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Querying the Queue

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Lindsay Bosch Video Data Bank

December 04, 2013

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possibility of meaning is liberated from contingencies of use. “Clearly archives are not neutral,” Sekula ...

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Re: Netflix and Rethinking Ritualized Consumption of Audiovisual Content

Good clip and post

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Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 — 12:24 am

watching the episodes together, offer a possible counter to my assertion that it hurts interpersonal ... increasingly little regard for others. Of course, it's also possible to argue that having more programs at ...

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Netflix and Rethinking Ritualized Consumption of Audiovisual Content

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Ariane Lebot Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

December 03, 2013

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Netflix and Rethinking Ritualized Consumption of Audiovisual Content spectatorship Netflix binge-watching Curator's Note This promotional clip for IFC’s Portlandia testifies to the acknowledgment of binge-watching as a widespread practice, as its com ...

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Marshall McLuhan and Harold Adams Innis Watching Netflix

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Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

December 02, 2013

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theorists beyond the grave. Today, I’m imagining him in conversation with Harold Adams Innis, that other ...

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Food Authorities: The Burger Foundation and the Sources of Expertise

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Eric LeMay Ohio University

November 29, 2013

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Food Authorities: The Burger Foundation and the Sources of Expertise art authority expertise food Michelle Ellsworth Curator's Note As eaters, we’re bombarded by information about food: what’s good for us, what’s not, what’s the right amount, what’s ...

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So Beautiful, So Broken: Hunger, Pinterest and Food Bloggers as Activists

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Hannah Heller Inherit the Spoon

November 28, 2013

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anti-hunger campaign resulted in dozens of pins to Pinterest, yes. But there is also the real possibility ...

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Food Porn on Tumblr: A Mediated Cornucopia of Fantasies, Desires, and Excesses

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Carlnita P. Greene University of Oregon

November 26, 2013

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Food Porn on Tumblr: A Mediated Cornucopia of Fantasies, Desires, and Excesses food porn food media excess Curator's Note If food was once considered merely as sustenance, today it is a fetish object driving visual, literal, and, especially, simulati ...

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