SELFIES AND ZOMBIES: CONFRONTING OUR MEDIA, CULTURAL, AND COSMIC CONDITIONS
PANEL
The University of Texas at Austin, October 24-26, 2014
PANELISTS:
Angela Cirucci (PhD Student, Temple U) — "Visual Culture and Our Online Zombie Baggage"
• Click to view/download ppt | ZombieBaggage
Genevieve Gillespie (Future PhD Student) — "Distorted Humans: Selfies and Zombies"
• Click to view/download ppt | DistortedHumans
Barry Vacker (Associate Professor, Temple U) — "Selfies and Zombies: Culltural Responses to Nihilism and Nothingness"
• Click to view/download ppt | SelfieNihilism
For a PDF of the panel summary, click here: Panel.
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Angela Cirucci shows the audience their "online zombie baggage."
Genevieve Gillespie shows that the "zombie-as-other" critique overlooks the deeper meaning of zombies — the "distorted humans" of social media and consumer destruction.