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• In Media Res
  Re: Attending to Attention: Church Bells, Prayer Calls, and American Public Space

  This topic fascinates me. 

  By

  Jenna Tiitsman UNC-Chapel Hill and Auburn Media

  Tuesday, April 13, 2010 — 7:26 pm

  This topic fascinates me.  The seemingly paradoxical way that sound is distinguished from noise by not being heard can tell us something important about the way that publics are constructed in America.  Many contemporary theories of publics rely on public ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Marketing Mythology on India’s Cartoon Network

  Owning Tradition

  By

  Jenna Tiitsman UNC-Chapel Hill and Auburn Media

  Monday, April 12, 2010 — 5:29 pm

  This is a great post on the marketing of tradition and how each element remakes the other in this strange animated entanglement of the two.   I am struck by the ways that the particular conventions of advertising allow for a certain flexibility of speech ...