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  Black Mirror and the Stickiness of Science Fiction Anthologies in the Streaming Era

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  James Elrod University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  March 11, 2019

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  Black Mirror and the Stickiness of Science Fiction Anthologies in the Streaming Era Science Fiction anthology series streaming media Black Mirror Curator's Note “Black Museum” (2017) self-reflexively ponders both  Black Mirror (2011–) and dystopian s ...
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  Love Death + Robots: Netflix and the Global Sci-Fi Anthology

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  Rusty Hatchell The University of Texas at Austin

  March 15, 2019

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  both produced transnationally and distributed globally, Love Death + Robots surveys the possibilities ...
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  Re: Black Mirror and the Stickiness of Science Fiction Anthologies in the Streaming Era

  Oh, definitely! There are

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  James Elrod University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  Friday, March 15, 2019 — 5:20 pm

  contracts for actors, etc. I feel like there are so many interersting possibilities for media industry ...
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  What's Going On? Cinematic Montage and Televisual Narrative

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  Corey K Creekmur University of Iowa

  March 18, 2019

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  mouthing the lyrics while being prepped for a possible lobotomy to “cure” her trans identity.  As the ...
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  Okaeri: Living with your favorite character

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  Shelley M Park University of Central Florida

  Mumtaz Hammad University of Central Florida

  April 01, 2019

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  Okaeri: Living with your favorite character augmented reality feminism care Gender/Queer Theory Orientalism Curator's Note “Okaeri” is a promotional video for an augmented reality technology produced by the Japanese company Gatebox.  The video market ...
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  Re: Okaeri: Living with your favorite character

  Great piece! I'm particularly

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  Andrew Kemp Georgia State University

  Monday, April 1, 2019 — 1:48 pm

  Great piece! I'm particularly fascinated by the technology's modes of blurring the private and public sphere. The fact that the character can ask for you to come home early to spend time with her is such a specific, and even romantic, choice tha ...
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  Dancing Out the Threat of Corporal Obsolescence in VR

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  Dillon Heyck

  April 02, 2019

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  possibilities that a new medium like virtual reality opens up might not mean that old media is willing to be ...
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  AR Horror Gimmicks: Sites of Unbounded Potential and Vulnerability

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  Alexander Svensson Indiana University, Bloomington

  April 02, 2019

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  own possibilities of material unboundedness and breakdown. Importantly, these notions of bodily excess ...
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  Virtual Reality is a weird machine

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  Vicki Williams University of Birmingham

  April 03, 2019

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  Virtual Reality is a weird machine Virtual Reality immersion weird affect and embodiment Ontology Curator's Note Virtual reality is weird. By its very nature, VR asks users to immerse themselves in a digitally simulated “world” and think of it as rea ...
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  Re: Okaeri: Living with your favorite character

  Glass and imprisonment

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  University of Copenhagen

  Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 3:04 pm

  existing  within  the device (rather than  as  the device) possible at all. Upon closer inspection, however, ...

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