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  Getting rid of the idea that older adults are television addicts

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  Margot van der Goot Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

  March 26, 2009

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  watch more television (on average) than younger people do. This has led to the one-sided image that ... Only some people watch for want of something better: as compensation for things that are not possible ... (anymore).   I’m wondering whether older people in different cultures and different countries experience ...
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  Behind the Laughter Curtain: Image(in)ing Later Life Marriage through Comedy

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  Melissa Aleman James Madison University, School of Communication Studies

  March 25, 2009

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  such representations to render possible images as obscene, such as older adult sexuality, infidelity, ... and talk about those stories that we imagine the unseen and unspoken possibility for later life ... a narrative space for viewers to imagine, not only a host of possible punch lines, but also the relationship ...
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  Nadya Suleman: Drag Mom and/or Social Menace

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  Ronald Becker Miami University

  March 11, 2009

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  Note Although so much has already been said about Nadya Suleman in the popular press (and I’m sure ... clear, I’m not troubled by her “irresponsible” decision to implant 6 embryos at a time when she was ... (I’m not saying that that wasn’t irresponsible, just that I’m not all that troubled by it.) I suppose ...
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  "Not Ready to Make Nice": Indigenous Music Video and Lessons of History

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  Michelle Raheja University of California, Riverside

  May 05, 2009

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  using the Dixie Chicks’ lyrics as a prompt:  “Forgive, sounds good.  Forget, I’m not sure I could.  They ... say time heals everything, but I’m still waiting.”  The video transforms the lyrics from an ...
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  ‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar Galactica

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  January 30, 2009

  ‘I’m Not a Homophobe, It’s Just Not Central to the Plot’: Colonizing Queer Spaces on Battlestar ... (and possibly in masking their homophobia). Where some producers in the 1970s sought to make TV ... a slippery means of transforming possible bigotries into matters of personal preference – for the plot ...
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  Brought to You With Limited Commercial Interruption: The temporalities of online TV

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  JP Kelly Royal Holloway, University of London

  February 18, 2009

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  temporalities of broadcast TV. It’s not just the possibility for viewers to reorganise the sequence of their ad ... accustomed to the shorter commercial breaks of online TV, it seems possible that more broadcasters will ...
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  "Possible or Probable?": An Imagined Future of the Book

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  Kathleen Fitzpatrick Michigan State University

  December 02, 2009

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  "Possible or Probable?": An Imagined Future of the Book screen ebook book Curator's ... Note "Possible ou Probable?," a video produced by the French publishing group Editis, ... presents a fascinating set of possible futures for reading devices. (Don't worry if you don't ...
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  'Mohr' No More? Advertising the Other in German-Speaking Europe

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  Susanne Hamscha Free University Berlin

  October 28, 2009

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  Austrian customers, namely “Mohr im Hemd” ice cream. “Mohr im Hemd,” a warm chocolate cake served with ... colonialism and slavery. But “Mohr im Hemd,” be it as ice cream or in its usual cake form, is not the only ...
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  Genre Matters

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  andreas thatcher NONE

  October 15, 2009

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  to sacrifice journalism standards for a wider audience. But new financing possibilities allow ...
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  Battlestar Redactica: Visual Revision of Narrative Error

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  Julie Levin Russo Stanford University

  November 18, 2009

  2 comments

  Galactica offered glib and one-sided resolutions to the program's complex and ambivalent questions. In ... authorship, capturing both the futility and, through its very existence, the possibility of this struggle. ...

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