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  Re: Snuff love: British nostalgia and the mythology of real death in VoD horror

  Making snuff safe

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  Tina Kendall Anglia Ruskin University

  Wednesday, April 2, 2014 — 11:19 am

  the Internet (and as Tanya mentions its 'reality effect') and the distance that is ...
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  Re: "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

  considering resistance in a media "torrent"...

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  Matthew Ferrari University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  Wednesday, April 2, 2014 — 2:57 pm

  Thank you April for the very thoughtful post. Tanya’s point about the “circulation of such images” ...
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  Re: Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

  (im)perturbable bodies...?

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  Matthew Ferrari University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  Wednesday, April 2, 2014 — 8:27 pm

  Thank you Tanya and Tina for your post. I too immediately thought of Jackass as an intertext here. ...
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  The UFC’s Phantom Cam: Refining the Spectacle of Corporeal Damage and Durability

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  Matthew Ferrari University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  April 03, 2014

  5 comments

  The UFC’s Phantom Cam: Refining the Spectacle of Corporeal Damage and Durability Circulating pain CTE Instagram MMA spectacle sports coverage twitter UFC violence Curator's Note “Phantom” cameras enabling super slow-motion are now commonplace from ma ...
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  Re: "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

  As dead as...

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  Peter Snowdon MAD Faculty, PXL/University of Hasselt, Belgium

  Thursday, April 3, 2014 — 8:13 pm

  I see what Tanya means about the verbal repetition of the word "rape", what struck me is how ...
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  Distorting the Pain of Others

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  Peter Snowdon MAD Faculty, PXL/University of Hasselt, Belgium

  April 04, 2014

  4 comments

  Distorting the Pain of Others Syria revolution distortion compression Circulating pain Curator's Note This video of two Syrian protesters being beaten up by pro-regime thugs in the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, on 18 March 2011 demands our attention, bot ...
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  Re: "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

  THE POSITION OF THE VIEWER

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  Peter Snowdon MAD Faculty, PXL/University of Hasselt, Belgium

  Friday, April 4, 2014 — 10:27 am

  Thanks Tanya. I'm also wondering whether this clip is differently unwatchable from different ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

  Idiocy and non-violence

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  Peter Snowdon MAD Faculty, PXL/University of Hasselt, Belgium

  Friday, April 4, 2014 — 10:49 am

  It's interesting that, as Tanya and Tina point out, so many commentators see NekNomination as ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The UFC’s Phantom Cam: Refining the Spectacle of Corporeal Damage and Durability

  Great post!

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  Matt Smith Georgia State University

  Friday, April 4, 2014 — 2:22 pm

  I think, is Tina and Tanya's post from yesterday, but I'm thinking more diverse and less... ...
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  Re: Distorting the Pain of Others

  calling into question

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  Peter Snowdon MAD Faculty, PXL/University of Hasselt, Belgium

  Friday, April 4, 2014 — 6:23 pm

  powerfully moving documents may also be the least documentary (cf what Tanya says below about affect as ...

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