Console-ing Passions

To bring you this week's installment in our Mad World series, Bitch went on-location to Console-ing Passions, an international conference on media and feminism. We figured that with big questions like, "How is technology influencing advertising effects?" and "Where are the women in media creation and distribution?" we needed to consult the experts.

Did someone say experts? We found 'em. So tune in to hear feminist scholars extraordinaires Jackie Cook, Nina Huntemann, and Carol Stabile share their ridiculously awesome amount of knowledge with me in this special episode of Bitch Popaganda.



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For the past three days, a few of us have been participating in the Console-ing Passions International Feminist Media conference at the University of Oregon. Some amazing feminist scholars are here from all over the world, sharing their thoughts on everything from post-racial readings of reality television to the ways in which new media are affecting labor politics. We're getting some great ideas to bring back to Bitch, but in the meantime, our enthusiasm can best be expressed through the medium of the LOL: