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  “I wanna do a lot of things that don’t make sense”: Intimate Knowledge and Erotic Power

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  Anna Lee Swan University of Washington

  March 24, 2017

  us “to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize our deepest ... feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering and self-negation” (58). In this ...
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  Of Catfish and Cod

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  Elizabeth Lenaghan Northwestern University

  January 31, 2014

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  image begins to punctuate his words at essential junctures: after he explains how catfish "keep the ...
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  Crafting Croft: Avatars, Identity, Representation

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  Linzi Juliano University of California, Los Angeles

  March 14, 2013

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  center around “realness”; in fact, the game begins with her preparing to star in a reality TV show. Since ...
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  Life. Unscripted?

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  Chris Tokuhama University of Southern California

  January 30, 2014

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  recent wave of reality television. We can use the Gale hoax to ask, “What happens when we begin to ...
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  Feeling Place

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  Kevin Sanson UC Santa Barbara

  July 19, 2010

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  of place in an increasingly mediated world. At the very least, the congressman’s emotional display ...
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  Fantastic Journey, Emotional Journey: Mobile Media as Emotive Performance

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  Elizabeth Evans University of Nottingham

  February 18, 2010

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  Fantastic Journey, Emotional Journey: Mobile Media as Emotive Performance public space performance mobile media identity emotion Curator's Note Mobile phones have long been the focus of discussions concerning their role in identity construction. Hand ...
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  Whopper Virgins: Nanook Revisited?

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  Chris Boulton University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  January 26, 2009

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  Whopper Virgins: Nanook Revisited? viral video Orientalism advertising fast food Burger King Whopper Virgins taste test Nanook other identity Curator's Note This faux documentary viral video ad campaign from Burger King reminds me of that infamous sc ...
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  Queer World Making in Canadian Comedies

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  Jason Edward Black University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  May 22, 2020

  storylines involve the Roses interacting disastrously (at least at first) with the "less ...