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Re: Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids Fit into Today’s Video Game Landscape?

Child Markets, "Real' Markets, Creepy Boys

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Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

Sunday, September 5, 2010 — 5:25 pm

possibilities present in the medium may provide more opportunities than we may want to admit. ...

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Re: Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids Fit into Today’s Video Game Landscape?

Child centric?

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Sean Geoghegan Cardiff University

Friday, September 3, 2010 — 7:57 pm

come with attacking chainsaws. Leaving the perrenial effects argument to the side and looking at this ... shot in 3D. The technology, its implications and the clear extensions may offer also some possible ...

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Metafiction for Children: A User's Guide

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Philip Nel Kansas State University

September 03, 2010

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a ham (green, with eggs on the side — also green). Less obvious but more important, I wanted my ... from doing so. I’m not sure what hooked me on metafictions, but I expect it was something I saw or read ...

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Young people, social networking and qualitative methods

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Allison Butler Independent Scholar

September 02, 2010

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i dont feel like proofreading sometimes. im serious,if its not a paper for school or sumthing i really ...

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Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids Fit into Today’s Video Game Landscape?

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Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

August 31, 2010

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Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids Fit into Today’s Video Game Landscape? video games press conferences demographics Curator's Note At this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Microsoft opened their press event by showing off ...

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Re: The Wild Child: A Fresh Look at the Pains and Joys of Childhood in Film

about childhood/for adults

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Allison Butler Independent Scholar

Monday, August 30, 2010 — 3:56 pm

both remembering their own childhoods and, quite possibly, preparing their knowledge of their own ...

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The Wild Child: A Fresh Look at the Pains and Joys of Childhood in Film

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Benjamin Thevenin Brigham Young University

August 30, 2010

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The Wild Child: A Fresh Look at the Pains and Joys of Childhood in Film Truffaut film children Curator's Note Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is arguably the most memorable representation of childhood in cinema history—the film’s final freeze-frame ...

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The Politics of the "Same Level Playing Field": Race, Citizenship, and Net Neutrality

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Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

August 26, 2010

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itself; I’m inclined to be more generous, and to view it as a sincere gesture for inclusion. Even so, ...

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Re: Access of Evil: Google, Verizon and the Future of Net Neutrality

I’m pretty sure the activists

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Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 — 8:02 pm

I'm pretty sure the activists in that clip are members of Code Pink Women for Peace. They've been some of the most theatrical media activists; back in 2003, in protest of the FCC's new media ownership rules, they hung out in front of the C ...

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Re: Access of Evil: Google, Verizon and the Future of Net Neutrality