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• In Media Res
  Re: Queer Nostalgia: The Juan Gabriel Biographical Series

  Nostalgia in form and content

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  Richard Jermain University of Tampa

  Tuesday, December 13, 2016 — 3:13 am

  Thanks, Roberto, for your compelling insights into this series. It is interesting that the romantic scene relies on telenovela tropes, which, as you pointed out, runs opposed to the intention of garnering wider appeal with the series format. It is almost ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Free Time for the Limited Subject

  Thanks for your reply. I

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  Richard Jermain University of Tampa

  Wednesday, December 14, 2016 — 1:07 am

  Thanks for your reply. I think I would agree that a variety of socio-cultural industries factor in here. Perhaps another way of saying this is that what we encounter with online viewing habits is an industrial logic that has suffused the culture with a ne ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Free Time for the Limited Subject

  Thanks for your reply. I am

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  Richard Jermain University of Tampa

  Wednesday, December 14, 2016 — 1:11 am

  Thanks for your reply. I am afraid I neglected some aspects of anxiety for time considerations. For instance, many people point out that the end of a series is often very disappointing because one is no longer able to continually bing the program. But you ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Make America Dank Again: Why Political Memes Don’t Work

  Thanks for your excellent

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  Richard Jermain University of Tampa

  Tuesday, February 21, 2017 — 3:42 am

  Thanks for your excellent entry. I'm curious how you see the relation of political memes to more traditional agit-prop (they at least resemble the aesthetic approach); or if you see them as a different approach altogether. I think it's an intere ...