Content tagged "culture"
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Mimi Ito, “Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World”
Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture came to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad.
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Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, Mimi Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
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Podcast: John Bryant, “Revision, Culture, and the Machine: How Digital Makes Us Human”
John Bryant on revision studies, adaptation, translation, creativity, appropriation, and cultural difference in the ethics and editing of revision.
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Podcast: “Media in Transition 7: Archives and Cultural Memory”
Does it still make sense to distinguish the roles of museums, galleries, and spaces for exhibition from those of archives and repositories?
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(Face)book of the Dead
In the Age of Always Connect, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? Are social networks its vectors of transmission? Is this the “Death of Shame”?
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Cultural Politics of the South Asian Diaspora: Popular Cultural Responses to the “War on Terror”
Rajini Srikanth and Vijay Prashad discuss two South Asian popular cultural responses to 9-11 and ‘the war on terror’: M.I.A.’s ‘Born Free’ music video, and the Bollywood film ‘My Name is Khan’.
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Podcast: Nitin Sawhney, “Media and Resilience: Creative DIY Cultures and Civic Agency among Marginalized Youth”
Nitin Sawhney on youth digital storytelling in the West Bank and Gaza and participatory media for resilience and civic agency among youth in conflict.
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Why We Sing: An Ode to Our Musical Origins
A report from the front lines of research into the origins of human music, presenting four popular scenarios for the source of music.
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Video: Participatory Culture: International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture, moderated by Ian Condry
The fourth panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary symposium.
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Implanted: Technology and Connection in the Deaf World
Implant engineers, audiologists, bioethicists, and deaf individuals on the changing and diverse reactions of the deaf community to chochlear implants.
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ROFLCon
Sponsored in part by CMS, ROFLCon is “Two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled.”
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Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: “International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture”
Panelists: Aswin Punathambekar, Xiaochang Li, Ana Domb, Orit Kuritsky, and Jing Wang
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Jenkins’ Farewell
Henry Jenkins returns to talk about his scholarship on digital culture, founding Comparative Media Studies, and experiences as a teacher and housemaster.
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Interpreting Abstract Games: The Metaphorical Potential of Formal Game Elements
I develop methods for a critical method wherein games are considered to be metaphors. I conclude with a discussion of this method’s implications for game design and future game research.
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Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture
Jing Wang’s “detailed, penetrating, and up-to-date portrayal of branding and advertising in contemporary China.”
