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  Re: How do you hide behind a Kindle? Using books as screens on screen

  Instant consumption.

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  Kathryn Heintzman Queen's University

  Wednesday, December 2, 2009 — 5:46 am

  relationship to work play into the conditions of possibility for the Kindle to exist? With increasingly ... a wealth of knowledge with them with little effort.   By selling the possibility of downloading whole books ...
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  Sleight of Hand: A Model of secrecy in public

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  Jason Derby Georgia State University

  August 15, 2014

  demand by Jay to focus on his hands creates the possibility that we will be subsumed into a world where ... at the same time altering the horizon of possibilities. This relation does not take place in dark ...
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  Pee-Wee Herman Marries a Fruit...Salad

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  Charles Daniel Redmond Tufts University

  December 31, 2014

  2 comments

  that this promise of endless possibility is what kept children my age (and, unsurprisingly, a number of ... light-hearted moment on a children’s television program uncannily queer and open to possibilities far beyond the ...
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  In Search of Identity: Fanfics, Cosplay and Character Building in 'Adventure Time'

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  Philippe Bédard Concordia University

  January 05, 2015

  5 comments

  characters live out scenarios that are not possible otherwise. In addition, online fandoms present ... their existence and their importance. Is it possible, then, that Adventure Time is more than just about ...
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  Tracing the Post-Human impulse: Confessions of the Messenger

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  Jason Derby Georgia State University

  January 19, 2015

  4 comments

  fully developed past the bounds of the body to provide a new world of possibility for thinking through ... possibility of the post-human to reconfigure the conception of the body and the categories of gender that help ...
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  To Document or Intervene?

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  Ben Brucato Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  March 05, 2015

  1 comment

  tips on how to use a cell phone to produce the best possible footage of an incident. With ... to prepare oneself to document—as clearly as possible—a police-civilian encounter, where does that ...
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  “It’s in my code!”: Glitch as Gendered Ontology

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  Juan Llamas-Rodriguez University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication

  March 29, 2016

  1 comment

  reappropriating the (discursive and material) markings of the sexed body enacts possibilities for more resilient, ... malfunctioning into possibilities for new forms of gameplay (including a glitch power on Disney Infinity). Not ...
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  Gotta Catch On: Intertextuality and the Popularity of Pokémon Go

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  Katharine McCain The Ohio State University

  October 15, 2016

  1 comment

  to spread Pokémon Go to as wide an audience as possible, including non-gamers.  Initially Niantic ... possibilities. How awesome would it be if Eleven, Negasonic, and Furiosa were the same being, the ultimate ...
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  Tandem Transformational Game Design

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  Alexandra To Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

  April 14, 2017

  framework-building as possible alignment activities, but more types of activities are possible. Additionally, more ...
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  Re: Gaming on the Spectrum: Autism and Xbox Live

  Perils of Xbox Live

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  Monday, April 4, 2011 — 8:50 pm

  restricting communication in this way eliminates the possibility for positive social experiences with other ... meaning it is more difficult to assess what is appropriate. One possibility is to follow the lead of other ...

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