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  Pictures of Self-Portraits: Eva and Franco Mattes' Avatar Portraits

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  Zara Dinnen University of Birmingham

  May 01, 2012

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  Pictures of Self-Portraits: Eva and Franco Mattes' Avatar Portraits Second Life Eva and Franco Mattes Digital Portraits Digital Media and the Autobiographical Impulse avatars Avatar Portraits Curator's Note In 2006 the artists Eva and Franco Mat ...
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  Re: Am I Ugly?: Female Beauty, Digital Media, and the True Me

  pretty or ugly? ugly or pretty?

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  Lyndsey Beutin University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication

  Tuesday, May 1, 2012 — 7:13 pm

  like she wanted strangers to reinforce her certainty that she was ugly. Despite beginning with ...
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  Taking Up Montaigne: The Essay in the Digital Age

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  May 02, 2012

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  Taking Up Montaigne: The Essay in the Digital Age new media Montaigne essay electronic literature Digital Media and the Autobiographical Impulse Curator's Note “Que sçay-je?” Montaigne famously asks in 1580.  “What do I know?”  Montaigne's quest ...
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  Re: Pictures of Self-Portraits: Eva and Franco Mattes' Avatar Portraits

  Fashion

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  Zara Dinnen University of Birmingham

  Wednesday, May 2, 2012 — 7:00 pm

  true. In that sense (the photoshop’d kind) it also speaks to these portraits as being, at least in part, ...
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  Re: Taking Up Montaigne: The Essay in the Digital Age

  Not knowing is knowing

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  Lyndsey Beutin University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication

  Thursday, May 3, 2012 — 7:55 pm

  Fascinating, Eric! What do you make of the deep breath and exhale that begin this piece? It ... begins by recounting how he obtained his images, he offers us his evidence, and now he attempts to ... myself", made me very uncomfortable. Not least of all because it seems to undermine his entire project, ...
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  An Autobiography of an Autobiographic Medium

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  Daniel C. Faltesek Oregon State University

  May 04, 2012

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  form S-1, the document used to begin an inital public offering and the object of this curation. In ...
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  The Avengers and the Evolution of the Multi-Film Franchise

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  Jim Mroczkowski iFanboy.com

  May 07, 2012

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  least four other franchises. It is simultaneously the first film in a series and the sequel to five ... alters, and to some extent potentially damages, each individual film's ability to legitimately begin ...
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  Re: The Avengers and the Evolution of the Multi-Film Franchise

  The Infinite Franchise

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  Roger Whitson Washington State University

  Monday, May 7, 2012 — 10:13 am

  couldn't...or at least didn't.    ...
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  I have an Army/We have a Hulk: Thinking Politics in The Avengers

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  john a. sweeney University of Hawaii at Manoa, Dept. of Political Science

  May 09, 2012

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  I have an Army/We have a Hulk: Thinking Politics in The Avengers The Avengers Ranciere politics Late Capitalism Hulk Curator's Note Disclaimer: I like the Hulk. I think my affinity stems from viewing him as a monster rather than a hero. As an ambiguo ...
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  Re: The Avengers and the Evolution of the Multi-Film Franchise

  Old-school hierarchies creeping in?

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  Bob Rehak Swarthmore College

  Wednesday, May 9, 2012 — 1:57 pm

  notions of legitimate vs. illegitimate storycraft are increasingly obsolete-- or at least very much in the ...

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