Archive for August, 2012

Liveness with a Lag: Temporality & Streaming Television [Part 1]

August 9, 2012
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Liveness with a Lag: Temporality & Streaming Television [Part 1]

I invested in a Roku box to reduce costs by streaming television over the Internet rather than paying for cable. Mission accomplished? Kind of.
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Dear Search Committees,

August 7, 2012
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Dear Search Committees,

It’s almost job season again, which means that it’s almost advice season again. Though grad students and job seekers are inundated with advice, search committees need advice too.
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The 2012 Sight & Sound Poll: Don’t Call it a Consensus

The 2012 Sight & Sound Poll: Don’t Call it a Consensus

Sight and Sound's top ten gets all the press, but beneath it is a much larger, more heterogeneous body of work that reveals larger trends in film and beyond.
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Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad

August 5, 2012
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Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad

The film work of actress Rosario Dawson helps media studies scholars address overlooked social discourses concerning Latina/o mixed race subjectivity.
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The Internet, Baseball Analysis, and the Persistence of Dogma

August 3, 2012
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The Internet, Baseball Analysis, and the Persistence of Dogma

A brief discussion and interview with Baseball Prospectus podcaster Kevin Goldstein on the current state of baseball analysis.
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Different for Boys: Frank Ocean and the “Problem” of Male Bisexuality

August 1, 2012
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Different for Boys: Frank Ocean and the “Problem” of Male Bisexuality

Frank Ocean's alleged coming out story never uses the word "gay" and his music expresses desire for same- and opposite-sex partners. So how do we make the leap?
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