Hyperrhiz 21

Table of Contents

Introduction

• Editors’ Introduction
  Anne Cong-Huyen, Kim Brillante Knight and Mark C. Marino

Teaching

• Imagined Communities and Digital Nation Building on Instagram
  Emily McGinn and Ben Jahre
• Teaching Critical Memes
  Leonardo Flores
• Know Thy Selfie
  Mark C. Marino and Adeline Koh
• Sharing What You Know: Creating Infographics
  Andrew Carlos

GIF Essays

• Annotated Series of GIFs
  Veronica Paredes
• Ideological State Apparatuses in “Fifteen Million Merits” (2011)
  Kate Kennelly
• 7 Things You Should Know About Miquela @lilmiquela
  Zizi Li
• This Year, I’m Learning to Love My Robot Overlords, and Maybe You Should Too
  Aubrey Bauer

Bots and Toys

• Quiz: Which FemTechNet Feminist Scholar Are You?
  Elizabeth Losh
• Go Rando
  Ben Grosser
• Octavia Botler
  Olivia Banner

Listicles, Explainers and Thinkpieces

• 31 Truths of Teaching Cultural Semiotics in a General Education Class
  Sarah Whitcomb Laiola
• Identifying Cult Stardom: A Check-list For The Digital Era
  Jennifer O’Meara
• “What Ever Happened To Academic Batgirl?”
  Dr. Academic Batgirl
• The Top 5 Things I Learned About Celebrity Culture from “Celebrity Mean Tweets”
  Amber M. Buck
• Grad School Lit Review
  Liz Owens Boltz and Diana Brandon
• A Thousand Pikachus: Capitalism and Transmedia
  Davin Heckman
• 6 Critical Concepts We Can Learn from Star Wars
  Leonardo Flores
• Being Mii
  Anastasia Salter

Games

• Choice: Texas
  Carly A. Kocurek and Allyson Whipple
• A Tale of Computing and Gatekeeping
  D. Fox Harrell
• Ribbon Cutting: A Game for Breast Cancer Awareness
  Jennifer Roth Miller and Stephanie Vie
• The Making of Chasing the Manic Pixie Dream Girl: A Game about Love, Consent, and Respect
  Megan Condis
• Blocked In
  Anastasia Salter and John Murray

Miscellany

• Snapchat Research Stories
  Jill Walker Rettberg
• FemTechNet Allied Media Conference Newsletter, or Feminist Killjoy Antics with GIFs
  Situated Critical Race & Media Collective (SCRAM)
• Dress Profesh: Deconstructing Power through the Clothing
  Katie Manthey
• Dr. T Memmott Digital Culture Lecture Tour
  Talan Memmott
• Stitch n’ Glitch: Teetering on the “/”
  Hong-An (Ann) Wu, Wendy Sung, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez and Kim Brillante Knight
• Glitch-Writing, or, How to Break Twitter
  Matt Applegate
• The History & Origin of Cat Memes: From the 18th Century to lolcats; Or, How Cats have Basically Changed the Internet and the World Furever
  Claire Sewell and Spencer D. C. Keralis