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  Re: South Park’s Ironic Whiteness

  I tend to agree with Viveca

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  Amber Day Bryant University

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 3:29 am

  other words, it seems like the possibility of highly diverse readings of the show's humor is built ...
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  Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

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  Amber Day Bryant University

  January 15, 2008

  7 comments

  Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping culture jamming performance art parody consumerism religion irony authenticity Reverend Billy Church of Stop Shopping What Would Jesus Buy Curator's Note Reverend Billy is the bouffa ...
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  Re: South Park’s Ironic Whiteness

  Thanks to Ted for starting

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  Catherine Burwell University of Toronto

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 8:08 am

  polysemy of the text or the possibility of multiple interpretive positions, but just to come back to ...
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  Re: Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

  Not knowing much about

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  Catherine Burwell University of Toronto

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 5:47 pm

  change and the possibility – as you suggest at the end of your post – that politically-significant ...
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  Re: Ironic Authenticity: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

  I haven’t seen the film

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  Viveca Greene Hampshire College

  Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — 7:29 pm

  thoughts. I’m interested in irony as it's used as a rhetorical strategy: how ironists flatter and court ... him). Later this week I’m going to address a political campaign ad that arguably attempts something ...
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  Two Words: Chuck Norris

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  Ian Reilly University of Guelph

  January 16, 2008

  5 comments

  strategy. Riding the wave of popularity made possible by chucknorrisfacts.com, an ever-growing archive of ...
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  Calling on the Colbert Nation: How fan practices complicate irony

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  Catherine Burwell University of Toronto

  January 17, 2008

  5 comments

  Calling on the Colbert Nation: How fan practices complicate irony politics fandom parody participation irony Stephen Colbert The Colbert Report Linda Hutcheon Colbert Nation Green Screen Challenge Jedis Curator's Note Irony, we know, is always a slip ...
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  Re: Calling on the Colbert Nation: How fan practices complicate irony

  I would agree with Jonathan.

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  Amber Day Bryant University

  Friday, January 18, 2008 — 6:34 am

  questions about the almost limitless possibilities for redirecting and transforming irony, as Catherine ...
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  Re: Calling on the Colbert Nation: How fan practices complicate irony

  I'm curious about the extent

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  Viveca Greene Hampshire College

  Friday, January 18, 2008 — 6:41 am

  I'm curious about the extent to which Colbert fans identify themselves--and work they produce--as "political." Do we, as academics, use the term in ways fans themselves wouldn't? And if we do use it differently, or at least more enthus ...
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  “Not Only Human”- an X-Files vid by Killa and Laura Shapiro

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  Tisha Turk Grinnell College

  January 29, 2008

  4 comments

  “Not Only Human”- an X-Files vid by Killa and Laura Shapiro X-Files fandom fan vids editing affect aesthetics Curator's Note One of the most common subgenres of vid is the character study, in which vidders illuminate characters’ emotions or motivatio ...

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