in a format (currently they're scanned and saved as TIF files, which I'm surprised Blogger isn't able to handle) that's compatable with the blog's image upload process, feel free to download from the link below. After installing, open "Picassa" or "Picassa 2" (they call it one or the other), then open the file for the photo based on where you originally saved it (from the upload instructions email). Once you've opened it, go to file, save as (or "save a copy"), and the file window will open. Save it as a yourimage'sname.jpg and make sure that the line below the file also lists .jpg or .jpeg (and not the .tif information still) or "all files, *.*" to avoid saving it as the same file type. If it asks you to export or "flatten" your image, okay it until you're done and have a file called yourimage'sname.jpg (picassa may not show the filename in the window of the main screen, if that's the case, you can go open the folder from the "my documents" or "My Computer" in Windows, look for the file where you saved it, and make sure it was saved as a .jpg file. Then you can upload away!
Download Here!

Email- Check your spam filter and make sure you accept invite

Hi Everyone-
Amanda has sent a requst that needs your attention and I realized that the invites sent for granting student-access to the big blog might have been intercepted by your spam filters!
Please check your spam filters for the invite and make sure you accept the request to become a blog author at http://genderpopculture.blogspot.com.
The next blog assignment has been sent via email too...
For Amanda's request, see the email w/ the .doc download and follow her great instructions for adding the needed elements to your blog (they're really clear and well done!) asap!
Thanks!

"Idol"-ology: Gender and Reality Television: American Idol Season 6 - Ian Benardo

Amanda got a response from Ian (on American Idol) using MySpace!

American Popular Culture

American Popular Culture

Popular Culture -- GENDER ISSUES info from a university's site

Popular Culture -- GENDER ISSUES

(Kind of) Befriending our first blog topic on MySpace...The Girls Next Door

As an addendum....to this week's scholarly topic...eh hem...
I figured I'd post my little adventures in the world of MySpace finding Kendra, Briget, and Holly (much to the confusion of my actual friends... "What is Jessie doing on MySpace befriending the playboy girlfriend trio?" Nope, I haven't (completely) lost it yet...
Here's Bridget
www.myspace.com/bunnybridget
Kendra
www.myspace.com/kendrawilkinson
& Holly (the ewok?)
www.myspace.com/hollyewok

Martha Stewart's HELL!

A NY Times Recipe:
1 Column) Restaurant Review,
1 Establishment) The Penhouse Club
(and yes, appropriately named)
2 sets of nude phots of women) Multimedia Slideshows
1) Dude who has NY Times authority to claim the steaks are the reason for his trip...mix together and (emeril-style...BAM!):
and I give you... This really relevant to class...and sadly illustrative of life....Restaurant Review of Robert's Steakhouse!

The New York Times > Robert's Steak House Restaurant Review > New York City Restaurant Reviews

If Ever there was a topic more relevant to your blogs in college...Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias

GREENCASTLE, Ind. — When a psychology professor at DePauw University here surveyed students, they described one sorority as a group of “daddy’s little princesses” and another as “offbeat hippies.” The sisters of Delta Zeta were seen as “socially awkward.”
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Women at DePauw University in Indiana who were either asked to leave the Delta Zeta house or resigned in protest hold a sorority photo.
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Andrew Hancock for The New York Times

Elizabeth Haneline, who was among those evicted, said, “The Greek system hasn’t changed at all, but instead of racism, it’s image now.”

Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.

The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit.

“Virtually everyone who didn’t fit a certain sorority member archetype was told to leave,” said Kate Holloway, a senior who withdrew from the chapter during its reorganization.
Go to...the NY Times article for more:
Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias - New York Times

BlogSheroes | the feminist bloggers network

BlogSheroes | the feminist bloggers network

Research Team!NCAC - National Coalition Against Censorship

Good site w/ plenty of links to issues and places that are great analytical sites, as well as great issues/sites to analyze :o)

NCAC - National Coalition Against Censorship

Research & PR - feminist blogs » Reality TV: Survivor

Thanks Jen! I found this one on your blog :o)
go to http://feministblogs.org for more topics (this one links specifical to reality tv shows, with "Survivor" as the subtopic).
feminist blogs » Reality TV: Survivor

PR Team! PopMatters Blogs

Here's a list of blogs listed on the Pop Matters blog (they link to other blogs here), see if you can get them to link to our blogs (or the "blogging in college" one)!

