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  “I’m Here Because I’m Bored”: Getting at the Nature of Ludic Computation

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  Judd Ruggill University of Arizona

  October 30, 2007

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  “I’m Here Because I’m Bored”: Getting at the Nature of Ludic Computation computers gaming history ...
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  Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  February 28, 2008

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  MPATI from other experiments in educational television, aside from the use of the airplanes, was its ... would supplement—and possibly displace--local ETV stations. In the process, they would substitute ...
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  Re-envisioning our Possible Past(s): Alternative Histories in Contemporary Summer Blockbusters

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  Michael S. Duffy Department of Electronic Media and Film, Towson University

  June 14, 2011

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  Re-envisioning our Possible Past(s): Alternative Histories in Contemporary Summer Blockbusters ...
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  Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  February 26, 2008

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  particular fosters an opening of reading possibilities, I want to encourage more possibilities than camp ... Burgundy histories?- that deploy camp to new advantage. Or might such projects conflict with a possible ...
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  'The Past is a Foreign Country. This Is Your Passport.': Media Fragments, Digital Archives and Virtual Museums

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  Mabel Rosenheck Northwestern University

  February 29, 2012

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  but makes possible new, unexpected and productive meanings about the artifacts of the past. ...
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  Curating the City

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  Mark Tebeau Cleveland State University

  May 25, 2012

  creates the possibility for a pervasive interpretive environment, hearkening toward the Internet of ...
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  Making the Past Visible: Introduction

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  Ethan Thompson Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  March 15, 2015

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  Making the Past Visible: Introduction television making the past visible history archive Curator's Note From newly indexed collections in brick and mortar archives, to “official” online sources, to hidden or just under-funded collections, there is an ...
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  What is so comical about old choreography?

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  Mari Pajala University of Turku (Finland)

  November 09, 2007

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  What is so comical about old choreography? history globalization nostalgia music video Scandanavia Finland Armi & Danny 1970s Grease dance comedy Gregorious YMCA context Curator's Note Many of the most widely circulated clips of old Finnish telev ...