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  Food Porn on Tumblr: A Mediated Cornucopia of Fantasies, Desires, and Excesses

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  Carlnita P. Greene University of Oregon

  November 26, 2013

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  Food Porn on Tumblr: A Mediated Cornucopia of Fantasies, Desires, and Excesses food porn food media excess Curator's Note If food was once considered merely as sustenance, today it is a fetish object driving visual, literal, and, especially, simulati ...
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  So Beautiful, So Broken: Hunger, Pinterest and Food Bloggers as Activists

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  Hannah Heller Inherit the Spoon

  November 28, 2013

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  anti-hunger campaign resulted in dozens of pins to Pinterest, yes.  But there is also the real possibility ...
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  Food Authorities: The Burger Foundation and the Sources of Expertise

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  November 29, 2013

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  Food Authorities: The Burger Foundation and the Sources of Expertise art authority expertise food Michelle Ellsworth Curator's Note As eaters, we’re bombarded by information about food: what’s good for us, what’s not, what’s the right amount, what’s ...
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  Marshall McLuhan and Harold Adams Innis Watching Netflix

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  December 02, 2013

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  theorists beyond the grave. Today, I’m imagining him in conversation with Harold Adams Innis, that other ...
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  Netflix and Rethinking Ritualized Consumption of Audiovisual Content

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  Ariane Lebot Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

  December 03, 2013

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  Netflix and Rethinking Ritualized Consumption of Audiovisual Content spectatorship Netflix binge-watching Curator's Note This promotional clip for IFC’s Portlandia testifies to the acknowledgment of binge-watching as a widespread practice, as its com ...
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  Re: Netflix and Rethinking Ritualized Consumption of Audiovisual Content

  Good clip and post

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Wednesday, December 4, 2013 — 12:24 am

  watching the episodes together, offer a possible counter to my assertion that it hurts interpersonal ... increasingly little regard for others. Of course, it's also possible to argue that having more programs at ...
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  Querying the Queue

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  Lindsay Bosch Video Data Bank

  December 04, 2013

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  possibility of meaning is liberated from contingencies of use. “Clearly archives are not neutral,” Sekula ...
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  The Big Data TV: Data Analytics, Algorithms, and Netflix’s Original Programming

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  Hye Jin Lee University of Iowa

  December 05, 2013

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  us new possibilities of storytelling in the era of big data by proving a harmonious blend of ...
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  Re: The Big Data TV: Data Analytics, Algorithms, and Netflix’s Original Programming

  Same old formula, more data

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Friday, December 6, 2013 — 1:12 am

  more, the commercial model of Netflix--a subscription rather than pay-per-view model--makes it possible ...
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  The Price of Politics

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  December 09, 2013

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  endurance to animate new physiological possibilities through a body stressed from a greater complexity of ... is to hold both possibilities in a productive tension. The pain and sacrifice of training is vicious, ...

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