On My Updated Website

[starfirerapture]

I managed to get my website up and running before I left for the conference. It's centered mostly around my academic stuff now, but if you're interested to read any of the research I've been talking about or anything like that, it's up and you can download .pdf files of it all.

The site: www.starfirerapture.com

Comments

[pathwriter]

Just a thought, but if you're planning to use this as your professional/academic site, you may consider a new domain name like, well, chrisvanderstouwe.com.

[starfirerapture]

I thought about that, but I still have this one for like three more years. When I'm actually in a PhD program, most schools give the grad students a page on the department website to link to, and I can just start using that once I have it as a resource.

[pathwriter]

Fair enough.

Also, this was my first time seeing it. You have an unusual name, congratulations.

[rminct]

I'm glad you posted your paper for the Lavender Language Conference. It's a fascinating analysis and it helped me understand something I've been puzzling over. I felt, like many of us, that the PR campaign against Prop 8 was badly handled and in particular that the absence of gay couples in the ads was a mistake. The professionals handling the PR however claimed that their polls showed that including images of gay couples would get a negative response from viewers. If the viewers, or the people being polled, already had opinions shaped by the media biases you presented then the poll results are perhaps understandable. The resulting action however, to not include images of gay couples, is not the right response. We need to combat the media bias by getting our language, our images, into the media. Further, by doing this with our ads we maintain editorial control over the language and images