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Modern Telethon

Monday, August 19, 2019 to Friday, August 23, 2019

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Lyndsey SheltonGeorgia State University

Fandom Good Works

Monday, August 19, 2019

Kickstarting the Olympics

By Evelyn Bottando

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

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Acceptable Paternalism in the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Show of Strength

By Emily Stones

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

That Thing on Facebook

By Gail McFarland

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Gamers in Action: Charity Gaming

By Lyndsey Shelton

Friday, August 23, 2019

Featured Content

8/19/2019 to 8/23/2019
Modern Telethon

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Lyndsey SheltonGeorgia State University
8/12/2019 to 8/16/2019
Popular Deconstructions

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Daniel Van JelgerhuisGeorgia State University
8/5/2019 to 8/9/2019
Hideo Kojima

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Andrew KempGeorgia State University
7/29/2019 to 8/2/2019
Celebrity Podcasting

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ethan tusseyGeorgia State University
5/27/2019 to 5/31/2019
Summer Reading Staff Picks
5/20/2019 to 5/24/2019
Self-Mediation in Contemporary Media

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Jenny GunnGeorgia State University

Recent comments

Re: Drop Dead Fred and Polysemy: A Podcast Contends with Multiple Readings of a Film

I LOVED Drop Dead Fred

By Charisse L'Pree

Friday, August 16, 2019 - 13:30

And I'm glad that someone is taking it seriously. It is probably one of the few films that has a very honest (albeit sinister) reading of the "imaginary friend" and really set my understanding of what an imaginary friend meant. I was an only child (...
Re: Movie Dialogue Samples, Taste, and Historical Reception Practices

Dialogue Sampling in Hip Hop

By Charisse L'Pree

Friday, August 16, 2019 - 13:22

I appreciate Doles' point regarding the waning use of movie dialogue in music, although I would have liked them to mention the way this structure is deployed in hip hop, a genre that is built on sampling and remixing. In my classes, we talk about...
Re: And What Of Those Immaterial Death Strandings?

Borges!!

By Braden Timss

Tuesday, August 13, 2019 - 01:42

Nice find! I really need to read some Borges ASAP. I recently read Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo and The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, his protege, as I understand it, and both experiences have me massively...
Re: And What Of Those Immaterial Death Strandings?

Kefka-esque

By Braden Timss

Tuesday, August 13, 2019 - 01:39

I think that comparison is apt, Ashely. For example, I think you could maybe follow this logic to the point where you could call things like Half-Life 2 - Episode 3, Spore (?), Duke Nukem Forever, and the promise of Star Citizen immaterial/strand...
Re: And What Of Those Immaterial Death Strandings?

How to reconcile

By Braden Timss

Tuesday, August 13, 2019 - 01:33

Spot on questions, Gianni. Despite my provocating in my post, I am essentially in the same spot as you are. I doubt that the distance between immaterial and material games can be closed, and I am not so sure that it would necessarily be more...