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Bangor, Aaron W., and James T. Miller. "The Design and Presentation Order of Web Page Buttons." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 49, no. 15 (2005): 1449–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193120504901506.

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As part of a guidelines standardization effort, a company wanted to know what customers think a “good” button looks like for web sites. A study was conducted with 63 participants that had them rank-order four existing button designs and then asked follow-up questions about their preference for several button characteristics. Results show that participants preferred bold text for labels, dark characters on a lighter background, rounded corners, and the button and page background colors to be different. One of the four designs was preferred over the other three, even though it embodied only thre
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Ferguson, Shelagh, Jack Smith, and Janet Hoek. "An Analysis of Tobacco Placement in YouTube Cartoon Series The Big Lez Show." Nicotine & Tobacco Research 22, no. 4 (2019): 580–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntz051.

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Abstract Introduction Social media platforms such as YouTube provide largely unregulated opportunities for covert tobacco product placement that immerse viewers in evolving narratives and surrounding fan-created material. A Winfield Blues product placement appeared in series 3 of The Big Lez Show, a “crude comedy,” DIY animation web series that has garnered more than 70 million views. Methods We used a netnographic approach that adapts the traditional, in-person participant observation techniques of ethnography to investigate this online fan and associated paratexts, and conducted a frame-by-f
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Yi, We Jung. "Redrawing the Division Lines?" positions: asia critique 28, no. 4 (2020): 701–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8606404.

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This article examines Cold War icons transfigured in new media ecology by looking at the South Korean webtoon (web cartoon) Secretly, Greatly. In featuring the superfluous existence of kanch’ŏp (North Korean spies) dispatched to the South, the graphic narrative interweaves the legacy of national division with the sensibilities of the millennial generation. Feeling that their lives are rendered ingyŏ (surplus) under neoliberal governance, the precarious youth empathetically relate to the history-laden image of spies, whose belonging in society has been disavowed or forsaken. Appropriating earli
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Mosina, S. К. "CYBERDEMOCRACY: A NEW PHENOMENON IN SPANISH SOCIOLINGUISTICS." Title in english 17, no. 1 (2019): 108–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2019-1-17-108-119.

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Te article analyses ciberdemocracy as a new phenomenon that emerged in the Spanish society in the 21st century. Te development of digital technologies and ICT’s (in particular, Internet), which is substantiated by the statistics for the last decade provided by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics and the comparative analysis of data for 2008 and 2016, created new political instruments and means of getting ideas benefcial to certain political groups across to the electorate. Not only do linguists research into this phenomenon but also the Spanish Government. Te article presents characte
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Knott, Cynthia L., and G. Steube. "Student Perceptions Of Password Security And Maintenance." International Journal of Management & Information Systems (IJMIS) 16, no. 3 (2012): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/ijmis.v16i3.7071.

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Increasing concerns about security and privacy have raised the bar for interest in ways to protect information. Although newer approaches include face recognition, the use of passwords is commonly used today as the best approach for protecting data. Web sites, software programs, financial institutions universities, and many commercial stores are requiring that a password include the following attributes: consist of a fixed number of characters, include numbers and letters, special characters and lower and upper case letters. In addition, repetition of a password is not allowed, i.e. the update
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G, Maragatham, and Shobana Devi A. "Twitter Sentiment Analysis and Visualization Using Apache Spark and Elasticsearch." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 3.12 (2018): 314. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.12.16049.

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Sentiment analysis on Twitter data has paying more attention recently. The system’s key feature, is the immediate communication with other users in an easy, fast way and user-friendly too. Sentiment analysis is the process of identifying and classifying opinions or sentiments expressed in source text. There is a huge volume of data present in the web for internet users and a lot of data is generated per second due to the growth and advancement of web technology. Nowadays, Internet has become best platform to share everyone's opinion, to exchange ideas and to learn online. People are using soci
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Kumar, Mohinder, Manish Kumar Jindal, and Munish Kumar. "A Novel Attack on Monochrome and Greyscale Devanagari CAPTCHAs." ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing 20, no. 4 (2021): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3439798.

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The use of computer programs in breaching web site security is common today. CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) and human interaction proofs are the cost-effective solution to these kinds of computer attacks on web sites. These CAPTCHAs are available in many forms, such as those based on text, images and audio. A CAPTCHA must be secure enough that it cannot be broken by a computer program, and it must be usable enough that humans can easily understand it. The most popular is the text-based scheme. Most text-based CAPTCHAs are based on the Engli
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POPE, HARRISON G., MICHAEL B. POLIAKOFF, MICHAEL P. PARKER, MATTHEW BOYNES, and JAMES I. HUDSON. "Is dissociative amnesia a culture-bound syndrome? Findings from a survey of historical literature." Psychological Medicine 37, no. 2 (2006): 225–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291706009500.

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Background. Natural human psychological phenomena, such as depression, anxiety, delusions, hallucinations and dementia, are documented across the ages in both fictional and non-fictional works. We asked whether ‘dissociative amnesia’ was similarly documented throughout history.Method. We advertised in three languages on more than 30 Internet web sites and discussion groups, and also in print, offering US$1000 to the first individual who could find a case of dissociative amnesia for a traumatic event in any fictional or non-fictional work before 1800.Results. Our search generated more than 100
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SAKAMOTO, RYUUKI, YASUYUKI SUMI, and KIYOSHI KOGURE. "HYPERLINKED COMIC STRIPS FOR SHARING PERSONAL CONTEXTS." International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making 06, no. 03 (2007): 443–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219622007002563.

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Comic strips can be used as a style of visualization on a human–computer interface because they can represent a wide variety of affairs with contexts or time series. This paper describes two systems for sharing personal context as comic strips: ComicDiary and Comic-FOAF-Viewer. Both the systems depict personal experiences or profiles including personal relationships in their comic strips and hyperlinks among related comics based on other characters in the story. ComicDiary allegorizes individual episodes that happen during touring exhibitions by creating a comic from a user's touring records a
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Gaspar, Juliano De Souza, Eura Martins Lage, Fernando José Da Silva, et al. "A Mobile Serious Game About the Pandemic (COVID-19 - Did You Know?): Design and Evaluation Study." JMIR Serious Games 8, no. 4 (2020): e25226. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/25226.

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Background No treatment for COVID-19 is yet available; therefore, providing access to information about SARS-CoV-2, the transmission route of the virus, and ways to prevent the spread of infection is a critical sanitary measure worldwide. Serious games have advantages in the dissemination of reliable information during the pandemic; they can provide qualified content while offering interactivity to the user, and they have great reach over the internet. Objective This study aimed to develop a serious game with the purpose of providing science-based information on the prevention of COVID-19 and
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Morita, Takashi. "Design Issues on Context-Based Cartographic Communication Using Extended Visual Variables." Abstracts of the ICA 1 (July 15, 2019): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-259-2019.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Visual variables are the fundamental notion for the transcription of information or data into visual representation (Bertin, 1967). But if we introduce the notion of manipulation and communication of the visual representation, various situations will appear (Morita, 2011, 2018). Nowadays, we use many context-based cartographic communications in our information society using a network system, computer and mobile devices. In this context, information and communication are driven dynamically in response to the necessity of one’s activity in the real
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Flowers, Arhlene Ann. "Swine Semantics in U.S. Politics: Who Put Lipstick on the Pig?" M/C Journal 13, no. 5 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.278.

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Swine semantics erupted into a linguistic battle between the two U.S. presidential candidates in the 2008 campaign over a lesser-known colloquialism “lipstick on a pig” reference in a speech by then Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama. This resulted in the Republicans sparring with the Democrats over the identification of the “swine” in question, claiming “sexism” and demanding an apology on behalf of then Governor Sarah Palin, the first female Republican vice presidential candidate. The Republican Party, fearful of being criticised for its own sexist and racist views (Kuhn par. 1)
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Hill, Wes. "The Automedial Zaniness of Ryan Trecartin." M/C Journal 21, no. 2 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1382.

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IntroductionThe American artist Ryan Trecartin makes digital videos that centre on the self-presentations common to video-sharing sites such as YouTube. Named by New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl as “the most consequential artist to have emerged since the 1980s” (84), Trecartin’s works are like high-octane domestic dramas told in the first-person, blending carnivalesque and horror sensibilities through multi-layered imagery, fast-paced editing, sprawling mise-en-scène installations and heavy-handed digital effects. Featuring narcissistic young-adult characters (many of whom are played by the
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McGuire, Mark. "Ordered Communities." M/C Journal 7, no. 6 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2474.

