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  “I’m Here Because I’m Bored”: Getting at the Nature of Ludic Computation

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  Judd Ruggill University of Arizona

  October 30, 2007

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  “I’m Here Because I’m Bored”: Getting at the Nature of Ludic Computation computers gaming history ...
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  Celebrating Kandy Fong: Founder of Fannish Music Video

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  Francesca Coppa Muhlenberg College

  November 19, 2007

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  expertise and equipment. We have the featured vid, "Both Sides Now" (1980), literally thanks to ... both stylistically and technologically, "Both Sides Now" is the grandmother of fannish vids. ... way." In "Both Sides Now," Fong emphasizes an aspect of Spock's character which has been ...
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  It’s That Time of the Season: The British Invade American Idol

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  Alisa Perren University of Texas at Austin

  April 09, 2007

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  to the adoption of new films, clothes and hairstyles on both sides of the Atlantic. The money to be ...
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  Re-envisioning our Possible Past(s): Alternative Histories in Contemporary Summer Blockbusters

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  Michael S. Duffy Department of Electronic Media and Film, Towson University

  June 14, 2011

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  Re-envisioning our Possible Past(s): Alternative Histories in Contemporary Summer Blockbusters ...
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  Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  February 26, 2008

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  particular fosters an opening of reading possibilities, I want to encourage more possibilities than camp ... Burgundy histories?- that deploy camp to new advantage. Or might such projects conflict with a possible ...
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  'The Past is a Foreign Country. This Is Your Passport.': Media Fragments, Digital Archives and Virtual Museums

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  Mabel Rosenheck Northwestern University

  February 29, 2012

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  but makes possible new, unexpected and productive meanings about the artifacts of the past. ...
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  Curating the City

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  Mark Tebeau Cleveland State University

  May 25, 2012

  creates the possibility for a pervasive interpretive environment, hearkening toward the Internet of ...
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  Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  February 28, 2008

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  would supplement—and possibly displace--local ETV stations. In the process, they would substitute ...
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  Making the Past Visible: Introduction

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  Ethan Thompson Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  March 15, 2015

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  Making the Past Visible: Introduction television making the past visible history archive Curator's Note From newly indexed collections in brick and mortar archives, to “official” online sources, to hidden or just under-funded collections, there is an ...
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  What is so comical about old choreography?

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  Mari Pajala University of Turku (Finland)

  November 09, 2007

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  What is so comical about old choreography? history globalization nostalgia music video Scandanavia Finland Armi & Danny 1970s Grease dance comedy Gregorious YMCA context Curator's Note Many of the most widely circulated clips of old Finnish telev ...