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  Free and Freer: WikiLeaks and ViCKi LEEKX

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  Ivan Kreilkamp Indiana University

  February 11, 2011

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  swimming in an insurgent stream of privacy-unprotected data. “I’m not talking about getting it for free,” ... violent rounding-up of light-skinned red-heads into prison camps; “I’m talking about making it freer.” ...
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  Miss Independent, or Between Women- Reconsidered

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  Karen Tongson University of Southern California

  March 12, 2009

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  configurations of love—like friendship—that carry other affective promises. We forget the fun and joy possible in ...
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  'Faceshopping' (2018) with Sophie Xeon/SOPHIE

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  Joe Jackson SOAS University of London

  May 21, 2019

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  “I’m real when I shop my face” embrace unsavoury aspects of self-love which are deemed corrosive ...
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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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  Hide Your Kids! Hide Your Wife! Hide Your Husband!

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  James Hannaham Pratt Institute

  February 09, 2011

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  possible for him to move his family out of the evidently dangerous area in which the incident occurred. ...
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  Raphael Saadiq's Soul Memories

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  Michael D Dwyer Arcadia University

  August 30, 2012

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  "Big Easy"—a feeling of horror at the conditions that made Katrina possible, and the longing for ...
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  Synthesized Sounds and Fusion Friendships in Grimes and Janelle Monaé's "Venus Fly"

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  Christine Capetola The University of Texas at Austin

  January 25, 2016

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  Synthesized Sounds and Fusion Friendships in Grimes and Janelle Monaé's "Venus Fly" race pop music Janelle Monaé Grimes gender drum machine #squadgoals Curator's Note There’s something going on with female friendship in the indie pop s ...
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  Cross-Cultural Appropriation of Pop Songs

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  Brianni Nelson University of Texas at Dallas

  May 04, 2016

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  Cross-Cultural Appropriation of Pop Songs Youtube viral video viral vine video snapchat recontextualizing pop songs recontextualization of pop songs r&b pop music pop nineties next music meme internet hip hop cultural appropriation appropriation 90s C ...
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  "... Or Other Visual Media"

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  Marc Weidenbaum Disquiet.com

  February 10, 2011

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  "... Or Other Visual Media" awards gaming music pop music Curator's Note A tantalizing clause dangles at the end of the name of three of the lesser categories of Grammy Awards. The clause tantalizes because these particular awards--and, by ...
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  Lady Gaga and the High Heels of New Feminism

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  Madison Moore Yale University

  August 04, 2010

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  Lady Gaga and the High Heels of New Feminism Queer Performance pop music performance Lady Gaga Grammy's Drag Armani Curator's Note Lady Gaga showed up at the 2010 Grammy Awards in a dress that was as fabulous as it was hazardous. Designed by Arm ...