"Media Culture is the result of the industrialization of information and culture. Images, sounds and spectacles help produce the fabric of life, dominating leisure time, shaping political views and social behavior, and providing the materials out of which people forge their identities."- Doug Kellner
My name is Leslie Kawakami and I am a brand new graduate student at California State University, Northridge, hoping to be admitted to the Rhetoric and Composition option. I've always been intimidated by (but thoroughly fascinated in) theory, and so by taking theory courses and studying theory and reading lots and lots of theory, I'm hoping to get so cozy with theory that I dream in it.
Additionally, throughout my undergrad academic career, I've flirted with aspects of media studies, sociology, pop culture, and techie culture, and I'm hoping to continue to pursue these topics of interests through this course.
Other personal notes about myself: I'm an avid reader of Wired, Flavorwire and Atlantic Wire. My newest obsession is Pinterest mostly because it satisfies the OCD part of my personality. This summer, I read Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe in order to better understand string theory and quantum mechanics. I regularly chart my reading habits at Shelfari.
