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Re: Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

Keeping Our Bases--and Asses--Covered

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Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 — 1:30 am

masculinity advertisement (for beer, appropriately), and on the theme of this week’s IMR, I’m left wondering: ... in the implausibility of its escape fantasy. But at the same time, I’m not quite sure how body wash ... and a shiny new phallus sportscar could possibly be enough compensation for the trials and ...

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Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

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Peter Alilunas University of Oregon

March 01, 2010

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Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds masculinity advertising Super Bowl Curator's Note As someone who studies mediated depictions of male masculinity, I find that the Super Bowl represents the Holy Grail of annual research opportunities. Whi ...

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Re: BABEL and Film Authorship

Babel: Editing the Border

By

Katherine Newbold Northwestern University

Sunday, February 28, 2010 — 7:06 am

the other side of the border. Crise and Mirrione follow this image with five shots involving pans, ...

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BABEL and Film Authorship

By

Virginia Wright Wexman Northwestern University

February 27, 2010

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BABEL and Film Authorship collaboration BABEL authorship auteurism Curator's Note As a way of directing attention to often-overlooked craftspeople who work in mainstream movies, we are offering several readings of this sequence from the 2007 film Bab ...

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On Tuning In Next Week

By

Anne Moore Tufts University

February 26, 2010

(Shark men! Torture pit!) that might not be possible in a more cohesive ongoing narrative. ...

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Real Men Wear Heels

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Madison Moore Yale University

February 23, 2010

it's about what's next, what's coming. Possibility, in other words. Rad shows that it’s ... possible for men to wear heels, and not only that it's possible, but it should in fact be ...

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Craft Cultures Online- Can they be "global"?

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Radhika Gajjala Bowling Green State University

February 23, 2010

that there are more globally nuanced and multiple intersections possibles. This present piece was ... ravelry.com, and ebay- that exist side by side with practices of buying and selling virtual artifacts based in ... liberating potential of craftivism made possible in these networks? Thus while on the one hand these networks ...

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Re: Why “Where” Matters: Mobile Media and Urban Experience

perpetual contact

By

Yi-Fan Chen Old Dominion University

Thursday, February 18, 2010 — 2:45 am

“where I am” and “what I am doing” tweets with instant messaging (IM) “away message.” Baron et al. found ... that the away message in IM enables users to establish a continuing sense of social “presence.” ...

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Re: Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone