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Rating the Runway: Project Runway and New York Fashion Week
Project Runway cast On February 10, the three finalists from Bravo’s Project Runway presented their Fall 2006 collections at New York Fashion Week. The shows were recorded for the season finale,...
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TiVoing Childhood
TiVo Set This winter, my family celebrated the fifth anniversary of two life-altering additions to our household – the birth of our first child and the purchase of TiVo. The celebration for my...
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Network Television’s Ongoing Struggle with Web-based Television
by: Ray Cha / Independent Scholar Television As television continues to evolve, we see changes occurring, in terms of its content, delivery and reception, and distribution. In the area of web delivered...
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“Why 2008 Won’t Be Like 1984:” Viral Videos and Presidential Politics
by: Chuck Tryon / Fayetteville State University As a media studies scholar and an incurable political junkie, I watched with fascination this week as the drama surrounding the (initially) anonymously...
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Sex, Media, Celebrity: A Queer Culture of Media Production
by: Adam Fish / UCLA “Bring us your weird, your extreme, your niche, your marginal, your utterly twisted, and we will show you a world of wonder.” –WOW TV Manifesto World of Wonder World of Wonder...
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Watching TV Without Pity
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa VoteForTheWorst.com Despite their threats and invective, it’s hard to take the folks at Fox seriously when they badmouth VoteForTheWorst.com, the Website that...
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La info-estructura de los 22 portales o sitios ciudadanos de los países
por: Octavio Islas and Arturo Caro / Tecnológico de Monterrey, State of Mexico (for English, click here) Introducción El desarrollo de la economía del conocimiento — en la cual Internet observa un...
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La telenovela mexicana en el ciberespacio
por: Claudia Benassini Félix / Tecnológico de Monterrey, State of Mexico (for English, click here) Los actores de “Senda Prohibida” La telenovela mexicana es uno de los productos más exitosos de la...
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“Cibercultura” y cibercultur@
por: Jorge A. González / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (for English, click here) Gráfico del sitio web Imaginify La concepción de la cibercultur@ que presento aquí no necesariamente está...
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Biometrics and Machinima, Reanimated: Jacqueline Goss’s “Stranger Comes to...
1: Night Elf discussing NSEERS in Stranger Comes to Town. In Jacqueline Goss’s Stranger Comes to Town (USA 2007), green Orcs and purple Night Elves appear to discuss their experiences of U.S. customs...
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The Personal Is Digital: Exploring Race, Beauty and Hair Online Briana...
Screenshot from the Shea Moisture hair commercial. Hair care company Shea Moisture quickly learned the power of a viral ad when one of their recent digital commercials caused much controversy. It...
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Reflections of an Unintentional and Underqualified Social Media...
Checking his Twitter page, the grad student contemplates how many more people follow his account than will ever read his lifetime body of research This “article” is an indirect result of a dark...
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Saving New Sounds: Podcasts and Preservation Jeremy Wade Morris / University...
Golden Age of Podcasts for Everyone! We are, as commentators have noted, in the midst of a “Golden Age of Podcasts”; a moment where the choice for quality digital audio abounds, and where new voices...
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The Labor of Transformation: Spaces of Feminine Imperfection in YouTube...
An “average” makeup tutorial on YouTube With the proliferation of “how to” videos on YouTube, the make-up tutorial has sprung up as one of the most popular—and profitable—video forms. These videos...
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Locked Down Listening / Communal Re-imaginationHolly Rogers / Goldsmiths,...
Singing from the balconies in Spain. Today we are listening harder than ever. But to what? Social distancing and isolation have reduced the noise of everyday life. As cities retreat indoors and...
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Your Mascot Could Never: The Effectiveness of Benny the Bull on TiktokJames...
The Chicago Bull’s Mascot: Benny the Bull In an article identifying the biggest sports media trends, global marketing giant, Nielsen, listed “capturing the attention of Gen Z” (Nielsen Sports, n.d.,...
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Do we misremember Eternal September?Kevin Driscoll / University of virginia
America Online, “What’s New”, December 20, 1996, http://web.archive.org/web/19961220155121/http://www.aol.com/new/. Eternal September (or “the September that never ended”) is one of the best-known...
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