You know how there's all of those weirdos who are always claiming that "you get woke and go broke" while at the same time complaining that it's unfair that all of media is now woke and suddenly they don't have any non-woke alternatives. This seems incongruous and like it would be pretty hard for both of these things to be true at the same time. This of course is mostly because they're not. Does that mean that all media really is "woke" well, that's not really true either. In fact, more often than not, media is just trying to sell itself to an audience. It is trying to anticipate what the audience wants and give it to them. And this seems ever more fluid and variable in today's... "reTrumped" cultural...
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Update: Just Recorded Episode One
Wayne and Mav just recorded the first episode of the podcast on Origin Stories. Not quite sure when we’re going to post it yet, but we wanted everyone to know that we are certainly working on it. Thank you to everyone who commented on the first blog and gave us ideas to address in the…
Call For Comments: Superhero Origins (and ours!)
From Mav: One of my most favorite things to do as an academic is presenting at conferences. Part of this is just because being an academic means presenting your research. That’s a big part of the job. But for me, conferences are the most fun because it means linking up with other people with similar…