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  Re: Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation

  Fuzzy line between parody and product placement indeed

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  Sam Close DePaul University

  Wednesday, March 16, 2011 — 8:16 am

  When I saw your post title I thought immediately of the Oscar-winning animated short film Logorama ...
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  Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation

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  Gladys Santiago New York University

  March 15, 2011

  8 comments

  Artful Mockers: Brand Parodies Amplified Through Animation The Simpsons product displacement primetime animation animation Curator's Note I’ve been tracking examples of  product displacement--instances in which brand names and logos are greeked or mo ...
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  In Defense of the Crude: Why Bob's Burgers Beats Out the Rest

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  Lauren Bratslavsky University of Oregon

  March 14, 2011

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  a second job as a cab driver. Some claim that the crude in Bob’s Burgers is not clever, nor earned. And ...
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  Re: Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice

  binary or network

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  Timothy Welsh Loyola University New Orleans

  Sunday, March 13, 2011 — 8:02 am

  oppositional but protocological. The player does not win by excercising agency against the bad guy and never ...
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  Re: Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice

  Come to Daddy

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  Mario Rodriguez UPenn

  Friday, March 11, 2011 — 2:23 am

  the cybernetic (cyborg?) imperative to play/finish/win?   What would Haraway think of this ...
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  Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice

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  Timothy Welsh Loyola University New Orleans

  March 10, 2011

  4 comments

  Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice video games posthuman objectivism choice bioshock Curator's Note by Edmond Chang and Timothy Welsh Department of English, University of Washington The video game Bioshock (Irrational Games, 2007) takes ...
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  Re: FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

  I'm on your farm, stealing your vegetables

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  Alenda Chang University of California, Berkeley

  Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 10:55 pm

  allowing neighbors to sneak onto your farm and take your hard-earned vegetables. ...
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  Affirmative Activision

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  December 09, 2010

  1 comment

  units. By the end of launch day, the game sold 5.6 million copies, earning $360 million. Clearly, flak ...
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  Re: FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

  Re: Open Source

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 12:07 am

  the economic ideas presented in, say, Hollywood movies (in which the little guy usually wins) are very ...
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  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  December 08, 2010

  7 comments

  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine simulation postmodernism gaming farmville Facebook Curator's Note 57.6 million Facebook users play FarmVille. Granted, not all of them are people.  Two are my cats, Noisy and Pilot Squeaky. In FarmVille, it helps ...

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