Critical Essays
Playing with Masculinity: Gender Bending in Second Life
Kaitlinn Clinnin, Virginia Tech University
Typewriters Typing Typists
Sarah K. Jackson, Louisiana State University
It’s Just Not the Same as Print (and It Shouldn’t Be): Rethinking the Possibilities of Digital Comics
Jeffrey S.J. Kirchoff, Millikin University
Plastic Child-Gardening Tools: Lego’s Nostalgia For the Open-Ended Toy
Kate Maddalena, University of North Carolina Wilmington
The Informational Subject in Formation: Telephonic Subjectivity in Wharton and Gaddis
E. L. McCallum, Michigan State University
Your Granny’s Gramophone: The Cultural Impact of 78 rpm Recordings on Ireland and Irish America
Roxanne O’Connell, Roger Williams University
Old Games, Same Concerns: Examining First Generation Video Games Through Popular Press Coverage from 1972-1985
Ryan Rogers, Marist College
“Music to Moog By”: Gendering in Early Analog Synthesizing in the United States
D. Travers Scott, Clemson University
Creative Works
Four Poems
Kevin Brown, Lee University
Composer
Marc Carver
Maury Quad, 1996
Cary Elza, DePaul University
Polaroid Elegy
Brett Foster, Wheaton College
Two Images
Lindsay Patrice Greer, Southern Illinois University
Three Poems
David Gruber, City University of Hong Kong
The Problem of Persistent Technology Narratives and Practioner Use: The Case of the Moog Synthesizer and Moogfest, or Will Analog Survive?
Woodrow Hood, Wake Forest University
Simple Machines
Terry S. Johnson
A Memory of Vinyl
Alan Meyrowitz
Bottle Diggers
Mark A. Neumann, Northern Arizona University and
Michael LeVan, University of South Florida
Medicinal Art
David Radavich
Two Poems
Christina M. Rau, Nassau Community College
Fireside Frights on That Old-Time Radio
Christopher Rowe
Three Photographs
Jody Shipka, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Depression Glass
J. D. Smith
Two Poems
Lenore Weiss
Carousel
Martin Willitts
Elemental Constellations, or, We Are Made of Stars
Nico Wood, Southern Illinois University; and Ramah David Jihan Malebranche
Evolutionary Thoughts
Andrena Zawinski
Reviews
Review of Hyperkin’s RetroN 3
Chet Breaux, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Review of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
Keith Dorwick, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Call for Papers: Future Volumes
