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  Kids Talk Back to the News

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  Renee Hobbs Media Education Lab, University of Rhode Island, Harrington School of Communication and Media

  April 17, 2013

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  Curator's Note Children in the upper elementary grades are beginning to feel like stakeholders in the world ... Ebrahimi Bazzaz worked with a group of preadolescent children over the course of four weeks, beginning with ...
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  Re: Using Critical Media Literacy to Empower Inclusive and Active Voices in Daily Civic Life

  Softened reflection

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  David Cooper Moore Temple University

  Wednesday, April 17, 2013 — 3:30 pm

  and not-knowing, and demanding fuller (or at least sufficient) understanding of our world as a lasting ...
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  Re: Contemporary American Prime-Time Television Serials and the Logics of Conspiracy

  Conspiracy as Serial Narrative

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  Felix Brinker Graduate School of North American Studies, Free University of Berlin

  Saturday, April 20, 2013 — 9:19 am

  answer these demands, at least if we conceive of the conspiracy narrative as a collection of smaller ...
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  Re: It's Easy to Be Green

  Re: It's Easy to Be Green

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  Garrett Broad University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication

  Tuesday, April 23, 2013 — 6:50 pm

  that extends beyond individual consumer habits, or, at the very least, connects individual consumption ...
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  Awkward Black Girl: Too Black for TV

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  Alfred Martin University of Texas at Austin

  May 01, 2013

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  a series called I Hate L.A. Dudes, a show that, at least in its title, has none of the racial specificity ...
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  Awkward: The Floating Signifier

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  Racquel Gates College of Staten Island, CUNY

  May 02, 2013

  2 comments

  Awkward: The Floating Signifier web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl race Issa Rae Curator's Note Awkward: lacking grace or skill when moving. Awkward: difficult to use, do, or deal with. (From link) Awkwardness is key to the appeal of ...
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  Re: Awkward: The Floating Signifier

  Great post Racquel. The

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  Alfred Martin University of Texas at Austin

  Thursday, May 2, 2013 — 7:53 pm

  that other words, like "awkward" begin to stand in for "positive." I think ...
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  Where Do We Go From Here: Musings on Issa Rae and Black Content Producers

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  Kristen Warner University of Alabama

  May 03, 2013

  2 comments

  Rae, and, let's just be real, the support of Rhimes who rarely fails to at least get her series to ...
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  "New York Sequence Initialized": Genre Cues and Play in the Resident Evil Film Franchise

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  Marianna Martin University of Chicago

  May 20, 2013

  begins with strangely domestic Alice in a warmly-lit suburban idyll before the zombies attack and it is ...
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  Jill Sandwich: The Cinema and 'Resident Evil'

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  Kalisha Cornett University of Chicago

  May 23, 2013

  surrender to the reality of all these truths. The determination to at least delay the loss avoidance ...

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