Mabel Rosenheck

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'The Past is a Foreign Country. This Is Your Passport.': Media Fragments, Digital Archives and Virtual Museums

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Mabel Rosenheck Northwestern University

February 29, 2012
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'The Past is a Foreign Country. This Is Your Passport.': Media Fragments, Digital Archives and Virtual Museums vintage retro Photography Media Fragments and Virtual Museums history digital archives Blogs archives Curator's Note While tradit ...
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Selling Strasburg: Baseball, Broadcast Flow and the Commodity Audience

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Mabel Rosenheck Northwestern University

July 08, 2010
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Selling Strasburg: Baseball, Broadcast Flow and the Commodity Audience Stephen Strasburg flow Commodity Audience Baseball Curator's Note Last month, Stephen Strasburg made his Major League debut for the Washington Nationals. He sold out the ballpark, ...

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Re: 'The Past is a Foreign Country. This Is Your Passport.': Media Fragments, Digital Archives and Virtual Museums

and original sources

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Mabel Rosenheck Northwestern University

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 — 10:15 pm
Yes I compltely agree. One of the things I'm fascinated and sometimes troubled by is the quesiton of attribution and sourcing. While most sites offer some attribution there is rarely if ever any interrogation of that. How are objects/texts different ...
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Re: Pixels and Post-Tourism

and geographic contexts

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Mabel Rosenheck Northwestern University

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 — 2:12 pm
This is great stuff! One of the things I'm really interested in is how the museum relates to its physical/geographic surroundings, how an institution like the Museum of Modern Art is linked to the city of New York and both the everyday lives of urban ...
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Re: Summer Binging: What will it make you do?

Interesting that many of the

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Mabel Rosenheck Northwestern University

Friday, July 16, 2010 — 3:04 pm
Interesting that many of the shows you mentioned are 12/13-episode season shows so even if they run 5+ seasons, its still manageable. There's been lots of talk about how DVD boxsets enable bingeing and experiencing shows you miss the first time arou ...
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Re: Summer Binging: What will it make you do?

the other thought I had this

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Mabel Rosenheck Northwestern University

Friday, July 16, 2010 — 10:58 pm
the other thought I had this morning, that I forgot by the time I finished writing the first part of my comment is the idea that in the summer kids especially are encouraged not to just sit in front of the tv but to go to play outside. I often have a str ...
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Re: 100 Years Later: Race and "The Fight of the Century"

a few miscellaneous thoughts

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Mabel Rosenheck Northwestern University

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 — 8:16 pm
"The Johnson-Jeffries fight began troubling the notion that sports are apolitical." "So do today’s African-American athletes—or any pro athletes, for that matter—have a responsibilty to use their celebrity as a political platform? Or has t ...

Bio

I'm a doctoral candidate in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University. My dissertation examines public memory, media history and local media museums. Other research interests include urban studies, popular music and retro fashion. Professional interests include civic engagement, public history and digital humanities. In 2012, I directed exhibition research for the reopening of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. I received my BA in English and Sociology from Temple University in 2006, and my MA from the University of Texas-Austin in 2010 in Radio-Television-Film. I keep two blogs. One, related specifically to my dissertation research can be found at http://yourmuseumspeaking.wordpress.com. The other, with more general concerns both academic, professional and otherwise can be found at http://mabelmeigs.wordpress.com.