Jennifer O’meara
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer O’meara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | O’meara |
| SIGNATURE | O’MEARA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0257-422X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aberrant AI creations
The emergence in 2022 of surreal and grotesque image sets created using the free online AI text-to-image generator DALL-E Mini (Craiyon) prompts our analysis of their aesthetic content and connections to preexisting media forms and trends in digital culture. DALL-E Mini uses an unfiltered database of images from the internet to create new images based on a user’s text prompt, often resulting in misshapen bodies and impossible scenarios. Despite i…
Merrie Snell, Lipsynching (Study of Sound Series)
In April 2020, following US president Donald Trump’s misguided remarks about consuming disinfectant as a treatment for coronavirus, comedian Sarah Cooper began to post short videos of herself lipsynching to Trump’s COVID-19 briefings on social media. On Twitter, her ‘How to medical’ (sic) video currently has some 17.5 million views and half a million ‘likes’.1 Another video, one based on a Trump statement that the USA had so many positive cases o…
Call her moonchild
With a focus on how Christina Ricci performs the ‘bad girl’ body, one that renegotiates idealised forms of whiteness and ventures into performances of ‘white trash’, this article demonstrates how the actress’s evolution from child to adult star was smoothed by a youthful physicality in adulthood, and a consistent performance of bodily taboos in both periods. By examining Ricci’s physical presentation and associations with transgressive girlhood a…
What “The Bechdel Test” doesn’t tell us
Discourse surrounding women in cinema is increasingly structured around metaphors of the voice. In the past five years “The Bechdel Test,” which measures women’s film dialogue using a simple quanti
What “The Bechdel Test” doesn’t tell us
Discourse surrounding women in cinema is increasingly structured around metaphors of the voice. In the past five years “The Bechdel Test,” which measures women’s film dialogue using a simple quanti
What “The Bechdel Test” doesn’t tell us
Discourse surrounding women in cinema is increasingly structured around metaphors of the voice. In the past five years “The Bechdel Test,” which measures women’s film dialogue using a simple quanti
Call her moonchild
With a focus on how Christina Ricci performs the ‘bad girl’ body, one that renegotiates idealised forms of whiteness and ventures into performances of ‘white trash’, this article demonstrates how the actress’s evolution from child to adult star was smoothed by a youthful physicality in adulthood, and a consistent performance of bodily taboos in both periods. By examining Ricci’s physical presentation and associations with transgressive girlhood a…
Merrie Snell, Lipsynching (Study of Sound Series)
In April 2020, following US president Donald Trump’s misguided remarks about consuming disinfectant as a treatment for coronavirus, comedian Sarah Cooper began to post short videos of herself lipsynching to Trump’s COVID-19 briefings on social media. On Twitter, her ‘How to medical’ (sic) video currently has some 17.5 million views and half a million ‘likes’.1 Another video, one based on a Trump statement that the USA had so many positive cases o…
Aberrant AI creations
The emergence in 2022 of surreal and grotesque image sets created using the free online AI text-to-image generator DALL-E Mini (Craiyon) prompts our analysis of their aesthetic content and connections to preexisting media forms and trends in digital culture. DALL-E Mini uses an unfiltered database of images from the internet to create new images based on a user’s text prompt, often resulting in misshapen bodies and impossible scenarios. Despite i…
Art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Appeal (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)