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  Getting Ahead of Ourselves on TikTok

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  Jennifer Barker Georgia State University

  April 28, 2023

  bodies digital editing Curator's Note Surprise, I’m in the same time (Oh ah) Beneath the same sun ... TikTok possible and strategically necessary. These videos are a training exercise for the algorithmic ...
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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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  Is Social Media Like the Coronavirus?

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  Maggie Hennefeld University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

  James Leo Cahill University of Toronto

  April 06, 2020

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  of the possible and what already exists in materialized nature.” (27) Pandemics are not just ... help us “reforge” the chain between what is increasingly virtual and what is materially possible, and ...
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  The Inevitability of Optimism

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  Dee Harvey

  September 02, 2019

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  The Inevitability of Optimism infertility social media video diary optimism hope Curator's Note “It operates on a kind of faith in the fundamental goodness of life... that your perseverance will pay off.” The philosophy of How I Met Your Mother is we ...
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  Pump & Dump the Patriarchy: How Media Influences Motherhood

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  Corrie Locke-Hardy Simmons University

  May 08, 2019

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  Pump & Dump the Patriarchy: How Media Influences Motherhood media motherhood social media Breastfeeding Breast pumping culture society Curator's Note In December of 2018, during a photo shoot for the magazine  Girls,  actress Rachel McAdams was p ...
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  The (Social) Mediated Myth of Childbirth

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  Charlotte Keniston University of Maryland Baltimore County

  May 06, 2019

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  were a statistical possibility--according to the Centers for Disease Control, in the United States, 32% ...
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  AR Horror Gimmicks: Sites of Unbounded Potential and Vulnerability

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  Alexander Svensson Indiana University, Bloomington

  April 02, 2019

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  own possibilities of material unboundedness and breakdown. Importantly, these notions of bodily excess ...
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  Second Screen and Social Media Audience Interactivity on AMC’s Talking Dead

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  Sabrina Pasztor and Jenny Korn University of Southern California and UIC

  April 27, 2016

  confined their interaction in one-sided communication or parasociality (Horton & Wohl, 1956). AMC’s ...
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  France's Combat of Extremism Through Social Media

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  Michael Anthony Turcios University of Southern California

  March 23, 2016

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  possibility of people falsely reporting a person who is suspected to be partaking in indoctrination. The clip ... radicalism in exposing the dark side of djihad. Questions: Is the French government relying on stereotypes ...
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  Cellphone Footage as Witness and Instrument for Vigilante Justice

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  Fatma Matin Khan University of Delhi

  March 04, 2015

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  wrote “i made sure i humiliate him as much as possible because i know law will do nothing”. There has ...

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