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"Mission Report": The Medium Is The Message

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November 16, 2009

"Mission Report": The Medium Is The Message visual essay stargate atlantis music video Lim fandom fan vids Curator's Note This vid was created in response to a challenge in the Stargate: Atlantis (SGA) fandom to create a mission report docu ...

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So Damn Hot – a From Eroica with Love vid by Diana Williams

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Mafalda Stasi Coventry University, UK

November 15, 2009

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a video clip is not the only possible one. Some fans choose to use slide presentations set to music to ...

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Re: Video and Trafficking

Conflating issues, identities and experiences

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Vibhuti Ramachandran New York University

Friday, November 13, 2009 — 9:56 pm

victimhood. Without denying that there could possibly be something that all those subjected to trafficking may ... contexts of work that could possibly have been chosen by the women involved, or as contexts that do not ... to obliterate these possibilities from our evaluation of these situations. On the issue of ...

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Re: Sex workers' rights are human rights

On Criminalization, Consultation and Circulation

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Vibhuti Ramachandran New York University

Friday, November 13, 2009 — 4:20 pm

narrative is organized, but also to treat such interventions as heroic, without interrogating possibilities ...

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Video and Trafficking

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Leshu Torchin University of St Andrews

November 12, 2009

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representation. How the films circulate, and to whom, are necessary questions when considering the possibility of ... of a morality tale that speaks to anxieties over women’s mobility, and possibly, by extension, ...

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She is Me: Gender, Immigration, and Economics in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

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Sarah Van Deusen Phillips Center for Research Libraries--Global Resources Network

November 10, 2009

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a discussion of how it affects economics on our side of the border: Minutemen say that Mexicans steal our jobs, ...

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Re: Fragments of Dexter: The Credit Sequence as Character Study

The title sequence plays as well on the familiarity

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Michael Roberts Queen's University.

Monday, November 2, 2009 — 3:43 pm

Dex's morning has a hidden dark side to it." ...

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Fragments of Dexter: The Credit Sequence as Character Study

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Angelina Karpovich Brunel University

November 02, 2009

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a study in the sinister side of everyday actions: shaving is disruptive and dangerous, preparing breakfast ...

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'Mohr' No More? Advertising the Other in German-Speaking Europe

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Susanne Hamscha Free University Berlin

October 28, 2009

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Austrian customers, namely “Mohr im Hemd” ice cream. “Mohr im Hemd,” a warm chocolate cake served with ... colonialism and slavery. But “Mohr im Hemd,” be it as ice cream or in its usual cake form, is not the only ...

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Re: TV Azteca, Oster Kitchen Appliances, and Mexico's Privileged