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  Re: "Genki Dama Saves the World": Japanese Popular Culture, Globalization, and Relief Efforts

  Gamers Heart Japan

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  Tuesday, April 26, 2011 — 9:16 pm

  etc)? Do they "heart" the DRC where (at least during the PS2 era) the coltan in their favorite ...
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  The Hidden Face of the Adult Film Industry

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  Mary Erickson University of Oregon

  May 02, 2011

  5 comments

  The Hidden Face of the Adult Film Industry piracy Labor in the Media Industries illegal downloading adult film Curator's Note How many people can you name who work in adult filmmaking? Maybe you've heard of Jenna Jameson or Ron Jeremy. After wat ...
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  Re: The Hidden Face of the Adult Film Industry

  Digital Distribution

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  Monday, May 2, 2011 — 4:15 pm

  such that below the line labor can at least find some compensation- in terms of cultural cache- for ...
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  Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  May 03, 2011

  8 comments

  Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary video games playtesting labor Curator's Note Playtesters play videogames that are unstable, unbalanced and riddled with broken code. Their labor is also unstable in that playtesters are frequently short-term contr ...
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  Re: The Hidden Face of the Adult Film Industry

  Transgressive outside, supported inside?

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  Mary Erickson University of Oregon

  Tuesday, May 3, 2011 — 9:09 pm

  the least. Still *too* transgressive, I guess.   ...
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  Digital Labor in Participatory Television

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  Adam Fish Lancaster University, Sociology

  May 05, 2011

  6 comments

  Digital Labor in Participatory Television work TV television Labor in the Media Industries labor immaterial gore fish ethnography digital current tv current culture convergence anthropology Al Gore adam fish adam Curator's Note From 2006-2009, while ...
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  Unpaid labor and cultural production

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  Jennifer Wager Essex County College

  Friday, May 6, 2011 — 2:09 pm

  Loved your post! not least because it featured my former co-worker and all around genius Mary ...
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  Re: Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary

  Paratextual limits and subcultural capital

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  Saturday, May 7, 2011 — 2:51 pm

  paratexts, which is determining where the "core" text ends and where paratext begins. Transmedia ...
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  Blurry Lines: Product Placement and Celebrity Endorsement

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  Shana Meganck Virginia Commonwealth University

  May 13, 2011

  2 comments

  them. This being the case, sad or not, don’t we at least deserve to know the difference between what our ...
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  "Do Season Finales Even Matter Anymore?" or "Season Finale, Schmeason Finale. I Don’t Even Know When It’s On!"

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  May 16, 2011

  11 comments

  forward to the season finale, but to me, at least, the experience lacks the pop it had in the old ... standard season.   In 2011, I find it difficult to keep track of shows’ beginnings and endings without the ...

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