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  The Digital Human Document

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  Dan Leopard St. Mary’s College of California

  March 02, 2009

  6 comments

  The Digital Human Document Visible Human Project new media documentary Curator's Note What interests me about the Visible Human Project (represented by the videos at left) is how it foreshadows changes in the notion of the “human” as documentary evid ...
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  Re: Viral Shock and Spectacle in the Policing of Borders: The Youtube Taser Death of Robert Dziekanski

  The Terminal (revisited)

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  J. Nicholson www.wlu.ca/arts/cs

  Thursday, February 26, 2009 — 5:18 pm

  trouble for airport security before finding a way out. Despite that the film is a comedy, it’s possible to ...
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  Re: Masking the Difficulties of the Superhero Film Adaptation

  RE: MASK AS CHARACTER

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  Greg M. Smith Georgia State University

  Tuesday, February 24, 2009 — 3:28 pm

  technologized visual equivalent of Matt Murdock's super-hearing (which also possibly helps to distract us ... inventive Iron Man solution).  And it's certainly possible that a filmmaker can USE these difficulties ...
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  Viral Shock and Spectacle in the Policing of Borders: The Youtube Taser Death of Robert Dziekanski

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  Tamara Vukov McGill University

  February 24, 2009

  1 comment

  Viral Shock and Spectacle in the Policing of Borders: The Youtube Taser Death of Robert Dziekanski Curator's Note It may seem something of a strange choice to write an In Media Res commentary on a Youtube video that I personally find difficult to wat ...
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  Masking the Difficulties of the Superhero Film Adaptation

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  Greg M. Smith Georgia State University

  February 23, 2009

  4 comments

  Masking the Difficulties of the Superhero Film Adaptation Spiderman mask Iron Man costume comic books adaptation Curator's Note It’s not surprising that Hollywood has turned to adapting comic book superhero stories.  It’s rather more surprising that ...
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  Re: From ‘Heroes’ to ‘Zeroes’: Producing Fan Vids without Fans

  The audience has become redundant

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  Max Dawson Indiana University

  Saturday, February 21, 2009 — 12:15 am

  or-user generated content and/or the processes that produce them. The term I’m looking for would be the ...
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  Re: From ‘Heroes’ to ‘Zeroes’: Producing Fan Vids without Fans

  Blurring Boundaries

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  Elizabeth Evans University of Nottingham

  Friday, February 20, 2009 — 2:55 pm

  I’m sure fans will inevitably become (and possibly already are) savvy about what is going on. Do they ... established boundaries. I realise I’m not the first to say this but it’s something that has become apparent in ...
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  From ‘Heroes’ to ‘Zeroes’: Producing Fan Vids without Fans

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  February 20, 2009

  4 comments

  From ‘Heroes’ to ‘Zeroes’: Producing Fan Vids without Fans fan videos Battlestar Galactica Heroes viral marketing Brandom Curator's Note Increasingly, fans are being courted by media owners as important participants in viral marketing campaigns desig ...
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  Re: Multiplatform Fame

  Digg, Web2.0, and Conspicuous (Information) Consumption

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  Max Dawson Indiana University

  Friday, February 20, 2009 — 2:04 am

  James – I’m really intrigued by this notion that achieving Internet fame is form of technological ...
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  Re: Brought to You With Limited Commercial Interruption: The temporalities of online TV

  Remote Free, But Not Free of Commercials...

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  Max Dawson Indiana University

  Friday, February 20, 2009 — 1:31 am

  I’m curious as to whether you’ve tested out this hypothesis on FOX’s “remote free” presentations of ... of stunts do present interesting possibilities for television storytellers, and, additionally, are ...

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