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  Re: The Many Texts of Textless Paratexts

  unwittingly spawned?

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  Taylor Nygaard University of Denver

  Tuesday, March 18, 2014 — 5:12 pm

  these types of trailers as becoming a deliberate tool for pitching or selling a possible franchise, ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Many Texts of Textless Paratexts

  UNWITTING VS. "WITTING" TRAILERS

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  Johannes Mahlknecht University of Innsbruck, Austria

  Wednesday, March 19, 2014 — 2:26 pm

  the film versions of "Battleship" and "Monopoly" (and possibly other such ...
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  Black Twitter- Contagious Hashtags

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  Sanjay Sharma Brunel University

  March 27, 2014

  such as Facebook et al don’t exhibit the technological affordances that can make possible ‘Black ... While Twitter is a vast social network it exhibits a ‘small world’ phenomenon: the possibility of ... production of contagious social connections. Black Twitter multiplies the possibilities of being raced ...
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  #ABCReports and Black Twitter

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  March 28, 2014

  pervasiveness, and mutlivocality of Black Twitter. Using new digital tools it is possible to map and time the ...
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  "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

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  April Cobos Old Dominion University

  March 31, 2014

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  "Rape Culture" and the Social Media social media sexual assault Circulating pain Curator's Note This is a large portion of the video made by a friend of one of the convicted men in the Steubenville rape case after he received photographs of ...
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  Re: "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

  Fascinating post

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  Tanya Horeck Anglia Ruskin University

  Monday, March 31, 2014 — 6:29 pm

  which the circulation of such images opens up the possibility for resistant voices. In her article on ...
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  Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror

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  Johnny Walker Northumbria University

  April 01, 2014

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  Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror Jason Impey Circulating pain amateur horror Curator's Note In recent years, film and media studies has witnessed growing interest in the areas of “informal” film distribution ...
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  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

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  Tanya Horeck & Tina Kendall Anglia Ruskin University

  April 02, 2014

  13 comments

  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos social media Circulating pain affect Curator's Note NekNomination videos – a social media drinking game which involves (mainly) young men drinking potentially lethal combinations of alcohol and then is ...
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  Re: Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror

  Thanks Tanya. I’m also

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  Johnny Walker Northumbria University

  Wednesday, April 2, 2014 — 9:35 am

  Thanks Tanya. I'm also particularly interested in the performativity of the clip which, to my mind, is more parodic than anything. Impey is more than aware of the niche audience he is playing to, which makes his position as a "celebrity" in ...
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  Re: "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

  considering resistance in a media "torrent"...

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  Matthew Ferrari University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  Wednesday, April 2, 2014 — 2:57 pm

  evokes for me the challenges of not only creating the possibilities for resistant voices, but whether ...

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