it lives! it liiiiiives!
I’m currently working on something that seem to have mutated out of a chapter. No, wait, that’s a rubbish description. In Chapter 4 I examined words derived from Mutual Information for the words...
View ArticleHow to erase identities and make everyone bad guys
A couple of months ago, I posted about the politics of representation. I found the observation that representation in the media can involve “crushing difference in favour of identities constructed by...
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Suggestive placement isn’t dead!
In the early 20th century, news reports were grouped into articles. These articles often shared a theme – for example, being about the same or related events. What I find interesting is when these news...
View Article7 February 1918
My supervisor and I shared a moment of somewhat nerdy joy today. Her current research focus is Charles Dickens and today marks the bicentury of his birth. However, this February marks 94 years since...
View ArticleCDA and me
It’s a busy time in the world of Kat! I finished my marking a couple of weeks ago (horror, despair, consumption of an inadvisable amount of chocolate hobnobs) and since then it’s been trying to beat my...
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Police infiltration, then and now
Suffragette photo by Victoria Gray, taken 24/10/2012; other photo by K Gupta taken 9/12/2010 POLICE SPIES AMONG THE MILITANTS. LETTERS FROM A DETECTIVE. The Suffragette this week says that in the...
View ArticleThe gap between experiences and (media) representation
On Sunday, the Guardian published an article reporting that “Dr Richard Curtis is under investigation following complaints over treatment of patients seeking gender reassignment”. Zoe O’Connell offers...
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