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  The Guy Watching is HOW Old?

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  Rachel Mizsei Ward University of East Anglia

  January 30, 2012

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  The Guy Watching is HOW Old? niching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic audiences Curator's Note Children’s cartoons have long been considered niche programming but My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (FiM) is itself aimed at a very particular niche ...
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  Evidencing the perversion assumption

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  Rachel Mizsei Ward University of East Anglia

  Tuesday, January 31, 2012 — 11:06 am

  “run by a man”! The Huffington Post talks about "public fascination with this curious ...
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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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  What about New Technology?

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Thursday, February 2, 2012 — 4:08 pm

  interactivity allows for deeper engagement and learning. As each click is counted on these technologies it would ...
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  88 Constellations for Wittgenstein

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  Katherine Hayles Duke University

  February 06, 2012

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  88 Constellations for Wittgenstein narrative assemblage digital literature David Clark Curator's Note Long narrative fiction has always been a problem for digital literature.  The screen length, the temptation to click, and the hypertextual Web have ...
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  The Trouble with Digital Literature

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  John Bresland Northwestern University

  Monday, February 6, 2012 — 6:39 pm

  and perhaps too of the digital dilettante. Good to know I’ll be here all week, learning from the best. ...
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  Interfaces and Feet

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  Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz RUST LTD.

  Tuesday, February 7, 2012 — 7:45 am

  like most gamers I know, I dove in without reading the instructions. It was only after learning that ...
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  Could I Hear That on YouCode?

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  Nick Montfort MIT

  February 09, 2012

  3 comments

  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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  Generating Generators

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Thursday, February 9, 2012 — 2:45 pm

  from various artists to one piece, but I like the idea of poets learning prosody and Perl.  Here’s ...
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  Computation, Collaboration

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  Nick Montfort MIT

  Thursday, February 9, 2012 — 9:44 pm

  other interesting capabilities of the computer (and the network) to learn about. I do think that if ... When people download my Python programs to run them, they get warning messages about how they might ... running) I can't discuss a program. I see computation frequently being pushed aside or into ghettos. ...

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