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  Re: Letting Go of Reality

  Transmedia

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  Brad King Ball State University

  Wednesday, December 8, 2010 — 6:42 pm

  made up. All that aside (because I now feel like The Comic Book Guy), I have to say the blending of ...
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  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  December 08, 2010

  7 comments

  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine simulation postmodernism gaming farmville Facebook Curator's Note 57.6 million Facebook users play FarmVille. Granted, not all of them are people.  Two are my cats, Noisy and Pilot Squeaky. In FarmVille, it helps ...
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  Re: The Flourish

  re: rules

  By

  Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

  Tuesday, December 7, 2010 — 6:49 am

  these communities work, let alone being able to think meaningfully on the possibility of doing violence ...
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  Letting Go of Reality

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  David Clayman Bethesda Softworks

  December 07, 2010

  1 comment

  this take an important step in tossing aside a grounded setting for pure visual entertainment, ...
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  The Flourish

  By

  Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

  December 06, 2010

  4 comments

  The Flourish street fighter procedural rhetoric e-sports Curator's Note Debates rage about the social and political functions of videogames. Videogames allow us to enter the bodies and minds of virtual others, explore worlds that exist only in the im ...
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  Performance and Play: Mental Disability and the Class Character of Tarnation

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  Rachel Thibault University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  December 01, 2010

  2 comments

  one that makes Tarnation possible in the first place. The film portrays mental illness not as obstacle ...
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  Diane Rehm and the Sound of Disability

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  Bill Kirkpatrick Denison University

  November 30, 2010

  low-pitched voice remains an undervalued national treasure, but aside from the golden baritone of the typical ...
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  A Disabling Environment

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  Katie Ellis Murdoch University

  November 29, 2010

  2 comments

  stuck in the rain and late for his job interview. When he finally arrives he can not possibly be ... on his part. Both Finklestein’s thought experiment and the Talk! films show that it is possible to ... new possibilities for media representation. ...
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  Re: Transmedia Recipes? Consuming Butterbeer, Pumpkin Juice and Everyflavor Beans

  Mmmm... Tastes official

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  Vincent Gonzalez UNC - Chapel Hill

  Thursday, November 18, 2010 — 4:54 pm

  does some violence in restricting imaginative possibilities, we should take care not to let our ...
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  Re: Transmedia Recipes? Consuming Butterbeer, Pumpkin Juice and Everyflavor Beans

  Thank you for you comment,

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  Lisa Schmidt Bishop's University

  Thursday, November 18, 2010 — 2:16 pm

  recipes.  I agree with you about the possibility for unlicensed and licensed creativity...and I also tend to ...

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