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  Surveying Wired Landscapes: Early Telephone Directories & Mobile Perception

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  Emily Goodmann Northwestern University

  February 16, 2010

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  Surveying Wired Landscapes: Early Telephone Directories & Mobile Perception telephone directory telephone book telephone mobility Curator's Note Mobility is a complex term not easily untangled from its association with contemporary communication ...
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  Myth, Ritual, and People Who Love Star Trek

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  Curtis Webster Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

  September 06, 2010

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  Myth, Ritual, and People Who Love Star Trek Star Trek ritual myth Curator's Note What is it about Star Trek? Why are Trek fans so obsessive about the universe that Roddenberry built? The popular media would have you believe that Trek fans are a cultu ...
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  Summer Binging: What will it make you do?

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  Christine Becker University of Notre Dame

  July 16, 2010

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  Summer Binging: What will it make you do? television schedule spectatorship network television DVD cable television Curator's Note This delicious promo offers much to deconstruct (woe be upon the forever over-identifying female spectator), but to tie ...
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  A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR

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  Jennifer Proctor University of Michigan-Dearborn

  August 10, 2010

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  A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR disability avatar ableism Curator's Note "When I was lying in the V.A. hospital with a big hole blown through the middle of my life, I started having these dreams of flying. I was free. ...
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  Too Big to Fail?

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  Janice Peck Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder

  February 09, 2010

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  Too Big to Fail? TV talk shows Oprah Winfrey Show Oprah Winfrey Network Oprah Quits Curator's Note In this video montage, Oprah Winfrey’s announcement that she will end her talk show in September 2011 and launch her new network in January that same y ...
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  Professional Lives

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  March 12, 2010

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  Professional Lives procedural drama police labor ideology feminism CSI crime Curator's Note   Middle-class adulthood is the central procedure represented in procedural drama. TV cops, lawyers, and doctors aren't only shown doing their jobs; they ...
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  Dan Smoot, Arid Pundit

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  Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

  June 10, 2010

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  Dan Smoot, Arid Pundit John Birch Society extremism cold war, Curator's Note   Much of the right-wing radio and TV of the cold war years was simply designed to be boring. The right-winger shown here, Dan Smoot, seemed willfully predisposed not to ent ...
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  Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids Fit into Today’s Video Game Landscape?

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  August 31, 2010

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  Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids Fit into Today’s Video Game Landscape? video games press conferences demographics Curator's Note At this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Microsoft opened their press event by showing off ...
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  Hot In Cleveland: Betty Does Disney

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  Jaime Weinman Maclean's magazine

  July 13, 2010

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  Hot In Cleveland: Betty Does Disney sitcom Hot In Cleveland Disney Curator's Note One of the most successful shows of the summer is Hot in Cleveland, the first original sitcom produced by TV Land, which has just been renewed for 20 more episodes. Apa ...
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  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  December 08, 2010

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  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine simulation postmodernism gaming farmville Facebook Curator's Note 57.6 million Facebook users play FarmVille. Granted, not all of them are people.  Two are my cats, Noisy and Pilot Squeaky. In FarmVille, it helps ...

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