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• In Media Res
  Re: Inside Out: Collaborative Creativity and the Pixar Braintrust

  Braintrust Stretched to Capacity

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Monday, April 21, 2014 — 7:42 pm

  Thank you for starting out week on Pixar. I really appreciated your piece and was wondering if this is an example of a highly effective working relationship that gets stretched when too much is demanded. With Pixar leadership now overseeing much of Disney ...
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  Re: Still Crazy After All These Years: ESPN Films’ The Price of Gold

  Travis thank you for your

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Monday, February 17, 2014 — 7:14 pm

  Travis thank you for your comments on this 30 for 30 documentary. What I find so interesting about this incident is how it is one of the enduring narratives that frame understanding (particularly US understanding) about the Winter Olympics. The Jamaican b ...
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  Re: Confinement and Contagion: Sports’ Desire for Inclusion without Politics

  From one global sports controversy to the next

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Friday, February 21, 2014 — 8:07 pm

  Markus, thank you very much for this post as it transitions us from the end of the Sochi games as a site of global sports/controversy to Brazil as the next site. As the Winter Olympics come to a close I wonder if we have learned anything about how these e ...
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  Re: Too Busy (Stuck in Traffic) To Hate: Atlanta, Sports, and Urban Space

  Chuck your piece reminds us

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Tuesday, February 18, 2014 — 1:01 pm

  Chuck your piece reminds us of the role professional teams play as part of a city and as an engine of urban development. I found it interesting that the justification for the move that the Braves offered was a map of Braves ticket holders showing the domi ...
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  Re: Data Collection, Television, and Twitter

  Transparency through Targeting

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Tuesday, August 6, 2013 — 10:04 am

  Thank you for highlighting the history of data collection. I often argue that social networking services that seem new and invasive are merely manifestations of systems and human behaviors that have been present for some time but rarely cataloged. In some ...
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  Re: Global Stardom, Local Platforms: Daniel Shiao’s Shanghai Calling and International Digital Distribution

  Niche vs Mass, Online vs Intl Coproductions

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Thursday, May 31, 2012 — 11:07 pm

  One of the things that is so interesting about this example is collision between our assumptions about online niche targeting and mass targeting in the cinematic space. International coproductions are often designed to have mass appeal in order to attract ...
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  Re: Beyond Flow

  More in Control or Just Revealing Control

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Tuesday, May 29, 2012 — 3:03 pm

  Sharon, thanks for the Lego Game of Thrones clip and comments. Somewhere there is an executive from the Lego video game franchise that has seen this clip and is trying to figure out a way to create a video game version of the show that is functional despi ...
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  Re: The Guy Watching is HOW Old?

  Is it an artistic statement?

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Thursday, February 2, 2012 — 3:48 pm

  Reading your interesting post, I kept thinking of Pee Wee Herman and the 1960s Batman as famous examples of children's programs celebrated and read transgressively by adults. In both those previous examples there was some claim to high art (for Batma ...
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  Re: “Like Shooting Nerds in a Barrel”: Exploiting the Fanboy Niche

  Is Stuart Escaping?

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Thursday, February 2, 2012 — 3:58 pm

  I have a weird relationship to this show in that I don't hate it but I find it really hacky and easy. It is obsessed with making fun of these characters in the ways you described and the way Henry Jenkins describes in the beginning of Textual Poacher ...
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  Re: Storytelling and the Role of Imagination in Educational Children's TV of the 1980s

  What about New Technology?

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Thursday, February 2, 2012 — 4:08 pm

  Your clip and note made me think about how important the medium is to this message. As you point out this was the 1980s the beginning of the era of video tape. I wonder if there was a desire to take advantage of the new medium by creating content that cou ...

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