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Disjuncture and Difference in The Amazing Race

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Robert Moses Peaslee Texas Tech University

October 13, 2009

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understanding of the shifting “scapes” made possible in international media environments. It is an eloquent ...

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Re: Convert Now! Crowdsourcing DTV Outreach

Max, I'm glad to see some

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Marusya Bociurkiw Ryerson University, Toronto

Monday, October 12, 2009 — 11:24 pm

Max, I'm glad to see some ideological critique of HD conversion. As far back as the early 80's, some pundits suggested that HDTV would provide television audiences with such intense viewing experiences that audience members will want to continue ...

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Wild Thing: HDTV and the Demasculinized Male Viewer

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Marusya Bociurkiw Ryerson University, Toronto

October 09, 2009

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demasculinization I’m noticing in HDTV ads? Many of the ads I’ve been looking at seem to crystallize what Jeanne ...

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Convert Now! Crowdsourcing DTV Outreach

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Max Dawson Northwestern University

October 07, 2009

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many aspects of the implementation of DTV as possible to private-sphere partners ranging from ...

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Re: “Is This My New TV?”: Divides in the Digital Transition

Another side to the "digital television divide"

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Max Dawson Northwestern University

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 — 3:11 am

possibilities of digital broadcasting. When we consider the hardships that DTV is causing for stations in areas ...

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“Is This My New TV?”: Divides in the Digital Transition

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Caryn Murphy University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

October 05, 2009

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“Is This My New TV?”: Divides in the Digital Transition digital transition digital divide broadcasting Curator's Note This past spring I led a senior seminar examining changes in the television industry from the late 1980s to the digital transit ...

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Re: Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5

Alternatives to Capitalism and Terrorism

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Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

Friday, October 2, 2009 — 5:23 pm

But, the alternatives it offers seem either bleak or fantastical. On the bleak side, RE5 proposes ... fantastical side, RE5 offers gamers the opportunity to be the hero who saves the world from both White ...

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Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs

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Elizabeth McAlister Wesleyan University

October 01, 2009

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a black man, and not just because this makes him ‘different,’ but because it makes it possible to see that ...

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Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5

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Cathy Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut

September 30, 2009

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Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5 racism zombies neocolonialism Resident Evil 5 Curator's Note Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5 Released March 13, 2009, Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 was ...

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Re: The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories