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Ted Friedman / Georgia State University - Atlanta

Ted Friedman is Associate Professor of Communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture (NYU Press, 2005), which traces the struggles to define the meanings and uses of computers from Charles Babbage’s difference engine to Napster, Linux, and blogs. He is currently working on a book on the politics of Hollywood during the Bush years. His writing on culture, politics and technology has been published in alt.culture, Bad Subjects, Blender, Communication Research, Critical Studies in Media Communication, CyberSociety, Details, Encyclopedia of New Media, First Monday, Nadine, On a Silver Platter, Radio On, SimCity: Mappando la Citta Virtuali, The Source, Spin, Stim, and Vibe. His website is https://www.tedfriedman.com.

Vertigo
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University

September 19, 2009 Ted Friedman / Georgia State University - Atlanta 5 comments

A personal account of the relationship between Buddhism and Postmodernism.

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Myth, the Numinous, and Cultural Studies
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta

August 6, 2009 Ted Friedman / Georgia State University - Atlanta 17 comments

A renewal of interest in the concept of myth in cultural studies, tracing its journey from academic hot topic through new age buzz word towards a popular culture understanding of the term.

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Tweeting the Dialectic of Technological Determinism 
 Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta  

June 27, 2009 Ted Friedman / Georgia State University - Atlanta 8 comments

A skeptical look at the technological determinism at work in American perceptions of the effects of Twitter on the recent Iranian conflict.

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Jung and Lost
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta  

May 1, 2009 Ted Friedman / Georgia State University - Atlanta 9 comments

Friedman applies the theoretical work of Carl Jung to the popular television drama Lost.

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Strat-O-Matic and the Baseball Tarot: Sense and Synchronicity in Sports and Games
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta

February 20, 2009 Ted Friedman / Georgia State University - Atlanta 12 comments

A look at chance in Strat-O-Matic baseball, and what it has to tell us about gameplay in general.

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The Play Paradigm: What Media Studies Can Learn from Game Studies
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University, Atlanta

December 1, 2008 Ted Friedman / Georgia State University - Atlanta 4 comments

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In "Welcome to Wrexham and Representations of Management in Football (Soccer) as a Product of the “Media Sports Cultural Complex”" Andrew Stubbs-Lacy explores representation & construction of management in football with a focus on Welcome to Wrexham. Read: http://tinyurl.com/4z7wkuk8

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