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Internet Topics
Online Advertising Is a Waste of Money. Draft-in-Progress, 2003.
Evaluates the costs and lack of payoffs of online advertising.
   
Search and Advanced Search User Experience Requirements. Advanstar Communications, 2001.
Describes some of the major pitfalls of Website search tools and specifies requirements for two aspects of user experience: "the interface (design of the search forms and results pages) and the functionality (how well it matches and sorts pages)."
   
MarchFIRST, Organic, Razorfish, & Xceed: Models of Success (PDF). 2000.
This 60-page research report, prepared for a Japanese company, outlines the offerings of four major interactive agencies and the contrasting approaches they have taken to reach their mutual goal of "one-stop shopping" service offerings in the highly volatile internet industry of early 2000. Clicking on the link will open a printable PDF document in Acrobat Reader.
   
Interactive Gaming Overview. Ogilvy Interactive, 2000.
Surveys online gaming from a development standpoint, describing different types of games, evaluating their quality, and explaining development requirements. Also includes a list of game developers.
   
  COPPA's Impact on Data Capture on Kids' Websites. Ogilvy Interactive, 2000.
Summarizes the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and explains how the law impacts the ability of Kids' websites to collect data.
   
Humanities Subjects
The Puked-Upon Whore Speaks: Angry Essentialism and the Avant-Garde. 1998.
Chapter 2 of my doctoral dissertation examines the influences of the poete maudit, Shamanic, and Dionysian traditions of the avant-garde on abject feminist performance art. Clicking on the link will open a printable PDF document in Acrobat Reader.
   
The Metacolonization of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle: Mimicry, Parasitism, and Americanism in the P.S.A. Science-Fiction Studies 22.67 (Nov. 1995): 333-42.
Application of postcolonial theory to Dick's alternate universe sci-fi novel. Clicking on the link will open a printable PDF document in Acrobat Reader.
   
“Jim Carroll.” Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Ed. Scot Peacock. Vol. 115. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 56-61.
   
“Jim Carroll.” Contemporary Literary Criticism 143. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 25-54.
   
“Period of Adjustment: High Point Over a Cavern: A Serious Comedy." Tennessee Williams: A Guide to Research and Performance. Ed. Philip C. Kolin. Westport: Greenwood, 1998. 204-10.
   
"'Woman, Red in Tooth and Claw': Angry Essentialism, Abjection, and Visionary Liberation in Women's Performances [Excerpts]." Scary Women Sep. 1997.
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/women
   
"The Birth and Death of Bigger Thomas in Individualist America." MAWA Review 1.2 (Dec. 1996): 94-99.
“Jim Carroll." Juice [Sweden] Nov. 1996: np.
   
“The Sickness That Takes Years to Perfect: Jim Carroll’s Alchemical Vision." Dionysos: Literature and Addiction 6.1 (Winter 1996): 6-19.
   
"Jim Carroll: An Annotated, Selective, Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 1967– 1988." Bulletin of Bibliography 47.2 (1990): 81-112.
   
 
   
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