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Audiovisuality and the Media Swirl: Campaign 2016
Carol Vernallis / Stanford University

October 25, 2016 Carol Vernallis / Stanford University 2 comments

Carol Vernallis investigates the state of campaign music in the 2016 Presidential election, asking why is there so little musically or audiovisually rich content this cycle?

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TV Finales: Rethinking the Cliffhanger
Casey McCormick / McGill University

October 24, 2016 Casey McCormick / McGill University 6 comments

Casey McCormick analyzes the relationship of the season finale cliffhanger to the economic, formal, and fandom elements of television, focusing in particular on the season 6 finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead.

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#TrumpIsRight: The Paradox of Digital Database Histories and Collective Memory
Eric Hahn / New York University

October 24, 2016 Eric Hahn / New York University 3 comments

Eric Hahn explores how user-generated digital databases complicate our understanding of the nature of reportage, history, and news coverage.

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“Always Off” Connection
Germaine Halegoua / University of Kansas

October 24, 2016 Germaine Halegoua / University of Michigan One comment

Germaine Halegoua explores the under-investigated networks within infrastructure studies: networks of “always off” connection that are purposefully constructed as dark or inactive.

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Bunker Mentality: Fortified Domesticity and the “Crazy Prepper” in 10 Cloverfield Lane
Greg Clinton | Stony Brook University

October 24, 2016 Greg Clinton / Stony Brook University 2 comments

Greg Clinton considers apocalyptic futures, survivalism, and “crazy preppers” as responses to changing social mores through 10 Cloverfield‘s representation of bunkers as fortified domestic spaces.

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To See and Not to See: Racial Economies of Visibility and Invisibility
Roopali Mukherjee / CUNY, Queens College

October 22, 2016 Roopali Mukherjee / Queens College 4 comments

Roopali Mukherjee discusses racial (in)visibility and the modern technical malfunctions that misidentify people of color while organizing and reifying powerful epidermal schema of differentiation and discrimination.

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