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The Art of Seduction: Film Spectatorship in the Age of the Cell Phone

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December 13, 2010

The Art of Seduction: Film Spectatorship in the Age of the Cell Phone Sundance film spectatorship cell phones Curator's Note The video clip contains nudity. It is most likely not safe for work. Coproduced by both the Sundance Channel and the Natio ...

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Re: FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

I'm on your farm, stealing your vegetables

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Alenda Chang University of California, Berkeley

Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 10:55 pm

Ted: thanks for bringing up FarmVille! a) I've been researching farm games for the past few months, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who's been toiling away on my virtual farm in the name of science. And b) I love the tree labyrinth. ...

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Re: FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

Re: Cooperative Farmvill-ing

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Ted Friedman Georgia State University

Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 12:25 am

exploits the full expressive possibilities of social media, as games like Little Big Planet do. It's ...

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FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

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Ted Friedman Georgia State University

December 08, 2010

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the flip side of FarmVille 's somewhat sleazy business model is the utopian gift economy of the ...

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Re: The Flourish

re: rules

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Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 — 6:49 am

these communities work, let alone being able to think meaningfully on the possibility of doing violence ...

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The Flourish

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Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

December 06, 2010

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The Flourish street fighter procedural rhetoric e-sports Curator's Note Debates rage about the social and political functions of videogames. Videogames allow us to enter the bodies and minds of virtual others, explore worlds that exist only in the im ...

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Performance and Play: Mental Disability and the Class Character of Tarnation

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Rachel Thibault University of Massachusetts, Amherst

December 01, 2010

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one that makes Tarnation possible in the first place. The film portrays mental illness not as obstacle ...

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A Disabling Environment

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Katie Ellis Murdoch University

November 29, 2010

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stuck in the rain and late for his job interview. When he finally arrives he can not possibly be ... on his part. Both Finklestein’s thought experiment and the Talk! films show that it is possible to ... new possibilities for media representation. ...

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Re: Transmedia Recipes? Consuming Butterbeer, Pumpkin Juice and Everyflavor Beans