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 A rhetoric of freedom characterises much of the literature dealing with online communities: freedom from fixed identity and appearance, from the confines of geographic space, and from control. The prevailing view, a combination of futurism and utopianism, is that the lack of order in cyberspace enables the creation of social spaces that will enhance personal freedom and advance the common good. Sherry Turkle argues that computer-mediated communication allows us to create a new form of community, in which identity is multiple and fluid (15-17). Marcos Novak celebrates the p
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"Multiclass Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Data using Neural Networks." International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology 9, no. 1S3 (2019): 57–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.35940/ijeat.a1012.1291s319.

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Sentiment analysis, also known as Opinion Mining is one of the hottest topic Nowadays. in various social networking sites is one of the hottest topic and field nowadays. Here, we are using Twitter, the biggest web destinations for people to communicate with each other to perform the sentiment analysis and opinion mining by extracting the tweets by various users. The users can post brief text updates in twitter as it only allows 140 characters in one text message. Hashtags helps to search for tweets dealing with the specified subject. In previous researches, binary classification usually relies
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Glover, Bridgette. "Alternative Pathway to Television: Negotiating Female Representation in Broad City’s Transition from YouTube to Cable." M/C Journal 20, no. 1 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1208.

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IntroductionFor both consumers and creators, Web series have been viewed for some time as an appealing alternative to television series. As Alice explains, creating content for the Web was once seen as “a last resort” for projects that were unable to secure funding for television production (59). However, the Web has, in recent years, become a “legitimized” space, allowing Web series to be considered a media platform capable of presenting narratives of various genres (Alice 59). Moreover, due to the lack of restrictions and overheads placed on Web producers, it is argued that there is more cap
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Losh, Elizabeth. "Artificial Intelligence." M/C Journal 10, no. 5 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2710.

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 On the morning of Thursday, 4 May 2006, the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held an open hearing entitled “Terrorist Use of the Internet.” The Intelligence committee meeting was scheduled to take place in Room 1302 of the Longworth Office Building, a Depression-era structure with a neoclassical façade. Because of a dysfunctional elevator, some of the congressional representatives were late to the meeting. During the testimony about the newest political applications for cutting-edge digital technology, the microphones periodically malfunctione
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Sigthorsson, Gauti. "Copy/Paste." M/C Journal 8, no. 3 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2360.

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 Plagiarism is wonderfully productive. It has spawned reams of policy documents, countless ‘model essay’ Web sites selling prefab or custom-written ‘examples’ of coursework, not to mention the database software used by universities to catch their clients and anyone else whose work presents a recurrence of a previously-seen paragraph, page or whole essay. That is not all. Plagiarism hearings at schools up and down the international educational hierarchy are a veritable job-creation scheme in themselves, now that every student’s first port of call when setting out on a resear
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May, Tom. "Use of Target Species in Citizen Science Fungi Recording Schemes." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5 (September 7, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.73960.

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Observational records of fungi by citizen scientists have mushroomed over the last three decades, especially those submitted via on-line platforms, increasingly accompanied by images. For example, Research Grade observations of Fungi in iNaturalist have increased from just over 5,000 for 2010 to more than 400,000 for 2020, with annual rates of increase of more than 60% in recent years. A feature of fungi records on platforms such as iNaturalist and Mushroom Observer is that the identification of numerous images remains unconfirmed. Of the more than 4 million observations of fungi in iNaturalis
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Bruns, Axel. "The n-Dimensional Village." M/C Journal 1, no. 4 (1998). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1723.

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These days, when we speak of the Internet, electronic networks, or computer-mediated communication (CMC) in general, the term 'cyberspace' all too readily presents itself as a blanket description of these communications systems. Without question it's an attractive and powerful metaphor -- and that "the way we think, what we experience, and what we do every day is very much a matter of metaphor" (Lakoff & Johnson 3) has by now been proven convincingly by the work of cognitive linguists. They have found that "metaphors serve to organise and interpret experience" (Closs Traugott 49), and so t
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Maguire, Emma. "Home, About, Shop, Contact: Constructing an Authorial Persona via the Author Website." M/C Journal 17, no. 3 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.821.

