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  Re: Once More, With Feeling: GLEE “Imagines” a Karaoke Future

  Utopia's Rehearsals and Karaoke's Future

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  Christine B Balance Asian American Studies, UC Irvine

  Thursday, April 8, 2010 — 6:19 am

  phenomenon is to remain blind to its international scope-- both in that it permeates social life in Asia AND ...
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  Marketing Mythology on India’s Cartoon Network

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  Barton Scott Montana State University

  April 12, 2010

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  Marketing Mythology on India’s Cartoon Network Hinduism comic books animation Curator's Note At 11am on Sunday, March 28, 2010, Cartoon Network India aired the first episode of its new series, Amar Chitra Katha or “Immortal Picture Stories” (hencefor ...
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  Screening Hinduism

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  Barton Scott Montana State University

  Tuesday, April 13, 2010 — 12:08 am

  I wonder whether some of the attention devoted to the ACK's possible Hindu bias owes its energy to ...
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  Attending to Attention: Church Bells, Prayer Calls, and American Public Space

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  Isaac Weiner Georgia State University

  April 13, 2010

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  moreover, that religious sounds could not possibly constitute noise. “Noise” is a funny thing.   On the one ...
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  “The Same God Made Us All”: The Particular Universalism of Religion in America

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  Jenna Tiitsman UNC-Chapel Hill and Auburn Media

  April 14, 2010

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  Similarly, this television ad turns to the widest public possible and claims it as the very foundation of ...
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  Imagining the Self-Controller: ‘The Wild Divine Project’ as an Experiment in Religious Game Interface

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  Vincent Gonzalez UNC - Chapel Hill

  April 15, 2010

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  Imagining the Self-Controller: ‘The Wild Divine Project’ as an Experiment in Religious Game Interface wellness video games spirituality new age branding Curator's Note /*-->*/ The Wild Divine Project has posed a classificatory problem since 2003, ...
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  Re: “The Same God Made Us All”: The Particular Universalism of Religion in America

  The Exclusionary Politics of Inclusion

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  Isaac Weiner Georgia State University

  Thursday, April 15, 2010 — 1:03 pm

  appropriation in this way.  But with paraphrasing (as with God?), all things are possible. ...
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  Re: Imagining the Self-Controller: ‘The Wild Divine Project’ as an Experiment in Religious Game Interface

  Audiences and Their Motives

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  Karen Gonzalez Rice Connecticut College

  Friday, April 16, 2010 — 6:09 pm

  playing these games?   What are the target audiences for these types of games?   I’m wondering about the ... create new needs but actually tap into traditional practices.   I’m curious about whether you see these ...
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  Economics You Can Play, Not Economics You Can Use?

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  Randy Nichols University of Washington Tacoma

  April 23, 2010

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  Economics You Can Play, Not Economics You Can Use? video games The Sims economics consumption Curator's Note Video games have painted economic pictures – and been economic playgrounds – since the 1980s.  More than three decades of games engaging with ...
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  Re: Economics You Can Play, Not Economics You Can Use?

  Grand Theft Auto

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  Elizabeth Heffelfinger Western Carolina University

  Friday, April 23, 2010 — 1:54 pm

  often subversive labor and financial world. I'm also thinking about war games and the possible uses ...

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