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  Re: Border Futures

  Sleep Dealer, Solidarity, Hope

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  Laura Isabel Serna University of Southern California

  Tuesday, February 17, 2015 — 3:09 am

  at least open-ended. I'll be curious to see how this graphic novel handles issues of agency and ...
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  Push or Pull? Weeds Crosses the Border

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  David R. Coon University of Washington Tacoma

  February 18, 2015

  U.S. The fourth season begins with Nancy moving her family to a beach community near the U.S.-Mexico ...
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  On Watching and Seeing: The Limits of Cell Phone Evidence

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  Antar Tichavakunda University of Southern California

  March 02, 2015

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  On Watching and Seeing: The Limits of Cell Phone Evidence Racial Stereotypes Cellphone Witness Week blackness Curator's Note In a press conference following a police shooting a reporter asked a police captain, “Are you basically saying this guy was t ...
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  Re: On Watching and Seeing: The Limits of Cell Phone Evidence

  Spectacular bodies/spectacular images

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  Benedict stork Seattle University

  Tuesday, March 3, 2015 — 9:49 pm

  Darren Wilson, as well as in relation to Eric Garner as a giant, there is an association, at least for ...
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  Cellphone Footage as Witness and Instrument for Vigilante Justice

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  Fatma Matin Khan University of Delhi

  March 04, 2015

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  Cellphone Footage as Witness and Instrument for Vigilante Justice viral videos vigilantism social media sexual harassment justice India Cellphone Witness Week Curator's Note I’ve chosen to focus on two recent cases in India which highlight how cellph ...
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  Politics In Excess of Evidence

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  Benedict stork Seattle University

  March 06, 2015

  Curator's Note A recent This American Life Episode ("How Cops See It, pt.2", 2/13/2015) begins ...
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  Re: Cellphone Footage as Witness and Instrument for Vigilante Justice

  Witness or intervention

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  Benedict stork Seattle University

  Friday, March 6, 2015 — 5:40 pm

  least, is that these exchanges suspend the drive to look for proof in the images--these are not evidence ...
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  Lessons Learned from Sony’s handling of The Interview, Theaters, and VOD

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  Jennifer Porst University of North Texas

  March 12, 2015

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  Lessons Learned from Sony’s handling of The Interview, Theaters, and VOD Video-on-Demand Theaters The Interview Sony hack Disruption Curator's Note During moments of disruption in the media industries, one force that prevents dominant media companies ...
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  Re: Lessons Learned from Sony’s handling of The Interview, Theaters, and VOD

  The Tron Effect

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  Philip Scepanski Vassar College

  Thursday, March 12, 2015 — 4:21 pm

  film to begin with? Basically, do they think the problem is exclusively or even primarily with this ...
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  We So Seldom Look on Love in Porn

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  Karly-Lynne Scott Northwestern University

  March 31, 2015

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  We So Seldom Look on Love in Porn sex pornography love Curator's Note “Every time I shoot a sex scene, I fall a little bit in love.” This sentiment from porn star Asa Akira’s autobiography, Insatiable: Porn—A Love Story, jarringly contradicts the rel ...

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