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Introduction Let me start by telling you about my “first-world problem”: I study girls’ autobiographical practice in digital spaces but the conceptual tools in my field have been developed chiefly in order to read and analyse printed books. Girls’ digital engagements with self-representation—such as web comics and blogs—are fascinating texts and I want to know what they can tell us about how girls’ written selves connect in complex ways to broader cultural constructions of girlhood. The Greek roots of the word autobiography autos, bios, and graphe (self, life, writing) inform the kinds of appr
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Drozdz, Maya. "Waiting for Instantaneity." M/C Journal 3, no. 3 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1848.

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In "Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!", Paul Virilio claims that telecommunications are ushering in the "invention of a perspective of real time" which results in "some kind of choking of the senses, a loss of control over reason". As users of this new technology, as the receptors of the stream of computer-mediated information, we need to figure out the terms and conditions of our acceptance of cyberspace as a space and realtime as a form of time, to understand the implications of this new mode of communication, for "no information exists without dis-information". In "Speed and Informat
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Lobato, Ramon, and James Meese. "Kittens All the Way Down: Cute in Context." M/C Journal 17, no. 2 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.807.

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This issue of M/C Journal is devoted to all things cute – Internet animals and stuffed toys, cartoon characters and branded bears. In what follows our nine contributors scrutinise a diverse range of media objects, discussing everything from the economics of Grumpy Cat and the aesthetics of Furbys to Reddit’s intellectual property dramas and the ethics of kitten memes. The articles range across diverse sites, from China to Canada, and equally diverse disciplines, including cultural studies, evolutionary economics, media anthropology, film studies and socio-legal studies. But they share a common
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Green, Lelia, and Carmen Guinery. "Harry Potter and the Fan Fiction Phenomenon." M/C Journal 7, no. 5 (2004). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2442.

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The Harry Potter (HP) Fan Fiction (FF) phenomenon offers an opportunity to explore the nature of fame and the work of fans (including the second author, a participant observer) in creating and circulating cultural products within fan communities. Matt Hills comments (xi) that “fandom is not simply a ‘thing’ that can be picked over analytically. It is also always performative; by which I mean that it is an identity which is (dis-)claimed, and which performs cultural work”. This paper explores the cultural work of fandom in relation to FF and fame. The global HP phenomenon – in which FF lists ar
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Bruner, Michael Stephen. "Fat Politics: A Comparative Study." M/C Journal 18, no. 3 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.971.

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Drawing upon popular magazines, newspapers, blogs, Web sites, and videos, this essay compares the media framing of six, “fat” political figures from around the world. Framing refers to the suggested interpretations that are imbedded in media reports (Entman; McCombs and Ghanem; Seo, Dillard and Shen). As Robert Entman explains, framing is the process of culling a few elements of perceived reality and assembling a narrative that highlights connections among them to promote a particular interpretation. Frames introduce or raise the salience of certain ideas. Fully developed frames typically perf
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Ruch, Adam, and Steve Collins. "Zoning Laws: Facebook and Google+." M/C Journal 14, no. 5 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.411.

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As the single most successful social-networking Website to date, Facebook has caused a shift in both practice and perception of online socialisation, and its relationship to the offline world. While not the first online social networking service, Facebook’s user base dwarfs its nearest competitors. Mark Zuckerberg’s creation boasts more than 750 million users (Facebook). The currently ailing MySpace claimed a ceiling of 100 million users in 2006 (Cashmore). Further, the accuracy of this number has been contested due to a high proportion of fake or inactive accounts. Facebook by contrast, claim
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Speakman, Blair Ian. "“Poor creature, trapped in existential solitude forever”: Gothic Dreams of the Uncanny, Repetition, Temporal Loops, and the Double in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina." M/C Journal 23, no. 1 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1642.

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IntroductionAccording to Sigmund Freud (A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 90), dreams can be seen as a “substitute for something else, unknown to the dreamer”. In Freud’s theory, dreams are regarded as a “depiction of the subconscious, a screen onto which the subconscious projects its suppressed desires and hallucinations about their fulfilment” (Khapaeva & Tweddle 6). It is likely due to these aspects that dreams and dreaming have become prevalent in contemporary literature, film and television, and an outlet for a greater examination of Freud’s work on the origins and nature of th
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Allatson, Paul. "The Virtualization of Elián González." M/C Journal 7, no. 5 (2004). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2449.

