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  Citizens’ Media in Southern Colombia

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  Clemencia Rodriguez University of Oklahoma

  December 13, 2007

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  Citizens’ Media in Southern Colombia labor class alternative media Columbia Los Raspachines Curator's Note The English translation of the text in the video is: “Fabián, Juan Carlos, Mono and Yason present to you “Los Raspachines” (term used in Colomb ...
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  The AMPTP vs. The World

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  December 18, 2007

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  The AMPTP vs. The World history labor SNL WGA strike AMPTP public relations above-the-line Variety conglomeration fin-syn Curator's Note Seven weeks into this strike, you almost feel sorry for the AMPTP. This video, from SNL ’s Fred Armisen, illustra ...
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  Writers & Authorship

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  Julia Himberg University of Southern California

  December 21, 2007

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  Writers & Authorship labor authorship WGA showrunners Curator's Note In film, authorship traditionally belongs to the director. In TV it belongs to the producer. A strand of academic thought has alternatively considered the death of the auteur in ...
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  Professional Lives

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  March 12, 2010

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  Professional Lives procedural drama police labor ideology feminism CSI crime Curator's Note   Middle-class adulthood is the central procedure represented in procedural drama. TV cops, lawyers, and doctors aren't only shown doing their jobs; they ...
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  Producing "The Simpsons": Banksy’s Realism on the Factory Floor

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  Seth Perlow Georgetown University

  January 17, 2011

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  Producing "The Simpsons": Banksy’s Realism on the Factory Floor productions of digital culture production studies labor Korea factory Banksy animation Curator's Note Directed by graffiti mastermind Banksy, this introductory “couch gag” for ...
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  Paying with Bagels: The Labor of Web Video Production

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  Aymar Jean Christian Northwestern University

  January 20, 2011

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  Paying with Bagels: The Labor of Web Video Production web youtube web series productions of digital culture labor independent film Curator's Note A “blockbuster web series” is, as yet, an oxymoron. Yet in a field replete with failures, Felicia Day’s ...
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  Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  May 03, 2011

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  Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary video games playtesting labor Curator's Note Playtesters play videogames that are unstable, unbalanced and riddled with broken code. Their labor is also unstable in that playtesters are frequently short-term contr ...
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  Digital Labor in Participatory Television

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  Adam Fish Lancaster University, Sociology

  May 05, 2011

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  Digital Labor in Participatory Television work TV television Labor in the Media Industries labor immaterial gore fish ethnography digital current tv current culture convergence anthropology Al Gore adam fish adam Curator's Note From 2006-2009, while ...
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  Cinematic Dialectics de bonne heure

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  Louis-Georges Schwartz Ohio University

  September 16, 2014

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  compulsively restaged primal scene brings an aesthetic promise of happiness, or at least respite, in the same ... could stop abjecting racialized surplus populations. Cinema begins with this film that inscribes the ...
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  Women and Superheroes, By the Numbers

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  Shawna Kidman UC San Diego

  November 16, 2015

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  nonexistent) treatment of the few female superheroes we do have. But in standing at least somewhat outside the ...

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