Recent Posts
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Popcorn Moms: Decoding Representations of Motherhood in American Popular Cinema, 1979-1989
“Popcorn Moms” is a socio-historical analysis of the ways American commercial cinema represented motherhood in the 1980s.
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Experiments in Corporate Collaboration: The Case of the Arts Electronica FutureLab
he AEC is devising a strategy for cultivating industry partnerships based on the FutureLab’s experiments in corporate collaboration to date which have been successful namely because they are focused on mutually beneficial outcomes.
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Mask or Closet, or, “Under the Hood”: Metaphors and Representations of Homosexuality in American Superhero Comics After 1985
An examination of the changing representation of male homosexuality in American superhero comics between the years 1986 and 2003.
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Tensions in Live-Action Roleplaying Game Design: A Case Study with the MIT Assassins’ Guild
An analysis of the MIT Assassins’ Guild Live-Action Roleplaying games, providing five kinds of tensions in the design and the implementation of mechanics.
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Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning
In “Defining Reality”, Schiappa shows the act of defining to be a specialized and learned behavior, and therefore one that can be studied and improved.
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Bilingual By Design: A Design Study of Toy Design and Material Play Culture for Children Bilingual in French and English
The design of bilingual talking toys and their potential uses in the bilingual family.
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We Are Like This Only: Desis and Hindi Films in the Diaspora
A theoretical framework and a set of analytical tools that might help us understand how Hindi films are watched in the Indian-American diaspora.