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  Re: Geek Love: Technical Expertise as a Source of Computer Game Pleasure

  As a gamer, and in response

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  Wednesday, July 18, 2007 — 7:26 pm

  the game rarely have a major effect on the pre-designed narrative structure, at least for the ... I think there is at least a practical correlation. This piece took a great amount of dedication, not to ...
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  Virtual Funeral Crashing

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  Dave Parry University of Texas at Dallas

  July 20, 2007

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  outnumbered it was a one sided battle to say the least. This event generated increasingly angry discussion on ...
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  Throwing Out the Welcome Mat: Guests and Victims on Television Satire

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  July 23, 2007

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  Throwing Out the Welcome Mat: Guests and Victims on Television Satire Tony Blair The Simpsons satire public figures politics journalism Brasseye animation Ali G Curator's Note Two strategies for involving public figures. The Simpsons offers public fi ...
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  Re: Throwing Out the Welcome Mat: Guests and Victims on Television Satire

  Interesting question,

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Monday, July 23, 2007 — 7:59 pm

  for re-branding political figures as "cool" or able to take a joke (at least on a personal ...
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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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  Apology to Americans: The Borders of Television Satire

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  Serra Tinic University of Alberta

  July 25, 2007

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  powerful ‘other.’ Does the ‘political’ begin and end with the subversive wink and giggle — particularly ...
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  Of Niggas and Citizens: Mobilizing Strategies on The Boondocks and the Rhetoric of Blame

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  July 27, 2007

  3 comments

  pushed to the periphery. On television, satire rarely begins at the margins and takes a critical look at ...
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  Re: Apology to Americans: The Borders of Television Satire

  Jonathan and Avi -- you both

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  Serra Tinic University of Alberta

  Friday, July 27, 2007 — 10:16 pm

  least minimal. But is this also a feature of satire in general (i.e. other national contexts)? ...
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  Re: Of Niggas and Citizens: Mobilizing Strategies on The Boondocks and the Rhetoric of Blame

  From Vancouver, BC

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Sunday, July 29, 2007 — 1:44 am

  or at least to a show that's had many cracks at the whip over many years (on this, though, see ... a trajectory that begins individual, personal, and specific but that aims towards institutional analyses and ...
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  “It’s Our Job to Know Stuff”: The Epistemology of CSI

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  Kathleen Fitzpatrick Michigan State University

  July 30, 2007

  6 comments

  CSI computer simulation Curator's Note This compilation of brief clips begins with a paradigmatic ...

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