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Convergence Fashion: Hailing the Gossip Girl Fan Veronica Mars The OC materialism marketing integrated advertising Gossip Girl gender fashion fandom extratextual CW convergence consumerism class Curator's Note Much like Veronica Mars and The OC, Goss ...

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Re: Indian Idol and Flash Fandom

I like the concept of 'flash

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Matt Hills University of Cardiff

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 — 5:25 pm

to the different temporalities and cyclical possibilities of contemporary fandom, as fan investments ... cyclical 'eventness'? And hence, even though there may be greatly progressive possibilities ... while they substantively and perhaps temporarily open up new cultural possibilities? Put more ...

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Indian Idol and Flash Fandom

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Aswin Punathambekar University of Michigan

November 21, 2007

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Indian Idol and Flash Fandom fandom reality TV international TV formats American Idol Indian Idol regionalism India Amit Paul flash fandom Curator's Note In summer 2007, media coverage of Indian Idol-3 focused on how finalist Amit Paul managed to cre ...

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Celebrating Kandy Fong: Founder of Fannish Music Video

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Francesca Coppa Muhlenberg College

November 19, 2007

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expertise and equipment. We have the featured vid, "Both Sides Now" (1980), literally thanks to ... both stylistically and technologically, "Both Sides Now" is the grandmother of fannish vids. ... way." In "Both Sides Now," Fong emphasizes an aspect of Spock's character which has been ...

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Re: SíTV and the emergence of English-language Latino television networks

Interesting points. I'm

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Mary Beltran University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sunday, November 18, 2007 — 7:16 pm

Interesting points. I'm very curious also to see what SiTV and similar networks will become and whether to my eye they will feel very "Latino" (not that we could ever really define what that would look like). I see these networks and shows ...

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Re: Will the Wolf Survive, Los Lobos