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  Food Authorities: The Burger Foundation and the Sources of Expertise

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  November 29, 2013

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  Food Authorities: The Burger Foundation and the Sources of Expertise art authority expertise food Michelle Ellsworth Curator's Note As eaters, we’re bombarded by information about food: what’s good for us, what’s not, what’s the right amount, what’s ...
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  Marshall McLuhan and Harold Adams Innis Watching Netflix

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  December 02, 2013

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  theorists beyond the grave. Today, I’m imagining him in conversation with Harold Adams Innis, that other ...
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  Netflix and Rethinking Ritualized Consumption of Audiovisual Content

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  Ariane Lebot Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

  December 03, 2013

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  Netflix and Rethinking Ritualized Consumption of Audiovisual Content spectatorship Netflix binge-watching Curator's Note This promotional clip for IFC’s Portlandia testifies to the acknowledgment of binge-watching as a widespread practice, as its com ...
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  Re: Netflix and Rethinking Ritualized Consumption of Audiovisual Content

  Good clip and post

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Wednesday, December 4, 2013 — 12:24 am

  watching the episodes together, offer a possible counter to my assertion that it hurts interpersonal ... increasingly little regard for others. Of course, it's also possible to argue that having more programs at ...
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  Querying the Queue

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  Lindsay Bosch Video Data Bank

  December 04, 2013

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  possibility of meaning is liberated from contingencies of use. “Clearly archives are not neutral,” Sekula ...
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  The Big Data TV: Data Analytics, Algorithms, and Netflix’s Original Programming

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  Hye Jin Lee University of Iowa

  December 05, 2013

  1 comment

  us new possibilities of storytelling in the era of big data by proving a harmonious blend of ...
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  Re: The Big Data TV: Data Analytics, Algorithms, and Netflix’s Original Programming

  Same old formula, more data

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Friday, December 6, 2013 — 1:12 am

  more, the commercial model of Netflix--a subscription rather than pay-per-view model--makes it possible ...
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  The Price of Politics

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  December 09, 2013

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  endurance to animate new physiological possibilities through a body stressed from a greater complexity of ... is to hold both possibilities in a productive tension. The pain and sacrifice of training is vicious, ...
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  Re: The Price of Politics

  Waiting

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  Kalling Heck University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Tuesday, December 10, 2013 — 11:29 pm

  but also for the efforts of totalitarianism. This makes me wonder: what conditions the possibilities ...
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  Re: The Price of Politics

  Question of Orientation

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  Wednesday, December 11, 2013 — 2:52 am

  mean to suggest athletics as a means to political possibility directly, simply that sport is most often ... conceptions of possibility like these athletes have oriented themselves to winning Olympic gold through their ... training, which opens that goal as a possibility in this clip. ...

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