The Disincentives to Combat Concussions in Professional Sports Sports Injuries sports Curator's Note As increased medical research has demonstrated the nature of and dangers related to concussions, sports leagues have moved to protect their players f ...
Viral Shock and Spectacle in the Policing of Borders: The Youtube Taser Death of Robert Dziekanski Curator's Note It may seem something of a strange choice to write an In Media Res commentary on a Youtube video that I personally find difficult to wat ...
Economics You Can Play, Not Economics You Can Use? video games The Sims economics consumption Curator's Note Video games have painted economic pictures – and been economic playgrounds – since the 1980s. More than three decades of games engaging with ...
"Awra Amba"- Documentary and Transmedia Activism WireWax transmedia film documentary cross-media activism Curator's Note The documentary faces a special set of challenges when trying to incorporate transmedia practice- can one extend the st ...
The Marlboro Marine and His Collaborators: Documentary as Collective collaboration documentary new media Curator's Note How does a documentary capture what’s true? This may be the genre’s fundamental challenge: to give an accurate take on the events ...
License to Kill Time (digital film restoration) Time James Bond film restoration erasure digital cinephilia Curator's Note This video compiles selected bits from a 2004 promo for Lowry Digital Images' restoration of Universal's library of J ...