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Tedcast #1: Fantasy and Science Fiction

Here’s  Episode 1 of Tedcast, my rebooted podcast. It’s the first class in Fantasy and Science Fiction Media, a class I taught at GSU in Fall 2010. In this opening lecture, I introduce the concept of genre and discuss what distinguishes fantasy and science fiction, and what they share. ... read more »

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Ted’s Top TV Shows of 2010

1.    Louie
2.    Community
3.    Breaking Bad
4.    Parks & Recreation
5.    Lost
6.    No Reservations
7.    Mad Men
8.    Top Chef
9.    Sunday Night Football ... read more »

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The Politics of Fantasy

Here’s a talk I gave at Berry College on the politics of fantasy films, broken into six parts. ... read more »

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Video hello from my GSU office in downtown Atlanta, 2007 or so

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FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

I just wrote a short piece, FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine, as a “curator’s note” for the digital humanities website In Media Res. Here’s the slideshow that goes with it:

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The Myth Daily

The myth Daily is twitter feed aggregator that organizes 24 hours of tweets taken from a twitter list and turns it into something that looks like a newspaper. The software behind the page is paper.li, and it’s definitely intriguing. ... read more »

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Updates on Tedlog, Tedcast, @tedfriedman, tedfriedman.com, syllabi, ...

I’m in the midst of a blogging-software shift from Movable Type to WordPress, which explains the current inconsistencies between this site (tedfriedman.wordpress.com) and my original website, tedfriedman.com. Eventually I’ll port all of tedfriedman.com over to WordPress, then move this blog itself back to tedfriedman.com, although the tedfriedman.wordpress.com URL should always resolve to right place either way.

In the meantime, until I can unveil tedfriedman.com 3.0, here are links to some of my stuff that’s online: ... read more »

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Updates on Blog, Podcast, Website

I’ve moved my blog, Tedlog: Mythos & Logos on the Commons, over to tedfriedman.wordpress.com while I redesign this website to reflect my current project, A Centaur Manifesto. Meanwhile, you can follow these links to:

Tedcast, my podcast, where I post class lectures and interviews. Currently I’m halfway through my two fall 2010 courses: Fantasy & Science Fiction and Media & Cultural Studies. ... read more »