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  Quibi: Mobile Streaming and Quick Entertainment

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  Morgan Durfee Bowling Green State University

  May 05, 2020

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  Quibi capitalizes on our supposedly decreasing attention span. This service has the possibility to ... than viewing television, I’m still not sold on the idea that mobile streaming is the future.  Netflix ...
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  The Jason Bateman Algorithm: Horror in the Age of Behavioral Surplus

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  Hans Staats Cedars Academy

  April 03, 2020

   (Fox, 2003–2006; Netflix, 2013–present),  Ozark  (Netflix, 2017–present), and  The Outsider  (HBO, ... 2020). In the case of  Ozark and  The Outsider  in particular, Bateman has responded to the morally ... horror,  The Outsider, based on the 2018 horror novel by Stephen King, is developed by Richard Price, ...
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  Netflix in Real Life

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  Mattias Frey University of Kent

  February 11, 2020

  incredulously. He demurs: “No, I’m just trying to wind down, like an Action or a Comedy.” The clerk follows him ...
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  Black Music Videos and the Popular to Come

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  Alessandra Raengo Georgia State University

  Lauren McLeod Cramer University of Toronto

  April 27, 2020

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  her In Focus piece on  Rebirth, Nkiru’s open archive further extends the possible space for  black ...
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  The Tipping Point of Kate Marsh: An Imbalance of Power in "Life is Strange" (2015)

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  Edward Tristram Bath Spa University

  May 14, 2020

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  written on Kate's whiteboard (outside her dorm room). The collective player-base is almost perfectly ... scenario: "the outsider" (Salmivalli, Christina & Voeten, Rinus 2004). With your powerful ... or “outsider”, have led the player to this moment and the full extent of the victim’s suffering is apparent. The ...
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  And Thats Whats We Appreciates About Letterkenny

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  weswise Fresno State University

  May 21, 2020

  but if someone from the outsides comes a knockin’…”- Squirrelly Dan (Letterkenny)   Letterkenny is ... farther north in even more rural environs and who are inferred to be uncivilized. Later still, the outside ... people who otherwise bicker and fight band together in a sense of community to defend against an outside ...
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  Media Prophylaxis: Reality TV in the Time of COVID-19

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  David Bering-Porter Eugene Lang College, The New School

  April 10, 2020

  allowed outside under the watchful eye of a syndic and armed guards to enforce the quarantine. The whole ... exists, literally just outside The Circle, whose labor goes largely unacknowledged by a system that ...
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  Prelude to a Remix: Damon Lindelof’s Instagram Letter to Watchmen’s Wary Audience

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  Sarah Riddick Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  September 16, 2020

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  again prioritizes audience: “I’m a true fan, too. And I’m not the only one” (4). The two sentences stand ...
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  Jessica Krug’s “Drifting” Accent

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  Pooja Rangan Amherst College

  October 27, 2020

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  “being an Afro Borinqueña born and raised in the Bx I’m thoroughly offended that anyone believed this ...
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  Rearticulating Star Texts Through Japanese Televisual Paratexts: Snow Man and SixTONES on Arashi ni shiyagare

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  Rosaley Gai Stanford University

  Lilian Higashikata The University of British Columbia

  August 31, 2020

  outside the boundaries of the show, in the everyday realities of viewers’ and non-viewers’ lives” (Gray ... learning about them, possibly for the first time. For fans of SixTONES and Snow Man, the program served to ...

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