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  Re: Producing "The Simpsons": Banksy’s Realism on the Factory Floor

  Thanks!

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  Seth Perlow Georgetown University

  Monday, January 24, 2011 — 7:08 pm

  Thanks to the three of you for these wonderful responses. Ed, those sketches are really amazing, and I hadn't seen them yet. I appreciate your pointing them out.  Lisa, I completely agree about the Ge Jin and the Dibbell. In fact, I taught some previ ...
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  Re: youtubeworks?

  Loss and Progress

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  Seth Perlow Georgetown University

  Monday, January 24, 2011 — 7:00 pm

   Thanks, Zac, for this wonderful cap on our week about production. The video has such an atmospheric quality that I've been rather at a loss about what to say about it. For one thing, I think there's much more to be said about "loss" i ...
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  Re: Digital Producers Are Just Like You!

  Labor that Is Not

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  Seth Perlow Georgetown University

  Thursday, January 20, 2011 — 3:58 pm

  Thanks for a great post, Ethan. Until reading this exchange I'd been a little unsure how to understand western corporate workplace comedy in relation to labor and production in digital culture. After all, the characters in this video--and in The Offi ...
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  Re: Digital Producers Are Just Like You!

  CollegeHumor Boss Answering Questions

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  Seth Perlow Georgetown University

  Friday, January 21, 2011 — 2:44 pm

  Last night the person who "runs" CollegeHumor Originals put up an "ask me anything" post on Reddit and fielded an array of questions--many frivolous, but some rather interesting. I think he's stopped answering questions by now, bu ...
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  Re: The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social Network"

  senses of "exposure"

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  Seth Perlow Georgetown University

  Monday, January 17, 2011 — 2:48 pm

   Thanks, Lisa, for this wonderful post. I particularly like how, near the end of your comments, you're beginning to unpack the ways in which the hyper-sexualization and erotic exoticization of Asian women in fact obscures their presence as raced subj ...
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  Re: Paying with Bagels: The Labor of Web Video Production

  Sex, reproduction, the virtues of suffering

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  Seth Perlow Georgetown University

  Thursday, January 20, 2011 — 4:18 pm

  Yes, this post and Ethan's go together quite well, giving us two very different perspectives on the production of web video. A couple of notes on this one: Without making light of the very real sacrifices such people make to produce their web series, ...