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  The Art of Seduction: Film Spectatorship in the Age of the Cell Phone

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  Sarah Sinwell University of Utah

  December 13, 2010

  5 comments

  The Art of Seduction: Film Spectatorship in the Age of the Cell Phone Sundance film spectatorship cell phones Curator's Note The video clip contains nudity. It is most likely not safe for work.    Coproduced by both the Sundance Channel and the Natio ...
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  Re: FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

  I'm on your farm, stealing your vegetables

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  Alenda Chang University of California, Berkeley

  Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 10:55 pm

  Ted: thanks for bringing up FarmVille! a) I've been researching farm games for the past few months, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who's been toiling away on my virtual farm in the name of science. And b) I love the tree labyrinth. ...
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  Re: FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

  Re: Cooperative Farmvill-ing

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 12:25 am

  exploits the full expressive possibilities of social media, as games like Little Big Planet do. It's ...
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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

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  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

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  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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