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Re: Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror

Thanks Tanya. I’m also

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014 — 9:35 am

Thanks Tanya. I'm also particularly interested in the performativity of the clip which, to my mind, is more parodic than anything. Impey is more than aware of the niche audience he is playing to, which makes his position as a "celebrity" in ...

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Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

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Tanya Horeck & Tina Kendall Anglia Ruskin University

April 02, 2014

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Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos social media Circulating pain affect Curator's Note NekNomination videos – a social media drinking game which involves (mainly) young men drinking potentially lethal combinations of alcohol and then is ...

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Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror

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Johnny Walker Northumbria University

April 01, 2014

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Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror Jason Impey Circulating pain amateur horror Curator's Note In recent years, film and media studies has witnessed growing interest in the areas of “informal” film distribution ...

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Re: "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

Fascinating post

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Tanya Horeck Anglia Ruskin University

Monday, March 31, 2014 — 6:29 pm

which the circulation of such images opens up the possibility for resistant voices. In her article on ...

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"Rape Culture" and the Social Media

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April Cobos Old Dominion University

March 31, 2014

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"Rape Culture" and the Social Media social media sexual assault Circulating pain Curator's Note This is a large portion of the video made by a friend of one of the convicted men in the Steubenville rape case after he received photographs of ...

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#ABCReports and Black Twitter

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Ben Aslinger Bentley University

March 28, 2014

pervasiveness, and mutlivocality of Black Twitter. Using new digital tools it is possible to map and time the ...

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Black Twitter- Contagious Hashtags

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Sanjay Sharma Brunel University

March 27, 2014

such as Facebook et al don’t exhibit the technological affordances that can make possible ‘Black ... While Twitter is a vast social network it exhibits a ‘small world’ phenomenon: the possibility of ... production of contagious social connections. Black Twitter multiplies the possibilities of being raced ...

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Re: The Many Texts of Textless Paratexts