As I've mentioned before, I currently edit an academic international-relations journal, International Studies Quarterly. Its contents are intended for a specialized, scholarly audience, but some of what we publish is likely to be of interest to the more general LGM readership. I previously blogged about...
popular culture
This week we deal with disability, gender identity, cross-ethnic relationships (OK, 'deal' might be too strong a word) and Mercedes and Santana unleash some amazing vocal mojo. Plus we find.
I don't know which version of the video below has the worse message for young adults: this one, in which pop artist Kesha promotes binge drinking and capricious, careless, drunken sex: Or this parody, in which Barely Political promotes the promotion of binge drinking and...
My colleague Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything forwarded me this interesting piece from Slate, in which ad critic Seth Stevenson tries out a Google service that allows.
Who says you can't empirically observe the effect of BSG on actual politics? Former Congressman Eric Massa to a male aide: "What I really ought to be doing is fracking you." See? See? (Only the series does not appear to have influenced "political perceptions" of...