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  Please Feed the Trolls: 4chan and Vernacular Media Policy

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  Bill Kirkpatrick Denison University

  August 23, 2010

  10 comments

  Please Feed the Trolls: 4chan and Vernacular Media Policy 4chan /b/ cyberbullying Jessi Slaughter Media Policy Vernacular Media Policy Curator's Note Remember the 1910s tropes about "little boys in short pants" pranking the nation via wirel ...
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  Re: History Repeats Itself?: How Wrestling Regards Its Performers

  Flat-Back Bumps

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  Shane Toepfer University of North Georgia

  Monday, August 23, 2010 — 3:48 pm

  questions.  Bryan's example is horrifying in the wake of what we have learned about head injuries, ...
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  Re: Please Feed the Trolls: 4chan and Vernacular Media Policy

  Policy is Privilege

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  Bill Kirkpatrick Denison University

  Monday, August 23, 2010 — 7:19 pm

  begun. If so, they will learn soon enough that they dun goofed!   ...
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  Law in the Text

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  Tom Streeter University of Vermont

  August 27, 2010

  4 comments

  It's a Wonderful Life (here, run backwards, for reasons that will soon become clear). The film, ... running the film in heavy rotation during the Christmas season as a cheap way to fill their airwaves. So ... legal force out of the shadows? Running the clip backwards, foregrounding the normally ignored legal ...
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  The Wild Child: A Fresh Look at the Pains and Joys of Childhood in Film

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  Benjamin Thevenin Brigham Young University

  August 30, 2010

  5 comments

  The Wild Child: A Fresh Look at the Pains and Joys of Childhood in Film Truffaut film children Curator's Note Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is arguably the most memorable representation of childhood in cinema history—the film’s final freeze-frame ...
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  Re: The Wild Child: A Fresh Look at the Pains and Joys of Childhood in Film

  about childhood/for adults

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  Allison Butler Independent Scholar

  Monday, August 30, 2010 — 3:56 pm

  marriage and vicariously learn about divorce.   somewhat connected, i wonder if these films made by adults, ...
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  Metafiction for Children: A User's Guide

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  Philip Nel Kansas State University

  September 03, 2010

  6 comments

  Metafiction for Children: A User's Guide stinky cheese purple crayon postmodernism metafiction children Curator's Note Meta-commentary on “Metafiction for Children: A User’s Guide” Of the many reasons I decided to create this film clip, let’s ad ...
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  Re: Metafiction for Children: A User's Guide

  Meta-Media and the Child's Perspective

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  Jeremy Groskopf Georgia State University

  Friday, September 3, 2010 — 1:32 pm

  children's media: though the goal might be an explicit learning outcome ("today's letter is ...
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  Re: Metafiction for Children: A User's Guide

  Metafiction and Play

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  Sunday, September 5, 2010 — 3:58 pm

  as a pure, unrestrained form of children's entertainment and as a necessary venue for learning ...
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  Reporting from the Frontlines: Fan Conventions Go Digital

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  Kayley Thomas University of Florida

  September 08, 2010

  6 comments

  holds incredible potential for fan practices – but does it ever run the risk of reducing passion and ...

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