Author: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
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Equestria Girls: A Reaction to the Film
After a summer spent learning about, reading about, and writing about it, I finally tonight sat down and watched My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Equestria Girls. Given that I will be presenting on the topic of fractured fandom surrounding this movie’s marketing and release, I wanted to form my own opinion on the movie.…
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What Women Don’t Want — LadyBits on Medium
What Women Don’t Want — LadyBits on Medium — Medium. So here we have another wonderful breakdown of a breakdown in the progress of bringing women across gendered lines. This summer — and maybe even this year thus far — has been one in which we really start to address the realities of what has…
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From Jezebel: DC Comics Contest: Draw a Naked Woman Committing Suicide
Seriously, just what is wrong with DC lately? Have the editors in charge taken leave of their senses? Has the success of Marvel as of late completely rattled them? First the horrendous sexualization of women in the New 52 (and everything else idiotic since then). Then the horrendous death of Lois Lane to spur a…
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Steve Benford and Inhabited TV: The beginnings of VWTV Part 2
Pooky Amsterdam’s interview with a VWTV pioneer concludes with this second part. And it raises the question: how likely is the virtual and the real to converge to produce television? How likely are regular television consumers going to be persuaded to become television producers? Steve Benford and Inhabited TV: The beginnings of VWTV Part 2.
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Steve Benford and Inhabited TV: The beginnings of VWTV
Pooky Amsterdam reports on a conversation she had with someone who might just be one of the pioneers of virtual world television. Steve Benford was part of a research project in the United Kingdom who worked on merging virtual reality, virtual worlds, and television at the turn of the century. Their work on “inhabited TV”…
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Affordances & Constraints Communication Model
At my university, we are moving towards more technologically enhanced teaching and learning. Along with my colleague from the School of Education, I am helping to oversee the faculty development of online and blended instruction. We are working on ways to better improve our courses’ universal design, such as through multimedia presentations. The goal is…
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VWTV Beyond Second Life: Pooky and Habbo Hotel
This week’s virtual world television focus is on Pooky Amsterdam’s formative experiences in the virtual world Habbo Hotel (or so it was called at the time). Producing in that virtual world helped shape her thoughts on VWTV and become the producer in Second Life she is today. via VWTV Beyond Second Life: Pooky and Habbo Hotel.
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