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  The Trouble with Context in Archiving Soaps' Pivotal Moments

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  Sam Ford Massachusetts Institute for Technology

  February 16, 2012

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  of Soap Opera As the World Turns Curator's Note As a number of long-running U.S. soap operas are ... the soap. For fans who watched the original run and could fill in the gaps, the episodes were ... know was her father; and that her mother had known she was adopted. Rod learned who his daughter ...
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  Could I Hear That on YouCode?

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  Nick Montfort MIT

  February 09, 2012

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  video, difficult to download and very limited. No modification, no freedom to run a program indefinitely. ... workers are so effectively doing. In Media Res, which allows videos and images but not running computer ...
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  Love and AIDS in the Afternoon

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  Cassandra Belek TV Industry Professional

  February 15, 2012

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  discovered he had contracted AIDS from a previous relationship. Robin learned she was HIV positive shortly ... Soaps do run the risk of misrepresenting issues. Characters with cancer are suddenly pushed to the ...
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  Tom Cruise in Rock of Ages: Giving Until It Hurts

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  June 15, 2012

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  maneuver in  Knight and Day and running atop the world's tallest building  in  MI: IV. Finally, ... production. Thus, it's no surprise to learn that Cruise purportedly spent months preparing for Rock of ...
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  The Increasing Instant Nostalgia in Mediated Sports

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  Ryan Lizardi SUNY Polytechnic Institute

  August 29, 2012

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  Beijing run may be unmatchable (along with his career), but media's increasing instant nostalgia ... to reflect and learn from history. ...
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  Storytelling and the Role of Imagination in Educational Children's TV of the 1980s

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  Caroline Ferris Leader University of Texas at Austin

  February 01, 2012

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  concerns of child development. In the 1980s, trending educational thought on imagination as a learning tool ... energetic learning tools” despite the existing focus on “logical thinking.”  However, imaginative learning ... is complex, with seemingly real but unquantifiable benefits to children’s learning. This fascination ...
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  The Lying Game and Game Theory

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  Dana Och University of Pittsburgh

  November 26, 2012

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  a world for which she must then learn the rules and how to behave within the parameters of allowed ... is habituated to learning the rules of a new game space. The distance between her real identity and ... world – listening and looking while accessing clues to learning the established relationships, correct ...
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  Breaking In a Formula for a Successful Network Sitcom

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  Jennifer Porst University of North Texas

  May 16, 2012

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  changed its mind and ordered seven episodes as a midseason replacement for the painfully awful  Running ... in May 2011, Fox canceled the show before it finished its run. The rumor   was that Fox decided to go ... them to run lower rated, edgier, single camera comedies aimed at niche audiences, networks are stuck ...
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  To Give Anything Less

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  Scott F. Parker University of Minnesota

  August 02, 2012

  a blazing 26:17. Rupp’s 5,000 race at the Trials was the bigger story. Running at what has not been his ... running one of the bravest races ever run. Any medal for Rupp would surpass Pre’s result. But in order to ...
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  Longer Length, Reduced Risk?: Mini-series as Pilots

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  September 14, 2012

  2 comments

  narrative chessboard for a series run.  Added to this textual strategy, critical reception and industrial ... Animals ' ratings over the course of its run leave the option of pick-up in question, there remains ... three hours long.  From the length and the distance betweeen initial airing and series run, producers ...

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