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<p></p><p>8-Bit Porn: Atari After Dark

8-Bit Porn: Atari After Dark(13)

June 9, 2007

by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
While I am not the first enthusiast to sketch out the basic lineup of adult titles designed to play on 2600 consoles, what most of the fan sites do not consider is the role these games may have played in larger industrial and cultural discourses about gaming.

<p></p><p>Bringing the War Back Home: YouTube and Anti-War Street Theater

Bringing the War Back Home: YouTube and Anti-War Street Theater

by: Chuck Tryon / Fayetteville State University
A YouTube video of a street theater performance by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) raises questions about the representations of the war in Iraq as mediated by both the mainstream media and the more participatory video sharing sites.

<p></p><p>Feature Film: A ‘You Tube Narrative Model’?

Feature Film: A ‘You Tube Narrative Model’?

by: Alex Munt / Macquarie University
Munt explores Hollywood’s reaction to the popularity of YouTube and its emerging “Clip Culture”

<p></p><p> Glimpsing Utopia on <em>Lost</em>

Glimpsing Utopia on Lost

by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
What I felt in my bones when I watched this particular episode of Lost was a yearning for the collective life of the castaways. Whatever else happens, these people are in it together. When times are bad, they are bad for everyone. When times are good—like when Hurley liberates the
hatch’s food—they’re good for one and all alike.


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