Knowledge Commons | Jon Heggestad | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/jonheggestad/activity/ Activity feed for Jon Heggestad. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:50:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 69688ad50656e8bb5b295d7f5e2ce386 Jon Heggestad wrote a new post, Review of Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=197 Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:23:00 -0400 The concept of a queer identity is, at times, paradoxical. While half of the definitions Webster lists for “identity” refer to a condition of “sameness,” “queer” is frequently evoked to indicate a breaking aw […]

]]> a098bf67778d739ccd472f7fd13cac43 Jon Heggestad wrote a new post, Numbered Lives: Kick Off Interview with Jacqueline Wernimont (Nehal El-Hadi and Jon Heggestad), on the site Social and Political Issues https://social-political-issues.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=109 Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:41:00 -0400 This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont.
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By Nehal El-Hadi & Jon […]

]]> a16190e9f789083edae0f05566936285 Jon Heggestad wrote a new post, Discussion of Numbered Lives, Introduction (Jon Heggestad), on the site Social and Political Issues https://social-political-issues.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=110 Sun, 23 Jun 2019 21:16:00 -0400 This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont.
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Introduction
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]]> fc40deddf04ede1295459be469e2d501 Jon Heggestad wrote a new post, Review of The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=247 Tue, 21 May 2019 16:38:00 -0400 Social media theorist Nathan Jurgenson describes his new book as “the culmination of [his] thinking about the rise of social photography, written from within and outside academia, within and outside industry” (11 […]

]]> db4dd119cc157123ee2331af6d632f48 Jon Heggestad commented on the post, Viral Nostalgia in Levan Gabriadze's Unfriended (2014), on the site Caitlin Duffy http://caitlinduffy.hcommons.org/2018/03/15/viral-nostalgia-in-levan-gabriadzes-unfriended-2014/#comment-41 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 02:50:39 -0400 Yuck. But what a great application of this idea of viral nostalgia! You do such a great job of finding extremely relevant examples. I also just wanted to note that you always switch things up in such a surprising […]

]]> 3e612f2c0892860a4e596d39803ac2cd Jon Heggestad wrote a new post, Weaving, Coding & Storytelling: A Conversation with Francesca Rodriguez Sawaya, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=443 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:16:00 -0500 The conversation below with Francesca Rodriguez Sawaya began at a workshop I attended last month called “Weaving to Code, Coding to Weave" on Stony Brook University's campus. Rodriguez Sawaya led the event alongs […]

]]> ae8372fec7ef8b912a7ffde724c8056e Jon Heggestad commented on the post, The Avatar Nightmare: Body Horror and Digital Identity, on the site Caitlin Duffy http://caitlinduffy.hcommons.org/2018/03/05/the-avatar-nightmare-body-horror-and-digital-identity/#comment-35 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 04:15:20 -0500 After keeping up with your excellent live-tweeting of Stoker Con, I did not expect you to be writing about Jumanji, but I'm glad you did! Your analysis of the film (and its representation of avatars) in light of […]

]]> 6865139bed1ff769a6ecf0cae557010a Jon Heggestad commented on the post, Heels, Faces, and Cyborgs: Cyberfeminism and the WWE, on the site Caitlin Duffy http://caitlinduffy.hcommons.org/2018/02/26/heels-faces-and-cyborgs-cyberfeminism-and-the-wwe/#comment-28 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 04:43:24 -0500 The post I've been waiting for. I may be a convert to the WWE yet; time will tell.

I'm mostly intrigued by this idea of a very constructed character's feminism. I'm thinking of what you wrote about Alexa, […]

]]> d4ff5e1119d25ab5eb396da103785a66 Jon Heggestad commented on the post, Rules and Narrative, on the site Caitlin Duffy http://caitlinduffy.hcommons.org/2018/02/19/rules-and-narrative/#comment-22 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 01:35:22 -0500 This is such a great application of the intrigue concept! It hadn't occurred to me before, but intrigue might be, in a way, inversely connected to the idea of literary affordances. What do you think? The more […]

]]> 59a7bd92f0c3243deee0e0564b9b3e11 Jon Heggestad commented on the post, 'Feed me a stray cat': Meme Magic and Worshipping Donald Trump, on the site Caitlin Duffy http://caitlinduffy.hcommons.org/2018/02/11/feed-me-a-stray-cat-meme-magic-and-worshipping-donald-trump/#comment-21 Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:56:20 -0500 Yes, thank you! Glad you were able to join us in class today. I really didn't understand the concept of meme magic until you connected to chaos magic. I'm about to set out to use this new information to summon up some good.

]]> 8336acb96ddf29e94876f755851afff4 Jon Heggestad commented on the post, Katherine N. Hayles's Virtual Bodies and Black Mirror's "USS Callister", on the site Caitlin Duffy http://caitlinduffy.hcommons.org/2018/02/05/katherine-n-hayless-virtual-bodies-and-black-mirrors-uss-callister/#comment-7 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 02:35:11 -0500 Sad. I had three points, and two got deleted. Ha. The first two were shorter:
1. I loved this post, and I wrote about an episode of Black Mirror this week, too.
2. Thinking about your fourth question that you […]

]]> bb7cd5cee71227fe5a3d4c3832f5e498 Jon Heggestad commented on the post, Katherine N. Hayles's Virtual Bodies and Black Mirror's "USS Callister", on the site Caitlin Duffy http://caitlinduffy.hcommons.org/2018/02/05/katherine-n-hayless-virtual-bodies-and-black-mirrors-uss-callister/#comment-6 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 02:32:36 -0500 3. You wrote, "The signified consciousnesses in 'U.S.S. Callister' are both castrated and are prone to mutation. As of right now, I’m not sure what to make of this, but I’d love to hear your thoughts." This rem […]

]]> 914695cbf4763a3664f45a684e1787ea Jon Heggestad wrote a new post, “Culture First”: An Interview with Jentery Sayers, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=485 Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:32:00 -0500 Two weeks into the spring semester at the University of Victoria, Jentery Sayers, who is an Associate Professor in the English department there, took an hour between morning meetings to tell me about his […]

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