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  Gaming on the Spectrum: Autism and Xbox Live

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  April 04, 2011

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  Gaming on the Spectrum: Autism and Xbox Live video games Media Literacy autism Curator's Note  In January, a  local news story  about an eleven-year-old autistic boy's punishment on the  Xbox Live  gaming service caused an internet uproar. The i ...
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  Are Online Channels the Future of Television for Teens?

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  Jennifer Porst University of North Texas

  November 28, 2012

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  Are Online Channels the Future of Television for Teens? teen television Pubertina online internet Curator's Note To consider teens and television today, we have to look online to the channels that are popping up to target teen audiences. Recently, te ...
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  Digital Cinephilia: Terminal Velocity

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  Brian Wall Binghamton University

  December 10, 2012

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  Digital Cinephilia: Terminal Velocity Serene Velocity Ernie Gehr digital cinephilia Curator's Note I work at Binghamton University, and my peregrinations often bring me through the hallway where Ernie Gehr shot Serene Velocity (1970). My passage thro ...
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  Scandalous Conspiracies: Making Sense of Popular Scandal Through Conspiracy

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  Jason Derby Georgia State University

  April 08, 2013

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  Scandalous Conspiracies: Making Sense of Popular Scandal Through Conspiracy scandal music Conspiracy Theories conspiracy Curator's Note After a night of drinking and drug use intermixed with the music of heavy metal band Judas Priest, James Vance and ...
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  Re: “Who's Your Mr. and Mrs. Grey?”: Unpacking Casting Speculations in Fifty Shades of Grey

  I’m not sure I’m convinced

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  Conseula Francis College of Charleston

  Sunday, September 30, 2012 — 9:00 pm

  I'm not sure I'm convinced that the folks making fanvids/trailers and posts speculating on the casting of 50 Shades (or of any adaptation) are either naive or ignorant.  Given the amount of information now available to the general public about t ...
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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games

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  Kishonna Gray Eastern Kentucky University

  November 12, 2014

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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games whiteness video games racism blackness Curator's Note The purpose of this discussion is to examine how the normalization of Whiteness and masculinity within video games leads ...
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  Bollywood Brokeback Bromance: India's First Onscreen Gay Kiss?

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  June 21, 2010

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  a non-issue, even as it deploys the figure of lesbian love, possibly to establish a vaguely “feminist” ...
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  Reassurance, fearmongering or cautionary tales: what television teaches young women about motherhood

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  Rebecca Feasey Bath Spa University

  September 16, 2019

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  possibility of unplanned single motherhood. If one considers the reality of age-related infertility, this ...
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  My Name, My Age, My Favourite Colour…

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  Edward Tristram Bath Spa University

  October 02, 2020

  they put down a finger. The aim is to end the challenge with as few fingers remaining as possible. This ...
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  Behind the intersected fears

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  kamil University of Bialystok

  November 16, 2020

  possible interpretation of this scene is that every movie has been made as a collective work based on the ...

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