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Surveillance and Disinformation
Hacked: Nadia El Fani’s “Bedwin Hacker”
Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi(0)
May 19, 2012
Considering Bedwin Hacker’s take on immigration as a degenerative form of cultural invasion, and hacking as a destructive form of vandalism against intellectual property or terrorism against the state.
God is Watching, and So Am I: The Theology of Surveillance
Randy Lewis/University of Texas
Sacred security, Homeland Security, and the creeping militarization of the American church.
American Dreams – Israeli Formats: How Israeli TV Became a U.S. Success Story
Sharon Shahaf / Georgia State University
Considering the politics inherent within the current wave of U.S. adaptations of Israeli-based television series.
Subaquatic Frames
Nicole Starosielski / Miami University
Tracking the origins of the cinematic framing of undersea environments in order to draw attention to the historical specificity of this view.
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Scott Webel / Museum of Ephemerata - Collecting the Trash: The Cult of the Ephemeral Clip from VHS to YouTube
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Heather McIntosh / Boston College - “Who Gon Check Me Boo”: Reality TV as a Haven For Black Women’s Affect
Kristen Warner / University of Alabama - Mining Collective Memory: Fairytales grow up, take their shirts off
Camille DeBose / DePaul University - Sarah, Scarlett, and Norma Rae, or Unions are as American as Apple Pie!
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Steven Boyer / University of Glasgow - Bootleg Archives: Notes on BitTorrent Communities and Issues of Access
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