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Thesis Defended: Chheng-Hong Ho

Congratulations go to Chheng-Hong Ho, who successfully defended his thesis Negotiating Motherhood Using ICTs in Taiwan-US Transnational Households this morning, at the University at Buffalo. (I was chair and Mary Cassata the second member of the committee.) The work consists of interviews of members of families using IM and chat to communicate between the US [...]
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Getting cold in here

I recently went to see Avenue Q, which features a great number on Schadenfreude. It was a little chillier in Manhattan today, enough that we closed the windows last night. In Buffalo, they are snowed in. They closed the airport–which never happens. There are motorists stuck out on the interstate. And as much as I [...]
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Bespoke Blogging: Elmwood Strip

Congratulations go to Paul Visco, who presented his MFA project to his committee (Josephine Anstey [chair], Loss Pequeño Glazier, and me) today. The project, which I’ve written about before, is the Elmwood strip community site, which has existed in various incarnations since 2002. The initial site was started as part of a Virtual Communities class, [...]
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Buffalo Burlesque

It’s not especially difficult to find burlesque in New York, as the art is celebrating a bit of a renaissance. Clearly, I left Buffalo, a little too soon. Looks like fun; it’ll be interesting to see how it develops.
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Last stops to Buffalo

Tomorrow morning (at 4, because I am too damn cheap thrifty to spend $50 to take a cab to JFK), I am making my second to last trip out to Buffalo. I’ll be home for the weekend, and then I’m headed out next Tuesday for my last, UB-related, Buffalo trip. OK, I will probably be [...]
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Buffalo blogosphere

Well, this is a round-about path. Lorna Peterson (on faculty at UB) dropped me a note indicating that fix Buffalo had referred to me as the “dean of Buffalo blogging.” (Oh, and I do like that, by the way. I’d put it in my tag-line, if I weren’t a deserter.) All of this pointing to [...]
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Blogs and the City

A bit of a late notice, but: Jia Lin will be defending her doctoral dissertation “Blogs and the City: Weblogs as Indicators of Urban Culture in America” tomorrow, Tuesday, December 13, at 2 pm in Baldy 553 on the north campus of the University at Buffalo. I am her committee chair, and other members include [...]
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