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For seven months in 1999/2000, six-year old Cuban Elián González was embroiled in a family feud plotted along rival national and ideological lines, and relayed televisually as soap opera across the planet. In Miami, apparitions of the Virgin Mary were reported after Elián’s arrival; adherents of Afro-Cuban santería similarly regarded Elián as divinely touched. In Cuba, Elián’s “kidnapping” briefly reinvigorated a torpid revolutionary project. He was hailed by Fidel Castro as the symbolic descendant of José Martí and Che Guevara, and of the patriotic rigour they embodied. Cubans massed to deman
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Lombard, Kara-Jane. "“To Us Writers, the Differences Are Obvious”." M/C Journal 10, no. 2 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2629.

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 Introduction It appears that graffiti has begun to clean up its act. Escalating numbers of mature graffiti writers feel the removal of their graffiti has robbed them of a history, and are turning to legal projects in an effort to restore it. Phibs has declared the graffiti underground “limited” and Kano claims its illegal aspect no longer inspires him (Hamilton, 73). A sign of the times was the exhibition Sake of Name: Australian Graffiti Now which opened at the Wharf 2 Theatre in January 2001. The exhibition was commissioned by the Sydney Theatre Company and comprised twe
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Busse, Kristina, and Shannon Farley. "Remixing the Remix: Fannish Appropriation and the Limits of Unauthorised Use." M/C Journal 16, no. 4 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.659.

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In August 2006 the LiveJournal (hereafter LJ) community sga_flashfic posted its bimonthly challenge: a “Mission Report” challenge. Challenge communities are fandom-specific sites where moderators pick a theme or prompt to which writers respond and then post their specific fan works. The terms of this challenge were to encourage participants to invent a new mission and create a piece of fan fiction in the form of a mission report from the point of view of the Stargate Atlantis team of explorers. As an alternative possibility, and this is where the trouble started, the challenge also allowed to
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Ensminger, David Allen. "Populating the Ambient Space of Texts: The Intimate Graffiti of Doodles. Proposals Toward a Theory." M/C Journal 13, no. 2 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.219.

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In a media saturated world, doodles have recently received the kind of attention usually reserved for coverage of racy extra marital affairs, corrupt governance, and product malfunction. Former British Prime Minister Blair’s private doodling at a World Economic Forum meeting in 2005 raised suspicions that he, according to one keen graphologist, struggled “to maintain control in a confusing world," which infers he was attempting to cohere a scattershot, fragmentary series of events (Spiegel). However, placid-faced Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, who sat nearby, actually scrawled the doodles. In this
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Allen, Rob. "Lost and Now Found: The Search for the Hidden and Forgotten." M/C Journal 20, no. 5 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1290.

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The Digital TurnMuch of the 19th century disappeared from public view during the 20th century. Historians recovered what they could from archives and libraries, with the easy pickings-the famous and the fortunate-coming first. Latterly, social and political historians of different hues determinedly sought out the more hidden, forgotten, and marginalised. However, there were always limitations to resources-time, money, location, as well as purpose, opportunity, and permission. 'History' was principally a professionalised and privileged activity dominated by academics who had preferential access
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Brabazon, Tara. "A Red Light Sabre to Go, and Other Histories of the Present." M/C Journal 2, no. 4 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1761.

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If I find out that you have bought a $90 red light sabre, Tara, well there's going to be trouble. -- Kevin Brabazon A few Saturdays ago, my 71-year old father tried to convince me of imminent responsibilities. As I am considering the purchase of a house, there are mortgages, bank fees and years of misery to endure. Unfortunately, I am not an effective Big Picture Person. The lure of the light sabre is almost too great. For 30 year old Generation Xers like myself, it is more than a cultural object. It is a textual anchor, and a necessary component to any future history of the present. Revelling
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Panek, Elliot. "Creative Communities after Television: The Collective Authorship of Channel 101." M/C Journal 9, no. 2 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2615.

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The recent proliferation of the video shorts on the Internet may provide a glimpse of the future of production and distribution of motion pictures. One such short, Lazy Sunday, was produced by cast members of the long-running network television program Saturday Night Live. Cast member Andy Samberg had come to the attention of network producers when they saw several comedy sketches he produced and starred in on the Internet. The popularity of Samberg’s original online-distributed videos did not occur strictly as the result of the virus-like linking and e-mailing distribution pattern that is qui
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Mallan, Kerry Margaret, and Annette Patterson. "Present and Active: Digital Publishing in a Post-print Age." M/C Journal 11, no. 4 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.40.

