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  Re: Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone

  Not just private, or personal, but also interpersonal

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  Tyler Bickford Columbia University

  Wednesday, February 17, 2010 — 3:48 pm

  possibilities for shared listening. So the "personal" or "private" is often really ...
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  Re: Why “Where” Matters: Mobile Media and Urban Experience

  perpetual contact

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  Yi-Fan Chen Old Dominion University

  Thursday, February 18, 2010 — 2:45 am

  “where I am” and “what I am doing” tweets with instant messaging (IM) “away message.”  Baron et al. found ... that the away message in IM enables users to establish a continuing sense of social “presence.”  ...
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  Craft Cultures Online- Can they be "global"?

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  Radhika Gajjala Bowling Green State University

  February 23, 2010

  that there are more globally nuanced and multiple intersections possibles. This present piece was ... liberating potential of craftivism made possible in these networks? Thus while on the one hand these networks ...
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  Real Men Wear Heels

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  Madison Moore Yale University

  February 23, 2010

  it's about what's next, what's coming. Possibility, in other words. Rad shows that it’s ... possible for men to wear heels, and not only that it's possible, but it should in fact be ...
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  On Tuning In Next Week

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  Anne Moore Tufts University

  February 26, 2010

  (Shark men! Torture pit!) that might not be possible in a more cohesive ongoing narrative. ...
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  Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

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  Peter Alilunas University of Oregon

  March 01, 2010

  8 comments

  Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds masculinity advertising Super Bowl Curator's Note As someone who studies mediated depictions of male masculinity, I find that the Super Bowl represents the Holy Grail of annual research opportunities.   Whi ...
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  Re: Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

  Keeping Our Bases--and Asses--Covered

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Tuesday, March 2, 2010 — 1:30 am

  masculinity advertisement  (for beer, appropriately), and on the theme of this week’s IMR, I’m left wondering: ... in the implausibility of its escape fantasy. But at the same time, I’m not quite sure how body wash ... and a shiny new phallus sportscar could possibly be enough compensation for the trials and ...
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  Back to Nurture: Bear Bodies and The Tactile Tactics of Queer Masculinity

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 02, 2010

  5 comments

  by the restraints of a culture which, for possibly the first time, was coded as feminine. Through ... gentle, tender, and nurturing possibilities for male-male contact. This archive stands in stark contrast ...
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  The girls have caught up to the boys

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  Robert Gehl George Mason University

  March 03, 2010

  5 comments

  The girls have caught up to the boys voyeurism sexuality psychology masculinity girls and violence Curator's Note /*-->*/ To be fair to Dr. Hartstein, I don't really know how to take her analysis that “the girls are catching up to the boys.” ...
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  Re: The girls have caught up to the boys

  What a find, Robert! Not only

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Thursday, March 4, 2010 — 1:26 am

  "advancement" possible, it also regurgitates, almost flawlessly, the predictable rhetoric of moral panic ... platter—albeit with the requisite, tasteful facial blurring, of course. Fortuitously, I’m finishing up a unit on ...

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