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  Re: Of Niggas and Citizens: Mobilizing Strategies on The Boondocks and the Rhetoric of Blame

  From Vancouver, BC

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Sunday, July 29, 2007 — 1:44 am

  seemingly attributes to blacks alone. So maybe MacGruder's "earned" himself the chance to ...
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  Of Niggas and Citizens: Mobilizing Strategies on The Boondocks and the Rhetoric of Blame

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  July 27, 2007

  3 comments

  Of Niggas and Citizens: Mobilizing Strategies on The Boondocks and the Rhetoric of Blame satire race transcoding stereotyping citizenship African American cartoon The Boondocks Kobena Mercer Nightline Bill Cosby Aaron McGruder Cartoon Network Curator' ...
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  Making Sense of South Park, or Is a Snuke in a Sniz more than a Snuke in a Sniz?

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  Ethan Thompson Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  July 26, 2007

  2 comments

  Making Sense of South Park, or Is a Snuke in a Sniz more than a Snuke in a Sniz? narrative satire politics South Park Comedy Central cartoon carnivalesque taste election Hillary Clinton CNN Curator's Note South Park has parlayed crude animation and c ...
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  Virtual Funeral Crashing

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  Dave Parry University of Texas at Dallas

  July 20, 2007

  3 comments

  best wins, funeral crashing is not only accepted but actually playing the game really well—the logical ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  When I first viewed this

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  Monday, July 9, 2007 — 2:52 pm

  human club. The human club is still figured as white in mainstream narrative forms, but one can earn ...
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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  July 09, 2007

  10 comments

  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica stereotyping Sci-fi representation race digital Battlestar Galactica Asian Curator's Note Sharon Valerii, played by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park, is a young, pretty, highly educated Asian woman ...
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  The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos

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  Douglas Howard Suffolk County Community College

  June 27, 2007

  2 comments

  The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos narrative ambiguity The ... Harris, like so many viewers, essentially been seduced into believing that Tony is on the winning side? ...
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  Sopranos-themed week

  June 25, 2007 to June 29, 2007
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  Make a fan vid for MTV and win cool prizes: Participatory pleasures and profits converge

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  May 11, 2007

  1 comment

  Make a fan vid for MTV and win cool prizes: Participatory pleasures and profits converge marketing ... carrot that the judges will determine winning entries based on naturalized criteria such as "humor, ...
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  Re: Empathy is Futile? Media, War and Empire from the Classroom

  Two points: "public grief"

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  Megan Boler University of Toronto

  Wednesday, May 9, 2007 — 5:25 pm

  days later (also a must watch) they discuss this watershed moment and its political implications w/in ...

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