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At one point in Victor Hugo’s novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the archdeacon, Claude Frollo, looked up from a book on his table to the edifice of the gothic cathedral, visible from his canon’s cell in the cloister of Notre Dame: “Alas!” he said, “this will kill that” (146). Frollo’s lament, that the book would destroy the edifice, captures the medieval cleric’s anxiety about the way in which Gutenberg’s print technology would become the new universal means for recording and communicating humanity’s ideas and artistic expression, replacing the grand monuments of architecture, human engineer
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Pausé, Cat, and Sandra Grey. "Throwing Our Weight Around: Fat Girls, Protest, and Civil Unrest." M/C Journal 21, no. 3 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1424.

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This article explores how fat women protesting challenges norms of womanhood, the place of women in society, and who has the power to have their say in public spaces. We use the term fat as a political reclamation; Fat Studies scholars and fat activists prefer the term fat, over the normative term “overweight” and the pathologising term “obese/obesity” (Lee and Pausé para 3). Who is and who isn’t fat, we suggest, is best left to self-determination, although it is generally accepted by fat activists that the term is most appropriately adopted by individuals who are unable to buy clothes in any
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Cover, Rob. "Reading the Remix: Methods for Researching and Analysing the Interactive Textuality of Remix." M/C Journal 16, no. 4 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.686.

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IntroductionWith the proliferation of remixed (audio-visual) texts such as fan music videos, slash video, mash-ups and digital stories utilising existing and new visual and audio material on sites such as YouTube, questions are opened as to the efficacy of current forms of media textual analysis. Remixed texts have been positioned as a new and transformative form of art that, despite industry copyright concerns, do not compete with existing texts but makes use of them as ‘found material’ in order to produce an ostensibly intertextual experience (Lessig). Intertexts include pastiche, parody and
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Zienkiewicz, Joanna. "“The Right Can’t Meme”: Transgression and Dissimulation in the Left Unity Memeolution of PixelCanvas." M/C Journal 23, no. 3 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1661.

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Disclaimer: The situation on PixelCanvas is constantly changing due to raids from both sides. The figures in this article represent the state as of April 2020. In the politicized digital environment, the superiority of the alt-right’s weaponization of memes is often taken for granted. As summarized in the buzzword-phrase “the left can’t meme”, the digital engagements of self-identified leftist activists are usually seen as less effective than the ones of the right: their attempts at utilizing Internet culture described as too “politically correct” and “devoid of humour”. This supposedly “immut
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Conti, Olivia. "Disciplining the Vernacular: Fair Use, YouTube, and Remixer Agency." M/C Journal 16, no. 4 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.685.

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Introduction The research from which this piece derives explores political remix video (PRV), a genre in which remixers critique dominant discourses and power structures through guerrilla remixing of copyrighted footage (“What Is Political Remix Video?”). Specifically, I examined the works of political video remixer Elisa Kreisinger, whose queer remixes of shows such as Sex and the City and Mad Men received considerable attention between 2010 and the present. As a rhetoric scholar, I am attracted not only to the ways that remix functions discursively but also the ways in which remixers are con
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Hill, Benjamin Mako. "Revealing Errors." M/C Journal 10, no. 5 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2703.

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 Introduction
 
 In The World Is Not a Desktop, Marc Weisner, the principal scientist and manager of the computer science laboratory at Xerox PARC, stated that, “a good tool is an invisible tool.” Weisner cited eyeglasses as an ideal technology because with spectacles, he argued, “you look at the world, not the eyeglasses.” Although Weisner’s work at PARC played an important role in the creation of the field of “ubiquitous computing”, his ideal is widespread in many areas of technology design. Through repetition, and by design, technologies blend into our lives. W
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Kellner, Douglas. "Engaging Media Spectacle." M/C Journal 6, no. 3 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2202.

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In the contemporary era, media spectacle organizes and mobilizes economic life, political conflict, social interactions, culture, and everyday life. My recently published book Media Spectacle explores a profusion of developments in hi-tech culture, media-driven society, and spectacle politics. Spectacle culture involves everything from film and broadcasting to Internet cyberculture and encompasses phenomena ranging from elections to terrorism and to the media dramas of the moment. For ‘Logo’, I am accordingly sketching out briefly a terrain I probe in detail in the book from which these exampl
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Piatti-Farnell, Lorna, and Erin Mercer. "Gothic: New Directions in Media and Popular Culture." M/C Journal 17, no. 4 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.880.

