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  Re: Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone

  Not just private, or personal, but also interpersonal

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  Tyler Bickford Columbia University

  Wednesday, February 17, 2010 — 3:48 pm

  possibilities for shared listening. So the "personal" or "private" is often really ...
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  Re: Why “Where” Matters: Mobile Media and Urban Experience

  perpetual contact

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  Yi-Fan Chen Old Dominion University

  Thursday, February 18, 2010 — 2:45 am

  “where I am” and “what I am doing” tweets with instant messaging (IM) “away message.”  Baron et al. found ... that the away message in IM enables users to establish a continuing sense of social “presence.”  ...
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  Craft Cultures Online- Can they be "global"?

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  Radhika Gajjala Bowling Green State University

  February 23, 2010

  that there are more globally nuanced and multiple intersections possibles. This present piece was ... ravelry.com, and ebay- that exist side by side with practices of buying and selling virtual artifacts based in ... liberating potential of craftivism made possible in these networks? Thus while on the one hand these networks ...
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  Real Men Wear Heels

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  Madison Moore Yale University

  February 23, 2010

  it's about what's next, what's coming. Possibility, in other words. Rad shows that it’s ... possible for men to wear heels, and not only that it's possible, but it should in fact be ...
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  On Tuning In Next Week

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  Anne Moore Tufts University

  February 26, 2010

  (Shark men! Torture pit!) that might not be possible in a more cohesive ongoing narrative. ...
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  BABEL and Film Authorship

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  Virginia Wright Wexman Northwestern University

  February 27, 2010

  6 comments

  BABEL and Film Authorship collaboration BABEL authorship auteurism Curator's Note As a way of directing attention to often-overlooked craftspeople who work in mainstream movies, we are offering several readings of this sequence from the 2007 film Bab ...
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  Re: BABEL and Film Authorship

  Babel: Editing the Border

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  Katherine Newbold Northwestern University

  Sunday, February 28, 2010 — 7:06 am

  the other side of the border. Crise and Mirrione follow this image with five shots involving pans, ...
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  Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

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  Peter Alilunas University of Oregon

  March 01, 2010

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  Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds masculinity advertising Super Bowl Curator's Note As someone who studies mediated depictions of male masculinity, I find that the Super Bowl represents the Holy Grail of annual research opportunities.   Whi ...
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  Re: Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

  Keeping Our Bases--and Asses--Covered

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Tuesday, March 2, 2010 — 1:30 am

  masculinity advertisement  (for beer, appropriately), and on the theme of this week’s IMR, I’m left wondering: ... in the implausibility of its escape fantasy. But at the same time, I’m not quite sure how body wash ... and a shiny new phallus sportscar could possibly be enough compensation for the trials and ...
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  Back to Nurture: Bear Bodies and The Tactile Tactics of Queer Masculinity

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 02, 2010

  5 comments

  by the restraints of a culture which, for possibly the first time, was coded as feminine. Through ... resist and side-step homonormative beauty standards—characterized by smooth, gym-toned bodies—as well as ... gentle, tender, and nurturing possibilities for male-male contact. This archive stands in stark contrast ...

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