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Alexandra Juhasz

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How Do I (Not) Look? Live Feed Video and Viral Black Death

How Do I (Not) Look? Live Feed Video and Viral Black Death photo

When we have the choice to look, we are bound ethically and politically to what we witness and what we do with what we have seen.

Published in JStor Daily, 2016-07-20

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Topics: Abolition |  Anti-Racist Media |  Critical Internet Studies |  Fake News |  Feminist Media |  Highlight |  Public Writing | 

 
  • Introduction to Troubling Transgender Media: Fact, Fiction, and Compromise: A Forum
  • Does visibility equal progress? A conversation on trans activist media

Topics

  • Abolition
  • Activist Media
  • AIDS
  • Anti-Racist Media
  • Archives
  • Art criticism
  • Black Queer/Lesbian Media
  • Book & Film Reviews
  • COVID-19 & Disability Justice
  • Critical Internet Studies
  • Digital Realist Fragments & Detritus
  • Documentary
  • Editing/Montage
  • Experimental Film
  • Experimental Writing
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  • Fake News
  • Feminist Media
  • Film & Video Projects
  • Highlight
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  • Media Studies
  • Method
  • Online Productions
  • Pandemic Media
  • Pedagogy
  • Public Writing
  • Queer & Trans Media
  • Recent Work (2024-25)
  • Sex Ed
  • Video
  • Video Art
  • Women & HIV/AIDS

Recent Books

My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy

My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy

This book of 100 poems is foremost an invitation and invocation for you to participate, with others, in an experiment in knowing and working with the internet differently: Fake News Poetry Workshops.


 We Are Having this Conversation Now

We Are Having this Conversation Now

The Times of AIDS Cultural Production, with Ted Kerr, Duke University Press, 2020.


 Really Fake

Really Fake

Really Fake takes up story, poetry, and other human logics of care, intelligence, and dignity to explore sociotechnological and politico-aesthetic emergences in a world where information overload has become a new ontology of not-knowing.


 

Recent Curatorial Projects

VHS Activism Archive @ Internet Archive photo

VHS Activism Archive @ Internet Archive


 Holding Patterns photo

Holding Patterns


 Pandemic Media photo

Pandemic Media

What we watch, share, want, disregard, erase, don’t watch, and imagine in times of bodily assault.


 The Watermelon Woman photo

The Watermelon Woman


 VHS Activism Archive photo

VHS Activism Archive

VHS Archives considers how to store, transfer, share, research, and reactivate media collections facing obsolescence. It is a database of one VHS collection with information, citation, and in some case digitization that can lead to more.


 Long Hauling photo

Long Hauling

A series of essays highlighting the stories of “long COVID” survivors and community efforts to use the lessons learned from other viruses to provide care for patients during the early months of the outbreak.


 

Visit Alex Online

#100hardtruths-#fakenews:
A primer on digital media literacy

Fake News Poetry Workshops:
Radical digital media literacy

FemTechNet:
A network of hundreds of international scholars and artists.

Feminist Online Spaces:
Building & Linking Principled Sites in Collaboration

Ev-ent-anglement.com:
an experiment in digital embodied collective feminist media praxis

PerpiTube:
Repurposing Social Media Spaces:
www.youtube.com/PerpiTubeSpace

WordPress Blog:
aljean.wordpress.com

YouTube Class: youtube.com/mediapraxisme

Media Praxis Online Publication: www.mediapraxis.org

Alex Juhasz on Vimeo

VHS Archive: A Brooklyn College graduate course and GC Center for Humanities Working Group exploring what to do with our soon-to-be-obsolete but always-beloved collections.

Women of Vision:
Research Meeting on Feminist Film and Video History, NYC 1994

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz

Film Department, Brooklyn College
201 West End Building, 2900 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11210

Alexandra.Juhasz@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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Random Talk

ASA: Doing Feminism

University of Oregon: Screening and Faculty Seminar

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