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  Beta-Testing Ublend As a Centralized Course Hub

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  Pete Rorabaugh Kennesaw State University

  August 30, 2016

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  networks-- primarily Twitter and self-hosted web domains running WordPress-- the class needs a centralized ... seeing behind the curtain. Our link to Ublend will give my students a unique kind experiential learning ... projects in the last five years, I’ve learned that intention and vision matter. My interactions with CEO ...
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  The Affective Behind-the-Scenes Paratexts

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  May 24, 2016

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  viewers about the process that went into creating a beloved media text. We learn about the origins of Twin ... interesting because we learn that, unlike the vast majority of film and television production, the score ... music, creating an emotional resonance that is deepened by learning of its almost mystical creative ...
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  Meme-Making for Digital Literacy

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  Renee Hobbs Media Education Lab, University of Rhode Island, Harrington School of Communication and Media

  September 12, 2016

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  they not share and why? High school students learned about social media and explored the concept of ... described their feelings of anxiety about the balance between play and learning that the activity ...
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  "Twin Peaks without David Lynch is like...": Authors, Actors and the "No Lynch, No Peaks" Campaign

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  Rebecca Williams University of South Wales, UK

  May 27, 2016

  disappointment but a campaign run by former cast members from the series was also established. This originated on ... Facebook in the “ Official Twin Peaks Cast run site ”, allowing actors including Sherilyn Fenn (Audrey ...
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  "Avengers" Art Contest: Professionalizing Fans or Fanning Professionals?

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  Lesley Willard Emerson College

  September 24, 2016

  collaborate on a limited-run Avengers Origins comic that would be showcased at SDCC, sold in stores, and ... artists and gifted a ticket to Comic-Con for a photo-op-cum-signing session. Long-running blockbuster ...
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  Bringing Back our Favorites: Nostalgia, Revivals and the Limited Series Format

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  Liz Clarke University of New Brunswick

  December 12, 2016

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  during its initial run and those who had discovered it on DVD or VOD—but also generated a new set of ... as opportunities for long-running network-style series, but as short, limited series. One argument ...
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  Star Wars Holiday Special Fan Edit: Lumpy Saves Life Day

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  Frank Bridges Rutgers University

  December 30, 2016

  running time in half. The remaining material gave an interesting view of Wookiee home life with a focus on ... run time to 38 minutes, and what I believe to be a cohesive and worthwhile viewing: Lumpy Saves Life ...
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  “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed

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  Glen Donnar RMIT University

  April 18, 2016

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  the older man learns to fight again at the insistent behest of the younger black man: “If I fight, you ...
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  Problematic Motherhood: Disney Princesses and the Missing or Overbearing Mother

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  Kate Morgan Newscastic/The Electric Feast

  March 30, 2016

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  run deeper than these musings often presume. It may be that they reflect particular facets of familial ...
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  Selling Magic Through Spellslingers

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  Nick Bestor University of Texas at Austin

  June 08, 2016

  4 comments

  of Spellslingers run between twenty to thirty minutes long; in the interest of brevity I have chosen ...

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