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Following the Instructions

March 17, 2014
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Following the Instructions

Continuing to think about LEGO, the idea of “creativity,” and the unequal extension of that idea to different consumer groups.
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The State of Reality TV: Kidding Around with Reality

January 26, 2011
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The State of Reality TV: Kidding Around with Reality

Though not the most popular or influential entry in the genre, Kid Nation appropriately offers an elementary school primer both on the conventions of reality competitions and their negotiation of social structures taken for granted in the "real" world.
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The Much(?) Anticipated Return of Caprica

October 9, 2010
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The Much(?) Anticipated Return of Caprica

Despite an appealing sense of inevitable narrative momentum, a long but more importantly uncertain wait makes it hard to feel excitement and anticipation for the mid-season return of this Battlestar spin-off.
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That Other Jack

May 25, 2010
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That Other Jack

24 crosses the finish line with a return to form - and further resources to question and negotiate its assumed reactionary politics.
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We’re Running Out of Time!

April 9, 2010
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We’re Running Out of Time!

With only eight hours left, 24 dies as it lived--made up as it goes along.
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MMO Trek, MMO Problems

March 25, 2010
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MMO Trek, MMO Problems

Star Trek Online fails both in making the television universe an inhabitable virtual space and engendering community and participation within it as a massively-multiplayer game.
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THWIP!+CTRL+DEL

January 12, 2010
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THWIP!+CTRL+DEL

Only 8 years into the Spider-Man film franchise, Sony's decision to start from scratch seems a little hasty. Why reboot Spider-Man?
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