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  Re: “Is This My New TV?”: Divides in the Digital Transition

  Another side to the "digital television divide"

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  Max Dawson Northwestern University

  Tuesday, October 6, 2009 — 3:11 am

  possibilities of digital broadcasting. When we consider the hardships that DTV is causing for stations in areas ...
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  Convert Now! Crowdsourcing DTV Outreach

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  Max Dawson Northwestern University

  October 07, 2009

  2 comments

  many aspects of the implementation of DTV as possible to private-sphere partners ranging from ...
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  Wild Thing: HDTV and the Demasculinized Male Viewer

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  Marusya Bociurkiw Ryerson University, Toronto

  October 09, 2009

  1 comment

  demasculinization I’m noticing in HDTV ads? Many of the ads I’ve been looking at seem to crystallize what Jeanne ...
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  Re: Convert Now! Crowdsourcing DTV Outreach

  Max, I'm glad to see some

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  Marusya Bociurkiw Ryerson University, Toronto

  Monday, October 12, 2009 — 11:24 pm

  Max, I'm glad to see some ideological critique of HD conversion. As far back as the early 80's, some pundits suggested that HDTV would provide television audiences with such intense viewing experiences that audience members will want to continue ...
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  Disjuncture and Difference in The Amazing Race

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  Robert Moses Peaslee Texas Tech University

  October 13, 2009

  1 comment

  understanding of the shifting “scapes” made possible in international media environments. It is an eloquent ...
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  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory

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  Erika Johnson-Lewis St. Petersburg College

  October 14, 2009

  4 comments

  "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory mediation Dollhouse pain programming blank slates Curator's Note The central premise of Dollhouse is that the human brain can be “wiped” of its original consciousness and a new cons ...
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  Genre Matters

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  andreas thatcher NONE

  October 15, 2009

  5 comments

  to sacrifice journalism standards for a wider audience. But new financing possibilities allow ...
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  Re: "Would you like a treatment?": Dollhouse, pain, and memory

  Posthuman Pinocchios, Bladerunner, and Gender

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  Chad Thomas Beck Indiana University

  Thursday, October 15, 2009 — 6:45 pm

  androids and humans who both struggle to find their humanity and with the intersections of Asian and ...
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  Re: Genre Matters

  Reception

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  Chad Thomas Beck Indiana University

  Friday, October 16, 2009 — 5:02 pm

  texts.   I’m curious how adapting the documentary to the science fiction genre altered the textual form ...
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  Jack Black, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Kid-Cult Appeal

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  October 21, 2009

  3 comments

  Jack Black, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Kid-Cult Appeal children television yo gabba gabba children's television Curator's Note One key strategy that has been common throughout the history of media targeting children is offering a dual appeal to adults ...

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