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  "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

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  April Cobos Old Dominion University

  March 31, 2014

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  "Rape Culture" and the Social Media social media sexual assault Circulating pain Curator's Note This is a large portion of the video made by a friend of one of the convicted men in the Steubenville rape case after he received photographs of ...
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  Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror

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  Johnny Walker Northumbria University

  April 01, 2014

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  Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror Jason Impey Circulating pain amateur horror Curator's Note In recent years, film and media studies has witnessed growing interest in the areas of “informal” film distribution ...
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  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

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  Tanya Horeck & Tina Kendall Anglia Ruskin University

  April 02, 2014

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  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos social media Circulating pain affect Curator's Note NekNomination videos – a social media drinking game which involves (mainly) young men drinking potentially lethal combinations of alcohol and then is ...
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  Distorting the Pain of Others

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  Peter Snowdon MAD Faculty, PXL/University of Hasselt, Belgium

  April 04, 2014

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  Distorting the Pain of Others Syria revolution distortion compression Circulating pain Curator's Note This video of two Syrian protesters being beaten up by pro-regime thugs in the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, on 18 March 2011 demands our attention, bot ...