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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV

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  Madhavi Mallapragada University of Texas at Austin

  April 05, 2007

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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV youth culture transnational South Asian promo MTV India immigration Desi Curator's Note In this video titled, "You are not an Indian," a young male addresses viewers who like him are neither just American ...
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  Subway Subtext: Jack in Japan

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  Miranda Banks Loyola Marymount University

  April 03, 2007

  16 comments

  Subway Subtext: Jack in Japan Lost in Translation Kiefer Sutherland Japan globalization celebrity endorsement advertisement 24 Curator's Note The subway hurtles through the tunnel, paralleling Jack Bauer’s dogged, singular intention. No one—not even ...
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  Re: Steel Magnolia: Nancy Grace and the Epistemology of Place

  I'm fascinated by the

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Friday, March 30, 2007 — 7:30 pm

  I'm fascinated by the gendered ways in which the personal (tragedy and experience) legitimates Grace's political discourse and branding, providing "intimacy" and "vulnerability" (stereotypically coded as feminine) that both o ...
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  The Many Lessons of “Spiders on Drugs”

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  Brian L. Ott Colorado State University

  March 27, 2007

  first thing that struck me about it, aside from the fact that it's ridiculously funny, is that ...
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  Re: The Signal Through the Noise: Hillary Clinton “1984″ Video Mashup

  As I told my students, the

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  Kathleen Fitzpatrick Michigan State University

  Sunday, March 25, 2007 — 3:56 pm

  user interface and made, for instance, desktop publishing possible. The iPod, much as I adore mine, has ...
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  The Signal Through the Noise: Hillary Clinton “1984″ Video Mashup

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  Richard Edwards Ball State University

  March 24, 2007

  2 comments

  The Signal Through the Noise: Hillary Clinton “1984″ Video Mashup viral videos political ads parody Negativeland mashup marketing Mark Dery Mac-PC Hillary Clinton culture jamming alternative media Ad Busters 1984 Curator's Note This widely circulatin ...
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  41 Shots

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  Dan Leopard St. Mary’s College of California

  March 15, 2007

  Ernest Larsen suggests that the possibilities of television as a cultural form are hardly exhausted by ...
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  Re: The Best of the Worst of Star Search

  Like Vicki, I'm not sure

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Monday, March 5, 2007 — 6:24 am

  Like Vicki, I'm not sure where Star Search comes into this. But a similarly brilliant mashup, of one of Bush's State of the Union by Brit comic mastermind Chris Morris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FSpQLsUmVQ ...
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  Previously on Buffy

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  Alan McKee Queensland University of Technology

  February 23, 2007

  4 comments

  a solipsistic ‘anything goes’ attitude. I’m not telling people that this is the correct interpretation of this ... text; I’m asking if anybody thinks the same way, or finds this a useful approach. ...
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  Re: So U Think U Can Dance?

  For a better quality of this

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  Sharon Shahaf Georgia State University

  Thursday, February 22, 2007 — 5:19 pm

  with Explorer browser (and possibly only with PC computers) and...it's in Hebrew. But fear not- To ...

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