PopMatters Blogs

Research Group: A blog on pop culture! (and it's a cultural criticism of pop culture): PopMatters

PopMatters
Not a fan-site! Check it out :o)

Photo Blogging on 29 in NJ- a bit of a delay

See...I said I 'd blog the pic of my ridiculous commute! It just took about 10 hours to actually get from my phone to the blog....hmmm...delayed photo blogging kind of defeats the whole "mobile blogging" on the go rationale :o)

The Power to Name -- For Etheridge, Oscar Nod Is a Dream

For Etheridge, Oscar Nod Is a Dream: "Melissa Etheridge knows all about labels. First there was the 'rock goddess' with the classic hit, 'Come to My Window.' Then there was 'lesbian singer.' Then came 'cancer survivor.' Now there's 'Oscar nominee.'

Etheridge, 45, competes in the best-song category for the anthem 'I Need to Wake Up' from the global-warming documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth.'"

iWon News - Many Playboy Playmates Have Died Young

Linking the Inventing the Cosmo Girl Reading, watching the Girls Next Door in class last week, and the blog post about Smith from (last week? I think)...an article...that ties them all up...Miami AP, Bring us home!
iWon News - Many Playboy Playmates Have Died Young

iWon News - Laughs End With Bizarre Britney in Rehab

iWon News - Laughs End With Bizarre Britney in Rehab: "The 25-year-old pop star has been seen wearing skimpy outfits and partying heavily since filing for divorce from Kevin Federline in November, after two years of marriage.

On Friday night, Spears, the mother of two young sons, shaved her head bald. But that didn't send her into hiding as she was later seen wearing an inexpensive blond wig.

'You know, for these celebrities, it's really tough,' New York-based psychiatrist Gail Saltz told The Associated Press. 'They have no idea if anybody likes them for them. ... Everybody wants a piece. Everybody wants to make something off of her, get somewhere by her.'

Spears' very public divorce isn't helping matters, said Saltz, who also suggested that Spears could be suffering from postpartum depression."

The Lesson: Hollywood Stars Attend Obama Fundraiser

Celebrealitics (still working on this one...celebs and politics...?)
Yet another of pop culture's many incarnations...stars from a variety of industries, and the political
(or...when the right-wing haters of the liberal Hollywood-ers get upset for celeb activism...but then the right-wingers are the ones who get the stars to run (and win!...go figure!) for actual public office (whether these officials ever do much...in terms of change...is debatable...just watch last week's Daily Show coverage of CSPAN....yeah...not much there!). Bash Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins (hell...burn Jane Fonda at the stake if you listen to most of Fox's "news-ish" teleprompter readers) and then elect Reagan and Mr. Terminator...yeah...okay?
Pop culture is politics and politics is pop culture...
That's today's lesson!
Hollywood Stars Attend Obama Fundraiser
(and that's the link to the source of today's lesson above)

USA TODAY has a blog on Pop Culture! Pop Candy - USATODAY.com

PR Group:
Get Whitney Matheson to cover our project!!! :o) That would be fun...mainstream press :o) Whether we can woo Whitney or not, we can still use this site as a resource!
Pop Candy - USATODAY.com

Why Do People Even Bother??? Is Spongebob Gay? | Blogger Party

Is Spongebob Gay? | Blogger Party

Found a goldmine for pop culture :o)

Here's their "tag cloud" (don't know what a tag cloud is? Better google it!):
ads Aircraft Airlines Airports Amsterdam Architecture Art Awards Bali Bangkok Barcelona Bars Bathroom Beach Beauty Bedroom Beijing Berlin Bike Books Business Business profiles Cafe Cape Town Cardboard Caribbean Chile China Clubs Copenhagen Design Dubai Eco Events Fahion Fashion Fitness Florence Food Furniture Germany Greece Hong Kong Hotels House ice cream Installation Japan Kids Kitchen Las Vegas Laundry Lifestyle Lighting Links London Los Angeles Magazines Maldives Melbourne Mexico Milan Munich Music Netherlands New York News Office Outdoor Packaging Paris Parties Pets Phuket Restaurants Rimini Rome rss Singapopre Ski Sneakers Spa Space Sports Stores Street Switzerland Sydney Theatre Themed hotels Toronto Toys Train Transportation TV Shows Underwater Wallpaper
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Wired.com's Top Tools for Writers

Hi Class!Here's a link I found for you all on writing (it's from wired.com) for your blogs :o)-Jessie



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Buzz Group- How to create links to social bookmark services

How to create links to social bookmark services: "How to create links to social bookmark services
Filed under: SEO — arne on July 19, 2006

Social bookmark services are a good way to promote your website or blog. You can increase the number of bookmarks to your site with providing your visitors links which allow them to directly bookmark your site on their favourite bookmark service.

