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  Experiment as Plot

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  Sarah O'Brien Georgia Institute of Technology

  September 10, 2013

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  really an experiment from the beginning,” Bryan Cranston reflected in the debut episode of “The Writers’ ... connections (at least for me—I’m a humanities scholar). Not so in the world of “Breaking Bad.” What I find so ...
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  Profile Pictures, T-Shirts, and Visibility Campaigns

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  Joel Penney Montclair State University

  September 16, 2013

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  a range of constituencies are beginning to realize how this identity-marking power can be utilized for ...
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  "Normal Barbie" as Digital Visual Activism?

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  Dara Persis Murray Manhattanville College

  September 17, 2013

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  "Normal Barbie" as Digital Visual Activism? visual culture visual activism digital culture beauty Curator's Note "Normal Barbie" (also called "average Barbie") has recently created yet another media dialogue about the Ma ...
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  Hi Dara, What a unique

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  Jackie Davis Independant

  Wednesday, September 18, 2013 — 12:12 am

  'normal' 'average' 'surprisingly attractive!' female body. To me, at least, this ...
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  The Queer Geek Adonis

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  Matthew french Old Dominion University

  September 26, 2013

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  Nerd (2011)  video with other representations of queer geek bodies beginning in the 1980’s through the ... In my video, discourse surrounding queer geek bodies begins in the scene of the flamboyant Lamar from ... Folk (2005) begins to show how the queer geek body is moving towards the described McGovern standard. ...
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  The Fanboy next Door: Whedon and his Appeal to self-professed Geeks

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  Maria Sulimma University Duisburg-Essen

  October 02, 2013

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  The Fanboy next Door: Whedon and his Appeal to self-professed Geeks Much Ado About Joss Whedon geek authorship Curator's Note One aspect about Joss Whedon and his work worthy of discussion is his appeal to “geek” audiences and the way he is marketed ...
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  Fanboy Auteurs in Comics

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  Daniel Stein DFG Research Unit "Popular Seriality," John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin

  Wednesday, October 2, 2013 — 7:33 am

  mention) has perhaps been the most significant author role/performance in superhero comics at least since ...
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  Fanboy critics, too?

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  Emily Petermann University of Konstanz

  Wednesday, October 2, 2013 — 5:14 pm

  films. It seems like every introduction to the horror film begins with the author's discussion of ...
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  Dollhouse and Echo(e)s of Future Queerness

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  Roxanne Samer University of Southern California

  October 04, 2013

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  accomplice that the Dollhouse made her, among other things, “at least seven times gay.” And yet, despite ...
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  Mediated Survivialism in *Fallout 3*

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  Timothy Welsh Loyola University New Orleans

  October 09, 2013

  4 comments

  Mediated Survivialism in *Fallout 3* survivalism random encounters objectivist logic Fallout 3 Curator's Note The featured clip from Bethesda Game's Fallout 3 stages a convergence of the survivalist ethics frequently explored in apocalypse media ...

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