Bill Wolff, PhD

Associate Professor, Communication, Film, and Journalism, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA

Bill

  • photos from eastern state penitentiary

    One of the most incredible spaces I have ever seen: the historic Eastern State Penitentiary in downtown Philly.

  • on trolling

    This past Sunday the New York Times Magazine had a story by Mattathias Schwartz called “The Trolls Among Us” (or, of you look at the title of the HTML document and not the story, “Malwebolence: The World of Web Trolling”). The story details the exploits of a group of men and women who, it…

  • daily show takes on cable news graphics

    The hyperbole is just wonderful:

  • more on classifying gender

    Last week I wrote about the Olympic Committee’s decision to test female athletes who were suspected of being male. Jennifer Finney Boylan has written more on the subject in a New York Times Op-Ed, “The XY Games,” which appeared on 30 June 2008. Boylan, a professor of English at Colby College in Maine, is…