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Why “Where” Matters: Mobile Media and Urban Experience

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Germaine Halegoua University of Wisconsin - Madison

February 16, 2010

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understood why “where” has mattered for years, but it's possible that we might have to re-learn how to ...

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Surveying Wired Landscapes: Early Telephone Directories & Mobile Perception

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Emily Goodmann Northwestern University

February 16, 2010

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Surveying Wired Landscapes: Early Telephone Directories & Mobile Perception telephone directory telephone book telephone mobility Curator's Note Mobility is a complex term not easily untangled from its association with contemporary communication ...

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Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone

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Ben Aslinger Bentley University

February 15, 2010

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Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone visual culture urban space music mobile media listening Curator's Note In this collection of ads for Sony Ericsson Walkman phones, Bollywood hunk Hrithik Roshan activates the “thump” as audio visualizati ...

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Oprah's Got Beef?: Alleged Matriarchies & Masculinist Rhymes

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Kimberly Springer School of Information, University of Michigan

February 12, 2010

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to choose a side---race or gender---or face accusations of black inauthenticity. And as Zahn reminds ...

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Re: Too Big to Fail?

Fear of Falling

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Janice Peck Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, February 12, 2010 — 6:19 am

presence"--and I suspect it's even harder for her to imagine such a possibility. In examining the extensive ...

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Too Big to Fail?

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Janice Peck Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder

February 09, 2010

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Too Big to Fail? TV talk shows Oprah Winfrey Show Oprah Winfrey Network Oprah Quits Curator's Note In this video montage, Oprah Winfrey’s announcement that she will end her talk show in September 2011 and launch her new network in January that same y ...

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Re: What Are Books?

A Late Addition

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Ted Striphas Indiana University, Dept of Communication & Culture

Sunday, December 6, 2009 — 4:16 pm

reducing their weight and hence to minimize shipping costs. There's a possible claim to be made here ...

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Re: "Possible or Probable?": An Imagined Future of the Book

I like to believe probable!

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Elizabeth Lenaghan Northwestern University

Thursday, December 3, 2009 — 4:33 pm

another. All of these possibilities are often left out of our conversations regarding the potential ... employ them and integrate them into preexisting culture. I’m not sure it would be as easy for me to fall ...

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