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Another Ignorant Schoolmaster: The Common Craft Show
Curator's NoteThe Common Craft Show is a monthly series of short explanatory videos produced by Lee and Sachi LeFever, available on blip.tv and Youtube.com. Their stated goal is to introduce simple...
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Voting for Super Bullshit on Super Tuesday
Curator's NoteIn honor of Super Tuesday. Famed parodist-satirist The Onion, has recently started offering video clips. As in this clip, the impersonation of actual news can be so deftly performed that...
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What Role for Government TV in Community Life?
Curator's NoteAs newspapers (the traditional media outlet that has sustained local civic life) slowly die, the following question seems ever more pressing—is it possible for citizens to know their...
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Queer, There, Everywhere: Buying & Selling Citizenship on Gay Narrowcast TV
Curator's NoteIn looking for instances of sexual and political agency, queer media criticism often champions offbeat or unusual texts and practices. Another critical impulse is to use the “gentle...
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Latinos and DTV: A Spanish-language PSA Informs the Transition
Curator's NoteOn March 22, 2008, Univision aired a half-hour special titled “TV Digital: ¿Cuánto Sabes?” in which popular TV show host Cristina Saralegui interviewed the President and CEO of the...
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The Inadequately Violent State?
Curator's NoteIn this clip from A Wednesday (Neeraj Pandey, 2008), Naseeruddin Shah portrays a "stupid common man" who takes the law into his own hands, planting bombs in the city of Bombay in order to...
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The Politics of the "Same Level Playing Field": Race, Citizenship, and Net...
Curator's NoteIf you attend a media reform event, there is a good chance you’ll hear the slogan, “if you’re first issue is x (racism, sexism, pacifism, environmentalism, etc), your second issue should...
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Taking Stock & Giving Back: Citizenship in Hannah Montana Forever
Curator's NoteIn the early episodes of the current and final season of Disney’s Hannah Montana, now optimistically referred to as Hannah Montana Forever, Miley Stewart (played by Miley Cyrus) outdoes...
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Using Critical Media Literacy to Empower Inclusive and Active Voices in Daily...
Curator's NoteIn 2008, scholar Lance W. Bennett posited a new dichotomy for thinking about citizenship and civic learning in an increasingly digital age. Bennett theorized the difference between the...
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Curing Vision
Curator's NoteOn 12 July 2010, two Russian art curators were found guilty and convicted of the crime of “inciting religious hatred” at the Tagansky District Court in Moscow. The nature of their...
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