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Author: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University

Living Life in TiVo Time

October 21, 2005 Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University 4 comments

by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
Robert Schrag examines how the proliferation of highly individualized and instantly gratifying technology like TiVo leads to the fracturing of various realities and interpersonal time and space.

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Digital: The Dark Side

June 10, 2005 Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University 3 comments

by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
How digital creative tools blur the lines between fantasy and reality, creation and cutting-and-pasting, and why that might not be such a good thing.

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Hegemony on a Hard Drive

April 1, 2005 Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University 4 comments

by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
Improving the relationship between the creative impulse and the digital environment.

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The Trunk in the Attic, or, Designing a Digital Legacy

February 4, 2005 Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University 5 comments

by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
Communication is, and always has been, a negotiation; technology and society parrying and thrusting, demand and counter, proposition and accommodation.

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Sculpting a Digital Language

December 3, 2004 Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University 3 comments

by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
A number of responses to my last Flow column wondered what form the “digital language” I advocated might take. The question took me back to a very non-digital experience.

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The Invasion of the Screen People

September 20, 2004 Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University 10 comments

by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
It was late summer in the Heartland. A simpler time, with only vague fears of Y2K troubling my anticipation of brisk breezes and the deepening color of autumn.

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Over*Flow: Responses to Breaking TV & Media News

Over*Flow: “'The Sun is Shining on AMC': Meme Stocks & (Temporary?) Media Industry Reorganization"
Peter Arne Johnson / Boston University


Over*Flow: "Watchmen Walked So That Lovecraft Country Could Run: The Jordan Peele Effect on TV's New Black Sci-fi"
Tia Alphonse / University of Missouri


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