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In a field of study as well-established as the Gothic, it is surprising how much contention there is over precisely what that term refers to. Is Gothic a genre, for example, or a mode? Should it be only applicable to literary and film texts that deal with tropes of haunting and trauma set in a gloomy atmosphere, or might it meaningfully be applied to other cultural forms of production, such as music or animation? Can television shows aimed at children be considered Gothic? What about food? When is something “Gothic” and when is it “horror”? Is there even a difference? The Gothic as a phenomeno
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Murray, Simone. "Harry Potter, Inc." M/C Journal 5, no. 4 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1971.

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Engagement in any capacity with mainstream media since mid-2001 has meant immersion in the cross-platform, multimedia phenomenon of Harry Potter: Muggle outcast; boy wizard; corporate franchise. Consumers even casually perusing contemporary popular culture could be forgiven for suspecting they have entered a MÃbius loop in which Harry Potter-related media products and merchandise are ubiquitous: books; magazine cover stories; newspaper articles; websites; television specials; hastily assembled author biographies; advertisements on broadcast and pay television; children's merchandising; and the
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Zuvela, Danni. "An Interview with the Makers of Value-Added Cinema." M/C Journal 6, no. 3 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2183.

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Things would never be the same again. As sales went through the roof, with some breathless estimates in the region of a 200% increase overnight, marketers practically wet their pants at the phenomenal success of the chocolate bar seen by millions in ET: the Extraterrestrial. That was back in 1982. Though not the first instance of product placement ‘at the movies’, the strategic placement of Reese’s Pieces in ET is often hailed as the triumphant marketing moment heralding the onset of the era of embedded advertising in popular media. Today, much media consumption is characterised by aggressive
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Cook, Jackie. "Lovesong Dedications." M/C Journal 5, no. 6 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2005.

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Song dedications are among commercial radio’s most enduring formats. Yet those very few studies which address music radio rarely consider its role within a consumer economy. As John Patrick noted when analysing ABC broadcaster Christopher Lawrence’s popular (and commercially exploited) Swoon genre as a form of nostalgic Utopianism, many music analysts view music listening as constructing a cultural space of other times and places, when romantic love held sway, when the certainties of religion vanquished doubt, and when authentic folk culture gave a sense of belonging to traditional ways of thi
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Knowles, Claire Elizabeth. "A Woman’s Place Is in the Morgue: Understanding Scully in the Context of 1990s Feminism." M/C Journal 21, no. 5 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1465.

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SCULLY: I said, I got the lab to rush the results of the Szczesny autopsy, if you're interested.MULDER: I heard you, Scully.SCULLY: And Szczesny did indeed drown, but not as the result of the inhalation of ectoplasm as you so vehemently suggested.MULDER: Well, what else could she possibly have drowned in?SCULLY: Margarita mix, upchucked with about 40 ounces of Corcovado Gold tequila which, as it turns out, she and her friends rapidly consumed in the woods while trying to reenact the Blair Witch Project.MULDER: Well, I think that demands a little deeper investigation, don't you?SCULLY: No, I do
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Gorman-Murray, Andrew. "Imagining King Street in the Gay/Lesbian Media." M/C Journal 9, no. 3 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2632.

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 Imagining Sydney’s Sexual Geography through the Gay/Lesbian Media
 
 As a cultural geographer I am interested in how the identities of places are imagined in popular culture. Places do not exist a priori, but are constructed through social and cultural processes (Anderson and Gale). This does not simply refer to how built environments are materialized through planning and building, but rather elicits the way places are represented through maps, film, literature, art, and, of crucial importance in contemporary society, a range of media sources, including newspaper
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Polain, Marcella Kathleen. "Writing with an Ear to the Ground: The Armenian Genocide's "Stubborn Murmur"." M/C Journal 16, no. 1 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.591.

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1909–22: Turkey exterminated over 1.5 million of its ethnically Armenian, and hundreds of thousands of its ethnically Greek and Assyrian, citizens. Most died in 1915. This period of decimation in now widely called the Armenian Genocide (Balakian 179-80).1910: Siamanto first published his poem, The Dance: “The corpses were piled as trees, / and from the springs, from the streams and the road, / the blood was a stubborn murmur.” When springs run red, when the dead are stacked tree-high, when “everything that could happen has already happened,” then time is nothing: “there is no future [and] the
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