http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/friendship The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/friendship-freshman-seminar <p>What can we learn from eighteen eighteen-year-olds about friendship? Here are some ethnographic notes I made from a freshman seminar I taught this past fall.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/friendship-freshman-seminar">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/friendship-freshman-seminar#comments Facebook Friendship hyper-reality Intimacy Social Media students http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1391 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:50:00 -0800 Gregory Jusdanis 1391 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/ishmael-joey-and-ross-whither-american-manhood <p>Two American classics, two notorious scenes, two different ends. So what happened to American masculinity in the decades between <i>Moby Dick</i> and “Friends?”</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/ishmael-joey-and-ross-whither-american-manhood">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/ishmael-joey-and-ross-whither-american-manhood#comments Friends, Friendship Gay panic Masculinity http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1322 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 06:52:42 -0700 Gregory Jusdanis 1322 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/facebook-cooler-google <p>Why are we more excited by Facebook than by Google? I thought about this question a couple of weeks ago when the media ran stories about the rivalry between these two corporations.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/facebook-cooler-google">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/facebook-cooler-google#comments data-base Facebook Friendship google Intimacy literature narrative The Social Network http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1295 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:42:43 -0700 Gregory Jusdanis 1295 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/friendship-commodity <p>Question: Where does friendship turn into a thing? Answer: On Facebook. </p> <p> I don’t mean that new digital technologies convert friends into objects. This would be a simplistic reading of social media. I argue, rather, that they transform our human desire for connections into a commercial activity. </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/friendship-commodity">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/friendship-commodity#comments consumerism Facebook Friendship Intimacy Personal Relationships Social Media http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1175 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:55:39 -0800 Gregory Jusdanis 1175 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/against-friendship <p>The glaze in their eyes gives it away, the slight tightening of their lips, and the nervous breath. When colleagues learn about my new project, they begin to feel sorry for me. “Why friendship of all subjects?” It’s seems quaint to them or just light; in any case, not a legitimate object of inquiry. </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/against-friendship">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/against-friendship#comments Brokeback Mountain Epic of Gilgamesh Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick Friendship homosexuality/heterosexuality Identity literature and friendship http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/993 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:15:32 -0700 Gregory Jusdanis 993 at http://arcade.stanford.edu