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  Re: Bant Singh can still sing

  I guess my question is can

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Sunday, February 4, 2007 — 5:46 pm

  I guess my question is can Bant Singh's video letter-- available free of charge through Youtube-- provide the Dalit with a global voice, or will its meanings become lost amidst the sheer abundance of materials available for viewing on Youtube and con ...
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  Re: Bant Singh can still sing

  Thanks Radhika. I will check

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Sunday, February 4, 2007 — 7:46 pm

  Thanks Radhika. I will check out the issue of New Media and Society you mention. My own research examines how Inuit identity is constructed/represented by Inuit for global audiences through on-line promotional and educational sites built around Inuit medi ...
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  Re: BollyWood for the Trees

  perhaps it is only because I

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Tuesday, March 13, 2007 — 4:35 pm

  perhaps it is only because I have just reread Ulf Hannerz's work on Cosmopolitan identity in preparation for a class lecture, but I am struck watching this clip on the question of mastery-- how the Simpsons (and Smithers) have no problem integrating ...
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  Re: The Last Lion King of Scotland

  Since meaning-making for

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Thursday, April 12, 2007 — 5:02 pm

  Since meaning-making for these types of mash-ups seems to require a certain amount of intertextual knowledge (you probably do not have to have seen both-- or either-- films, but you have to have some understanding of their generic conventions or plots gar ...
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  Re: Stars on the Tarmac: 1950s Air Travel & the Global Commodity Intertext

  Nice piece, Michael. is this

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Thursday, November 29, 2007 — 6:48 pm

  Nice piece, Michael. is this what Manifest Destiny looks like in the mid-20th Century? Cowboy stars riding jet airliners westward and eastward in an attempt to tame the savage global TV market? Most interesting to me in these publicity stills are the ways ...
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  Re: “The Legend of G.I. Joe…New from Marvel Comics!”: The Toy as Comic Book on Television

  Great piece, Derek! Being

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Thursday, May 8, 2008 — 11:36 pm

  Great piece, Derek! Being the comic book fan that I am, I just went back and browsed through Marvel's G.I. Joe #1, expecting to see lots of ads for G.I. Joe merchandise. There were none (in fact there are no overt ads at all in the comic). What I fou ...
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  Re: On Political Satire: ‘Ha-Ha’ Funny or Contemptuously So?

  Are the folks who do laugh

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Tuesday, July 24, 2007 — 6:50 pm

  Are the folks who do laugh the one's that don't see these series as satirical, but simply as "truthful" (i.e., not asking us to question our assumed political reality, but simply reproducing that reality in base form)? Does satire poin ...
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  Re: On Political Satire: ‘Ha-Ha’ Funny or Contemptuously So?

  I agree that the individual

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Thursday, July 26, 2007 — 7:04 pm

  I agree that the individual and the system are often indistinguishable in satire, but within that conflation there seems to be several possible relational positions that are produced: * The individual embodies the system and everything that is seemingly w ...
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  Re: Holding Out For A Hiro

  I find the show's assertion

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Tuesday, December 19, 2006 — 6:27 am

  I find the show's assertion in an era of continued boundary blurring that some folks are just genetically predisposed to greatness a bit troubling. As opposed to the X-Men, whose mutant abilities have often been allegorically established as both gift ...
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  Re: Holding Out For A Hiro

  Great clip and conversation

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Friday, November 3, 2006 — 12:01 am

  Great clip and conversation starter, Henry! I agree that Hiro’s gleeful embrace of this comic book device is rewarding to oft maligned fans, it seems to me that this is largely put forward within the series as A) a marketing strategy for promoting the Her ...

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