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  Opposite day: Arabs and Our Surveillance Society

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  Tarik Elseewi University of Texas at Austin

  April 02, 2009

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  how yummy we find consuming the image of Arabs doing violence to us. Now, I’m not asking you to ... cares about sympathy for the Arabs? I’m interested in sympathy for us Americans! So, let’s pretend that ...
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  Re: Israeli Air Power: Bombs on YouTube

  Thanks for bringing these to

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  Amahl Bishara Tufts University

  Wednesday, April 1, 2009 — 3:44 pm

  I think we should remain open to the possibility that these kinds of videos and other parts of Israel’s PR ... the comments like on this YouTube video?  I’m sure we’re not the only ones who are less than convinced ...
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  Injuring Objectivity? The Multiple Kinds of Violence against Palestinian Photojournalists

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  Amahl Bishara Tufts University

  April 01, 2009

  2 comments

  insinuated, posing a threat to Israel.  Is this a kind of speech act that makes possible violence against ... turned on his camera, and it not only recorded the shooting, making possible a distinct kind of advocacy, ...
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  Israeli Air Power: Bombs on YouTube

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  Helga Tawil-Souri New York University

  March 31, 2009

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  Israeli Air Power: Bombs on YouTube Youtube terrorism Israel propaganda war Palestine Gaza bombs missiles Hamas IDF air force moral army Curator's Note After the apparent public relations failure (and, arguably, military failure) of Israel’s war with ...
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  Media and Conflict in the Middle East

  March 30, 2009 to April 03, 2009
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  Re: Are you on Facebook? Seniors and new communication technologies

  Jaye: Thank you for your

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  Mei-Chen Lin Kent State University

  Friday, March 27, 2009 — 9:24 pm

  the flip side of it. But, maybe the babyboomers will change that, at least in the US. I also love the ...
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  Re: Are you on Facebook? Seniors and new communication technologies

  Broadening Social Networks

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  Melissa Aleman James Madison University, School of Communication Studies

  Friday, March 27, 2009 — 4:51 pm

  communication technologies have the potential to both broaden and compartmentalize the kinds of possible ...
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  Are you on Facebook? Seniors and new communication technologies

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  Mei-Chen Lin Kent State University

  March 27, 2009

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  Are you on Facebook? Seniors and new communication technologies social networking Older adults internet Curator's Note   According to a recent Pew Internet study (2006), approximately 73% of the baby boomers and 46% of all seniors (i.e., above 65 yea ...
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  Re: Behind the Laughter Curtain: Image(in)ing Later Life Marriage through Comedy

  Same relationship problems for younger and older people?

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  Margot van der Goot Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

  Thursday, March 26, 2009 — 11:17 am

  “older” couple. Now I’m wondering what the portrayal of Frank and Marie says about romantic relationships ...
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  Getting rid of the idea that older adults are television addicts

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  Margot van der Goot Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

  March 26, 2009

  3 comments

  watch more television (on average) than younger people do. This has led to the one-sided image that ... Only some people watch for want of something better: as compensation for things that are not possible ... (anymore).   I’m wondering whether older people in different cultures and different countries experience ...

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