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  Animals on the Loose, in the News!

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  Sarah O'Brien Georgia Institute of Technology

  August 23, 2013

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  anthropomorphism that entertains the possibility that animals are like humans (or adroit thieves of human ... identities, e.g. the “I’m in ur…” meme), videos of animals on the loose bespeak a fascination with the ...
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  Of Scabs and Cats: The WGA’s Internet Campaign

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  Miranda Banks Loyola Marymount University

  December 17, 2007

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  called off, the two sides have been strategizing on how best to sway public opinion. While the AMPTP has ... professional writers creating content for the Internet, the possibilities of the medium for entertainment—and ...
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  What's so gross about pink slime?

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  Sarah O'Brien Georgia Institute of Technology

  November 25, 2013

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  verified, and claims to its provenance range from possibly hot dog batter to a factory somewhere in China. ...
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  Birds in Oil and Watercolor

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  Lisa Uddin Whitman College

  October 08, 2010

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  Birds in Oil and Watercolor magazine Environment BP Oil Spill animals aesthetic of disaster Curator's Note Steve Mumford traveled to Venice, Louisiana last spring to document the Deepwater Horizon calamity. Published in the September 2010 issue of Ha ...
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  When Foxes Attack

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  Brett Mills University of East Anglia

  October 05, 2010

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  When Foxes Attack news FOX attack animals Curator's Note As the video summary by Newsy shows, international news coverage followed the mauling of two nine-month old twins by a fox in the UK in June 2010. The fox is assumed to have entered the suburba ...
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  Place and Voice in Bear 71

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  Sarah O'Brien Georgia Institute of Technology

  October 01, 2014

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  Place and Voice in Bear 71 surveillance identification digital animals Curator's Note  The interactive documentary Bear 71   (Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison, National Film Board of Canada, 2012) invites users to toggle between a data visualization ...
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  Looking at People Looking at Animals

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  Randy Malamud Georgia State University

  August 19, 2013

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  Looking at People Looking at Animals power I Can Haz Webcam gaze aquariums animals Curator's Note Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about NSA surveillance confirm that we live in an age of panopticonic fantasy. We want to see everything, and we exp ...