Below you can find a list of the most used ones, simply replace '[URL]' with the URL to your site or specific page and '[TITLE]' with the title of it. Some services have additional parameters, but they are pretty self-explanatory.

Note that you always need to urlencode your URL and title!

Del.icio.us:
http://del.icio.us/post?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]Many people ask how to predefine the tags for del.icio.us, but that’s not possible.

Furl:
http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=[URL]&t=[TITLE]

Digg:
http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]Maybe you should implement a referer check for digg users so they can instantly digg it instead of submitting your page again.

Google Bookmarks:
http://google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

YAHOO MyWeb:
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=[URL]&=[TITLE]

BlinkList:
http:"

Gender Predictor - Find Out Baby's Gender Instantly! Proven Baby Sex Prediction Method

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StumbleUpon a site you might want to sign up for to help you in your quest for topic-related material :o)

Easy to use...sign up and check it out :o)
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NPR : Web Site Allows Students to Rate Professors

College, meet Internet. Love + Hatred toward professors + this meeting = birth of ratemyprofessor.com.
Now...
Academia + Pop Culture + NPR (oops, almost forgot to mention...) + website, sold to MTV)=
???? You analyze it!!! See...pop culture...it's everywhere! What counts as "not popular culture"?

Listen to story first, then respond.
NPR : Web Site Allows Students to Rate Professors

So these are the ads on my "professor-blog" (linked to all 28 students)?

First...shamelessly advertise product, service, etc...Second...shamelessly advertise the treatment for harm done by those ads and media the ads were meant to generate revenue for....Third...make money on steps one and two...Fourth...repeat...See these ads and more google-confusion at http://genderpopculture.blogspot.com



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Barbie Does Colorado: Mass Forwarded Email Edition

What do you all think of this one?
Please, post comments :o)
Clipmarks - My Clippers

The Rape of Anna Nicole: Where's the Fire?

The Rape of Anna Nicole: Where's the Fire?: "The Rape of Anna Nicole
by
beckychr007
· 3 days ago · 4 votes so far · you voted for this

The reason this is an important story:--the first is simply why is there the infactuation and interest? To understand this says something about Anna Nicole--but much more about American/ Western culture.

Another thing, which has been almost ignored by the feminist bloggers--is that this is the story of the rape and degradation of Anna Nicole. She became an object of scorn in our endless jokes--because she was such a little foolish hussy. And it is so much fun to tease the trampy girls--they just keep coming back for more.

And now the rape continues as the guys force every cent and bit of self respect out of her.

But that is ok--like all victims of rape--she asked for it:http://girlinshortshorts.blogs…"

The Typical Woman in America: how women are portrayed in music, magazines, and reality t.v

The Typical Woman in America: how women are portrayed in music, magazines, and reality t.v

Thoughts from Tara

Thoughts from Tara

Spencer's Blog

Spencer's Blog

Pop Culture Blogging

Pop Culture Blogging

Pat's Blog

Pat's Blog

Nooch's Net Nook

Nooch's Net Nook

What are we really laughing about?

What are we really laughing about?

The Oprah Phenomenon

The Oprah Phenomenon

Nicole's Grey's Anatomy Blog

Nicole's Grey's Anatomy Blog

More Than Just Cartoons

More Than Just Cartoons

Devon's Blog

Devon's Blog: "Devon's Blog"

These pretzels are making me thirsty...

These pretzels are making me thirsty...: "These pretzels are making me thirsty..."

