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  Re: Transmedia Recipes? Consuming Butterbeer, Pumpkin Juice and Everyflavor Beans

  Thank you for you comment,

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  Lisa Schmidt Bishop's University

  Thursday, November 18, 2010 — 2:16 pm

  recipes.  I agree with you about the possibility for unlicensed and licensed creativity...and I also tend to ...
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  Re: Transmedia Recipes? Consuming Butterbeer, Pumpkin Juice and Everyflavor Beans

  Mmmm... Tastes official

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  Vincent Gonzalez UNC - Chapel Hill

  Thursday, November 18, 2010 — 4:54 pm

  does some violence in restricting imaginative possibilities, we should take care not to let our ...
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  A Disabling Environment

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  Katie Ellis Murdoch University

  November 29, 2010

  2 comments

  stuck in the rain and late for his job interview. When he finally arrives he can not possibly be ... on his part. Both Finklestein’s thought experiment and the Talk! films show that it is possible to ... new possibilities for media representation. ...
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  Performance and Play: Mental Disability and the Class Character of Tarnation

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  Rachel Thibault University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  December 01, 2010

  2 comments

  one that makes Tarnation possible in the first place. The film portrays mental illness not as obstacle ...
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  The Flourish

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  Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

  December 06, 2010

  4 comments

  The Flourish street fighter procedural rhetoric e-sports Curator's Note Debates rage about the social and political functions of videogames. Videogames allow us to enter the bodies and minds of virtual others, explore worlds that exist only in the im ...
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  Re: The Flourish

  re: rules

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  Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

  Tuesday, December 7, 2010 — 6:49 am

  these communities work, let alone being able to think meaningfully on the possibility of doing violence ...
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  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  December 08, 2010

  7 comments

  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine simulation postmodernism gaming farmville Facebook Curator's Note 57.6 million Facebook users play FarmVille. Granted, not all of them are people.  Two are my cats, Noisy and Pilot Squeaky. In FarmVille, it helps ...
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  Re: FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

  Re: Cooperative Farmvill-ing

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 12:25 am

  exploits the full expressive possibilities of social media, as games like Little Big Planet do. It's ...
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  Re: FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

  I'm on your farm, stealing your vegetables

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  Alenda Chang University of California, Berkeley

  Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 10:55 pm

  Popular farm games in Asia (Happy Farm in China and Taiwan, Sunshine Ranch in Japan) have no problem ...
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  The Art of Seduction: Film Spectatorship in the Age of the Cell Phone

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  Sarah Sinwell University of Utah

  December 13, 2010

  5 comments

  The Art of Seduction: Film Spectatorship in the Age of the Cell Phone Sundance film spectatorship cell phones Curator's Note The video clip contains nudity. It is most likely not safe for work.    Coproduced by both the Sundance Channel and the Natio ...

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