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  Fall Variations on Nostalgia

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  Sharon Marie Ross TV Department, Columbia College

  September 20, 2011

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  Angels). But even aside from these, almost half of new shows are fitting into 1 of 3 types of nostalgia: ... I’m a sucker for seeing actors return to TV. Yes, I will largely tune into X Factor to see Paula and ...
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  Who Wants to be an Indian? Re-imagining Reality with Global TV Formats

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  Lauhona Ganguly The New School

  November 17, 2011

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  ten million rupees and “crorepati” is the person who owns such a spectacular sum of money. Aside from ... conditions that favor such reproductions and the mediations that make it possible. KBC, the Hindi title of ...
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  Sisters are doing it for themselves

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  Robert Alan Brookey Northern Illinois University

  January 10, 2011

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  possibility of a GWBG sequel, and that I could help make the sequel happen. The project was listed on ... Neutrality, and the possibility of a two-tiered Internet, DIY and fan participation may have a bleak future. ... But before the conglomerates have a chance to spoil everything, I’m going to play. In an update on ...
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  erotics and repression in stranger chat sites

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  David J. Phillips U. Toronto, Faculty of Information

  February 18, 2011

  erotics chatroulette Curator's Note I’m taken with the erotics of “random stranger” websites – omegle ... McGrath, in “Loving Big Brother,” writes about the erotic possibilities of these new topographies, of the ...
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  'Technology is a Glittering Lure'- Audiences in the Convergence Era

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  Darcey West Morris Georgia State University

  October 17, 2011

  action against what they argue is a violation of consumer trust. And I’m sure Don Draper would not want ... activities as fast as new technologies are developed that alter the possibilities for them. Journalists’ role ...
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  "I'm Not a Racist, I'm Just Really Invested in Continuity": Casting Aside Donald Glover as Spider-Man

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  August 03, 2011

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  "I'm Not a Racist, I'm Just Really Invested in Continuity": Casting Aside ...
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  More Than One Shade Of RED

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  Cully Hamner DC Comics/DC Entertainment

  August 02, 2011

  8 comments

  the current Hollywood-favored parlance is “graphic novel,” but I guess I’m old-fashioned that way—was ...
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  "Do Season Finales Even Matter Anymore?" or "Season Finale, Schmeason Finale. I Don’t Even Know When It’s On!"

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  May 16, 2011

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  on an accidentally viewed “I’m going to steal that baby right out of Amy Brenneman’s womb” season ...
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  Free and Freer: WikiLeaks and ViCKi LEEKX

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  Ivan Kreilkamp Indiana University

  February 11, 2011

  1 comment

  swimming in an insurgent stream of privacy-unprotected data. “I’m not talking about getting it for free,” ... violent rounding-up of light-skinned red-heads into prison camps; “I’m talking about making it freer.” ...
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  Say What, Sorkin?

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  Todd Sodano St. John Fisher College

  June 27, 2011

  6 comments

  uttering, “I’m sorry?” “Hmmm?” “Excuse me?” “What?” – so the audience can hear again an important piece of ... “Explain it to me like I’m a four-year-old …” or “Are you trying to tell me that …”); four, he draws ...

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