Gender and Race through Flavor of Love and Celebreality

Gender and Race through Flavor of Love and Celebreality: "Gender and Race through Flavor of Love and Celebreality"

Model Behavior

Model Behavior

Gender Representation in Advertisments

Gender Representation in Advertisments

"Idol"-ology: Gender and Reality Television

"Idol"-ology: Gender and Reality Television: "'Idol'-ology: Gender and Reality Television"

You know what really grinds my gears

You know what really grinds my gears

Female "Stardom" Presented by the Media

Female "Stardom" Presented by the Media

Emerging Music (?) of the 21st Century

Emerging Music (?) of the 21st Century

Desperate for Desperate Housewives

Desperate for Desperate Housewives

A Blurred Reality

A Blurred Reality

Careers for Women's & Gender Studies Grads: The media theory site (nice!)

Check out the Jan 19th post about the media Theory SIte!
Or go to www.theory.org.uk directly....good stuff on the site :o)
Careers for Women's & Gender Studies Grads: The media theory site (nice!)

Gender and sexuality stereotypes in the media

Check out this site for an interesting (an d ever so relevant blog topic) I just happened to find :o)

The Blind Bookworm Blog -
The Blind Bookworm Blog - Gender and sexuality stereotypes in the media

Grrrr...No SOCS, NO Email...NADA!

Hi all-
I was responding to a student's email when I hit send and realized that nothing on TCNJ's webservers are working (not socs, not the svpn, not their mail server, not even the home page!!!). So, Katelyn, since I was emailing you, I apologize and I'll talk to you in class tomorrow! That or go to dashboard then layout then click the add page elment at the very bottom of the page (not the same set of screens as the settings page)...if that doesn't suffice...lemme know in class tomorrow! Other than that, sorry for any delayed communication b/c it's getting late and I will see you in class tomorrow :o)
-Jessie

Anna Nicole Smith was an idea for a blog topic...well..still kind of could be one!

Think Progress » VIDEO COMPILATION: Anna Nicole Smith And Our National Media Embarrassment
Okay, as you are surfing the web you'll find sites (at least at first & if you're lucky) that are about your topic from a non-normative perspective. Think critical analysis...op/ed...
So...why the heck did Jessie link here?!?!?
This site has a great compilation of videos on the "breaking news" that is Anna Nicole Smith's...if you've been good students...you won't know this news yet....DEATH!!!
However, this site dismisses her as a "National Media Embarrassment," which seems to make (at least at first glance) to diminish the whole culture that propelled her into fame into the first place...no she's certainly not more important than news about Iraq (a point made by ThinkProgress), but she is no more a national media embarrassment than just about every day (in my opinion) that Bush has been in office! For your blogging purposes, think of this site as a good example of the pros and cons inherent in any hegemonic cultural production...pros the site is resisting the dominant power controlling the media; cons- gender? fame? what exactly did Anna Nicole Smith do to become newsworthy in the first place?
She was totally freaking successful! She built a brand out of the messages society sends women! Think of her as a pop-cultural version of Steve Jobs at Apple! Instead of dropping out of college and running a corporate iEmpire, she dropped out of high school, married a billionare, posed in Playboy, and had her own reality show...she's pathologized for being famous for because she got the media's attention and made money off of ---women's sexuality in and the dominant messages about what it means to be a "woman" in "America" (albeit an extreme...but perhaps that's why she's famous? hmmm...I wonder...???).
No, she didn't start any wars, nor did she populate the world with iPods; furthermore,
she certainly didn't create the dominant cultural messages that women in the US are fed from birth!

Google Co-op - Custom Search Engine

Message to students:
Look! It's a special google search for your blogs! Now you have another place to "google" yourselves...oh right, wait, I forgot! I'm sure none of you have ever "googled" yourselves :oP hehehe
Okay, so this search engine will only google search YOUR blogs! If you've changed the title and/or the URL of your blog, please email me! I can't add you to the link list with a dead or unknown URL (and the title change should be made here so it's accurate too), but for the search engine, it's really the URL that matters, so please make sure you have given me the most up-to-date info about your blogs!!!!
Google Co-op - Custom Search Engine

The Students have blogged...

Birth of Baby Blogs!
Not to sound totally condescending! Nice job to everyone with getting your blogs started!

Let the dude with the whiteboard teach you something:Podcasting 101

Podcasting 101 - At The Whiteboard - ZDNet
Video about podcasting for those of you who might be interested in doing so for your blogs....video, spoken w/o video...you may be more technologically able than you think!!! Try something new....really!