Archive for June, 2010

Refreshing Democracy?

June 8, 2010
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Refreshing Democracy?

Pepsi appears to be redefining the relationship between consumerism and (corporate) citizenship together with the emerging Pepsi generation
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Misreading pleasure: from pro-social soaps to ICT4D

June 7, 2010
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Misreading pleasure: from pro-social soaps to ICT4D

The information and communication technologies for development (ITC4D) initiative can and should be more than developmentalism. How can we think more broadly about the pleasures of engaging with emerging media?
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What Are You Missing? May 24-June 5

June 6, 2010
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What Are You Missing? May 24-June 5

Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Ethical Gaming

June 4, 2010
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Ethical Gaming

As avid mediavores and media scholars, how should we consider our consumption of media products in light of the labor and environmental conditions of production?
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Holding My Breath: Women, Work, and Parenthood

June 3, 2010
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Holding My Breath: Women, Work, and <i>Parenthood</i>

To the series’ credit, it often “goes there”—into those contentious waters of clearly gendered dilemmas about women’s work, motherhood, and guilt that were a mainstay of a lot of 1980s and 1990s drama.
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Glee: The Good, The Bad and The Funky

June 3, 2010
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<i>Glee</i>: The Good, The Bad and The Funky

“Funk” exemplified everything I’ve come to expect from Glee: a confusing mix of rousing musical performances and out of place racist/sexist/heterosexist jokes
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When Sports Talk Radio Converges: The Relevance of Callers’ Hometowns

June 2, 2010
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When Sports Talk Radio Converges: The Relevance of Callers’ Hometowns

The town names of callers allow listeners to construct an imagined regional map, an extended network of communication of which they are one point in their material environment that they comprehend through the car window
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Nationalism, nul points, or, How Eurovision Makes for a Better World

June 1, 2010
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Nationalism, nul points, or, How Eurovision Makes for a Better World

The Eurovision Song Contest has the unparalleled capacity to make that skeleton of nationalism a little less scary – by putting it into a camp costume and acoustically accompanying it with pop music
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