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“Real” Transmedia: Cultures and Communities of Cross-Platform Media in Colombia

January 27, 2016
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“Real” Transmedia: Cultures and Communities of Cross-Platform Media in Colombia

Transmedia is more than just a tool for commercial industries. Matt Freeman looks at South American views and uses of transmedia to rethink its contributions to cultural memory and political history.
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The Discursive Asianization of Hungary

The Discursive Asianization of Hungary

Chris Moreh explains how the need to take up the challenge posed by rapid economic growth in Asia has aided the resurrection of national imaginaries of an Asian origin in the Central European country of Hungary.
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Thoughts on English Literacy and Popular Culture in South Korea

Thoughts on English Literacy and Popular Culture in South Korea

D. Elizabeth Cohen discusses how teaching with media from YouTube can be a force for literacy and internationalization in South Korea.
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“Faces of Hong Kong”: My City? My Home?

“Faces of Hong Kong”: My City? My Home?

The Hong Kong government has been saying that local people have a strong sense of belonging in this so-called “Asia’s World City.” Believe it or not? A promotional video featuring an old district in Hong Kong will tell you more.
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Julie D’Acci on the Emergent Qualities of Sublimating Circuits

February 18, 2014
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Julie D’Acci on the Emergent Qualities of Sublimating Circuits

Does circulating information influence, inflect, or inhibit material relations in empirically verifiable ways? And do strategic interventions in the super-structural sphere actually promote sustainable social effects?
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The Aesthetic Turn: How Media Translate, or, Why Do I Like Chase Scenes?

November 6, 2013
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The Aesthetic Turn: How Media Translate, or, Why Do I Like Chase Scenes?

In this latest entry in The Aesthetic Turn series, Kyle Conway considers the aesthetic experience of media, using translation and metaphor to turn our attention away from the object and toward our experience of media in the age of convergence.
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The Aesthetic Turn: Cultural Studies and the Question of Aesthetic Experience

October 23, 2013
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The Aesthetic Turn: Cultural Studies and the Question of Aesthetic Experience

In this inaugural post in Antenna's new series on cultural studies and media aesthetics, "The Aesthetic Turn," Kyle Conway queries media's experiential dimensions.
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Cultural Studies, TV Studies, & Empathy

December 3, 2012
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Cultural Studies, TV Studies, & Empathy

What could cultural studies work on TV look like if we saw our function as facilitating conversations among our students (and ourselves) about social identity, privilege, and power centered on their and our differing engagements with and feelings about television programming?
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Klosterman, philosophy and cultural studies: An audio interview

May 4, 2012
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Klosterman, philosophy and cultural studies: An audio interview

An audio interview with Chuck Klosterman, accompanied by a discussion of how his work not only blurs things that us cultural studies professors celebrate by taking “low” culture seriously, but also in a way that inevitably makes us nervous.
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