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How 'bout Them Apples? – A 19th Century Object Lesson for 21st Century Technology

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David J. Gunkel Northern Illinois University

January 14, 2011

ourselves entertaining the possibility that Kaspar Hauser might be right. What used to be described as ... orientations, we may begin to perceive other possibilities—possibilities that will undoubtedly have fundamental ...

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Black Twitter- Contagious Hashtags

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Sanjay Sharma Brunel University

March 27, 2014

such as Facebook et al don’t exhibit the technological affordances that can make possible ‘Black ... While Twitter is a vast social network it exhibits a ‘small world’ phenomenon: the possibility of ... production of contagious social connections. Black Twitter multiplies the possibilities of being raced ...

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Dreaming of Qatar: The Spectacle and Fantasies of World Cup 2022

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Michael Butterworth Ohio University

October 24, 2014

their lives to make it possible or the citizens for whom Qatar’s wealth remains out of reach. At the ... Possibility.” In the wake of World Cup 2014, and in the context of global capitalism, we would be well served to ... ask, “Possibility, for whom?” ...

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A familiar scene of pistols: No Country for Old Men’s adaptation of Target Pistol and Man

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Emily Hiltz Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

October 16, 2015

plotline of past and future violence by suspending visual evidence of Carla Jean’s possible off-screen ... and Man (1980). Labelled a pop culture pairing, both images supply an unsettling taste of possible ... of Anton's prior violence. As such, a clear vision of Carla Jean’s possible fate is constructed ...

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Re: Growing Up Potter: Death and Maturity in the Harry Potter Fandom

Meaning, Honesty

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Vincent Gonzalez UNC - Chapel Hill

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 — 9:45 pm

literature, we should be cautious not to overstate her achievement, or understate what is possible in ... possibility of meaningless death. If we accept the list of deaths on Wikipedia, Luna's mother, Rowena ... be very different if the books actually offered the grotesque possibility of death by accident, ...

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Re: The Price of Politics

Question of Orientation

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Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 — 2:52 am

mean to suggest athletics as a means to political possibility directly, simply that sport is most often ... conceptions of possibility like these athletes have oriented themselves to winning Olympic gold through their ... training, which opens that goal as a possibility in this clip. ...

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Re: Pump & Dump the Patriarchy: How Media Influences Motherhood

Sexy or sexual?

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University of Canterbury

Thursday, May 9, 2019 — 11:43 pm

possible to read it in an alternative way. For intance, while I agree with Shelley about the construction ... representations of breastfeeding babies (and it can, of course, also being really hard, a possibility that ... such images usually occlude). Finally, I wonder if it's possible to read McAdams here as sexual rather ...

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Re: The Last Lion King of Scotland