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Archive for March, 2013
What Are You Missing? March 17-March 30
“Fell in Love with a Song”: Squaresville and the Intimate Collective
"You know how sometimes when you're really really focused...you forget that you're a person? You forget that anything exists at all?"
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Tornadoes and Meteors and Bombs, Oh My! — Queering Kansas in the Pictures
Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful, like The Wizard of Oz, represents Kansas monochromatically to highlight the queer and colorful world of Oz. But as far as Hollywood's concerned, it's Kansas that's queer.
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Roundtable (Part 2): Career Stages and Conferencing Strategies
In the second part of this series on conferencing strategies and SCMS, focus is given to guidance and advice from faculty at various stages of their career.
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Roundtable (Part 1): Career Stages and Conferencing Strategies
In the second part of this series on conferencing strategies and SCMS, focus is given to guidance and advice from graduate students at various stages of their education.
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The Cost of Interfaces
Boycotting Facebook is getting harder, particularly because of the complete invisibility and unawareness of the nature of the social networking site to its members.
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The Comics Arms Race and the Failure of Diversity
Retailer incentives like variant covers are nothing new, but are being emphasized strongly in today’s market.
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What Are You Missing? March 3-March 16
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Kickstarting Veronica Mars: A Moment in a Movement
Why kickstarting Veronica Mars was not simply a procedural act, but rather a social experience awakening, mobilizing and monetizing fan cultures in real time.
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Turning Twitter into Work: Digital Reporting at SCMS 2013
Reconsidering the delicate work of tweeting about others' scholarship, the necessity of establishing best practices for conference tweeting, and the value of digital labor.
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Changing the conversation, not just the games
Thoughts about the EA/HRC Full Spectrum mini-conference and LGBT representation in the gaming industry.
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What is the Media & Cultural Studies of the MOOC?
Amid the flurry of dialogue accumulating discursive authority as “The Year of the MOOC,” what is the contribution of the media and cultural studies scholar?
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Syllabus Fantasies
Why are syllabi going viral, and what does this tell us about the state of higher education?
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Berlinale 2013 Report: Part Two
The final installment of a two-part report on Berlinale 2013, paying particular attention to some of the less publicized, more experimental projects.
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Berlinale 2013 Report: Part One
Part one of a two-part report on Berlinale 2013, an extensive, well-organized, festival centered on the Potsdamer Platz.
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