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  Bleak House- Beautiful Things

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  John Hartley Queensland University of Technology (Australia)

  November 17, 2006

  6 comments

  Bleak House- Beautiful Things affect Youtube BBC fandom pro-am DIY Bleak House Gilian Anderson Andain Curator's Note I'm not sure what's most appropriate for In Media Res. Something notable from recent broadcast television, like BBC's ...
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  Virtual Funeral Crashing

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  Dave Parry University of Texas at Dallas

  July 20, 2007

  3 comments

  outnumbered it was a one sided battle to say the least. This event generated increasingly angry discussion on ...
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  On Political Satire: ‘Ha-Ha’ Funny or Contemptuously So?

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  Jeffrey P. Jones Old Dominion University

  July 24, 2007

  5 comments

  least that is what television critics expected from the Half-Hour News Hour, a Daily Show rip-off which ...
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  Celebrating Kandy Fong: Founder of Fannish Music Video

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  Francesca Coppa Muhlenberg College

  November 19, 2007

  3 comments

  with found footage, since at least 1975, when Kandy Fong made her first slideshows. Inspired by the ...
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  Indian Idol and Flash Fandom

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  Aswin Punathambekar University of Michigan

  November 21, 2007

  5 comments

  Indian Idol and Flash Fandom fandom reality TV international TV formats American Idol Indian Idol regionalism India Amit Paul flash fandom Curator's Note In summer 2007, media coverage of Indian Idol-3 focused on how finalist Amit Paul managed to cre ...
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  You Can’t Stop the Beat – Dance: The Gen X Addiction

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  Kelli Kilgore City of Virginia Beach

  December 04, 2007

  8 comments

  You Can’t Stop the Beat – Dance: The Gen X Addiction fandom reality TV dance So You Think You Can Dance Dancing with the Stars choreography Curator's Note Dance has for years played second fiddle to other art forms on television. Until recently, danc ...
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  Calling on the Colbert Nation: How fan practices complicate irony

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  Catherine Burwell University of Toronto

  January 17, 2008

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  Calling on the Colbert Nation: How fan practices complicate irony politics fandom parody participation irony Stephen Colbert The Colbert Report Linda Hutcheon Colbert Nation Green Screen Challenge Jedis Curator's Note Irony, we know, is always a slip ...
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  “Not Only Human”- an X-Files vid by Killa and Laura Shapiro

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  Tisha Turk Grinnell College

  January 29, 2008

  4 comments

  agency, beginning with her passage through doorways and continuing in her translation of alien symbols ...
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  “Us”- a multivid by Lim

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  Kristina Busse Independent Scholar

  February 01, 2008

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  “Us”- a multivid by Lim V for Vendetta Star Trek Lim fannish engagement fandom fan vids editing affect Curator's Note /we’re living in a den of thieves Lim’s vid thematizes and illustrates how media fans engage with texts—not only the intense love fa ...
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  Man Out of Time: Lost Season 3 Finale

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  Will Brooker Kingston University

  February 12, 2008

  13 comments

  Man Out of Time: Lost Season 3 Finale transmedia temporality puzzles narrative Lostpedia Lost games fandom collective intelligence brand communities ARG ABC Curator's Note It opens, of course, in medias res. We are thrown into the scene – thrown forw ...

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