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  From Representation to Simulation: A Videogame Translation of the Bechdel Test

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  Robin Haislett Texas Tech University

  March 15, 2013

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  From Representation to Simulation: A Videogame Translation of the Bechdel Test The Bechdel Test media representation Gender Simulation gender and gaming feminism Curator's Note By Robin Haislett (Texas Tech University) and Robert Moses Peaslee (Texas ...
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  Re: Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider

  Continued Protection

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  Robin Haislett Texas Tech University

  Thursday, March 14, 2013 — 4:39 pm

  videos for the PR promotion of the game (the one running on Xbox Live Homescreen the month before ...
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  Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider

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  Agnes Trzak and Alex Annetts Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge

  March 11, 2013

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  Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider Women's Bodies video games Tomb Raider and Gender in Games Lara Croft feminism agency affect Curator's Note While designing the character of Lara Croft, Toby Gard env ...
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  In Media Res in the Crowdsourced Classroom

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  Kim A. Knight University of Texas at Dallas

  March 08, 2013

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  with the strategy of learning through making. The writing that we were doing on the group blog was ...
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  Re: Building Context: Occupy Class and In Media Res

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  Kim A. Knight University of Texas at Dallas

  Thursday, March 7, 2013 — 6:56 pm

  I have really enjoyed learning about the ways people are using IMR in so many different ...
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  Building Context: Occupy Class and In Media Res

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  Pete Rorabaugh Kennesaw State University

  March 07, 2013

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  on IMR proved that the academic skills they had learned to engage novels, plays, and speeches were ... learning moments like this one are rare and invaluable, but they were built on familiarity with how the ...
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  Re: In Media Res in the Classroom – “We’re at ‘Now’ Now”

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  Pete Rorabaugh Kennesaw State University

  Tuesday, March 5, 2013 — 12:27 pm

  to produce media (writing, video, bibliography, whatever) that reflect their own learning AND become ... familiar with the learning demonstrations of others in the class. That takes curational skill. I would be ... excited to see the artifacts of the student learning that you describe. I've also been experimenting ...
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  In Media Res in the Classroom – “We’re at ‘Now’ Now”

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  Laura Zaylea Temple University

  March 04, 2013

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  In Media Res in the Classroom – “We’re at ‘Now’ Now” technology education technology digital technology Curator's Note In the 1987 comedy Spaceballs, Lord Dark Helmet and his team search for runaway protagonists by renting a VHS copy of Spaceballs–Th ...
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  Re: Authenticity, The Academy, and the Commodification of Activism: How Oscar Acceptance Becomes Political Platform

  Response to Lauren: Thanks

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  Ryan Castillo University of Denver

  Sunday, March 3, 2013 — 4:33 pm

  globally)? Was this just a convenient platform? Another theme I have come to notice for several years running ...
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  Authenticity, The Academy, and the Commodification of Activism: How Oscar Acceptance Becomes Political Platform

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  Ryan Castillo University of Denver

  February 27, 2013

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  Authenticity, The Academy, and the Commodification of Activism: How Oscar Acceptance Becomes Political Platform Taste & Award Culture Oscars Hollywood Commercial Film activism Acceptance Speeches Curator's Note An avid and lifelong follower of th ...

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