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Armengol, Josep. "Sex and Text: Queering Older Men’s Sexuality in Contemporary U.S. Fiction." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 826. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3018.

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Abstract This paper will explore the representation of men’s aging experiences in contemporary U.S. fiction. While most gender-ed approaches to aging have focused on women, which has contributed to the cultural invisibility of older men, this study focuses on men’s aging experiences as men, thus challenging the inverse correlation between masculinity and aging. To do so, the study draws on a selected number of contemporary U.S. male-authored fictional works, which question the widely-held assumption that aging is a lesser concern for men, or that men and women’s aging experiences may be simply

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Geybels, Lindsey. "Shuffling Softly, Sighing Deeply: A Digital Inquiry into Representations of Older Men and Women in Literature for Different Ages." Social Sciences 12, no. 3 (2023): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12030112.

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When gender is brought into concerns about older people, the emphasis often lies on stereotypes connected to older women, and few comparative studies have been conducted pertaining to the representation of the intersection between older age and gender in fiction. This article argues that not only children’s literature, traditionally considered to be a carrier of ideology, plays a large part in the target readership’s age socialization, but so do young adult and adult fiction. In a large corpus of 41 Dutch books written for different ages, the representation of older men and women is studied th

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Marín Prada, María del Carmen, Nayra Condori-Villca, Francisco Gutiérrez Garcia, et al. "Chronic kidney disease and its risk stratification in Cuba." Data & Metadata 2 (June 12, 2023): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.56294/dm202349.

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Introduction: Epidemiological risk stratification in health is a tool effective in identifying where the main problems lie in a program health, to distribute resources where they are most needed. kidney disease chronic is a metabolic endocrine syndrome, brings disability to people whosuffer, has become one of the main causes of death in the world, in our country has seen an increase in the last ten years. Objective: Stratify mortality with CKD in Cuba and characterize some sociovariables demographics from 2011-2020.Method: The universe consisted of 35031 deceased with CKD in Cuba, percentages,

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Giambra, Leonard M., and Alicia Grodsky. "The Influence of Age on the Frequency of Spontaneous Task-Unrelated Thought Intrusions during Reading." Imagination, Cognition and Personality 11, no. 4 (1992): 367–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/7xf1-7ra4-vc95-qk5h.

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The frequency of spontaneous task-unrelated images and thoughts (TUITs) during reading was determined in an adult life span sample ( n = 121, 18–79 years old) to examine the generality of Giambra's finding of reduced TUTT frequency with increased age using a nonsemantic task (vigilance) [1]. Hasher and Zacks have predicted an increase in TUITs based upon a postulated reduced inhibition of off-goal path thoughts into working memory in older adults during text processing and comprehension [2]. In this study, each subject recorded spontaneous and deliberate TUITs while reading four non-fiction pa

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Prina, A. Matthew, Yu-Tzu Wu, Carolina Kralj, et al. "Dependence- and Disability-Free Life Expectancy Across Eight Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A 10/66 Study." Journal of Aging and Health 32, no. 5-6 (2019): 401–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0898264319825767.

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Objective: The objective of this study was to estimate healthy life expectancies in eight low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), using two indicators: disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and dependence-free life expectancy (DepFLE). Method: Using the Sullivan method, healthy life expectancy was calculated based on the prevalence of dependence and disability from the 10/66 cohort study, which included 16,990 people aged 65 or above in China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, India, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, and country-specific life tables from the World Population Prospects 2017.

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Rodríguez Maceo, Richard Virgilio, María Dolores Malfrán García, and Germán Del Río Caballero. "Coinfection by Hepatitis B and C virus in people with HIV. Santiago de Cuba 1986-2020." Health Leadership and Quality of Life 2 (December 30, 2023): 217. https://doi.org/10.56294/hl2023217.

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Introduction: In the devastating context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, co-infection with hepatitis B and C viruses has become a re-emerging problem, with insufficiently characterized epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic implications. Aim: To characterize people with HIV co-infected by hepatitis B and C viruses according to clinical and epidemiological variables of interest.Methods: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out with the aim of characterizing people with HIV co-infected by hepatitis B and C viruses, from 1986 to 2020, according to clinical and epidemiolog

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Taylor, Cheryl. "‘To my brother’: Gay love and sex in Thea Astley’s novels and stories." Queensland Review 26, no. 2 (2019): 269–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.32.

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AbstractBeginning as early as A Descant for Gossips (1960), gay men and gay love come and go in Thea Astley’s prose oeuvre. The responses that these characters and this topic invite shift with point of view and under the impact of varied themes. Astley’s treatment refuses to be contained, either by traditional Catholic doctrines about sex or by Australia’s delay in decriminalising homosexual acts. Driven by love for her gay older brother Philip, whose death from cancer corresponded with her final allusions to gay love in The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow (1996), Astley’s only constant message

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P, Praba. "Problems in Women's Lives in Perumal Murugan's Short Stories." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-14 (2022): 21–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt224s143.

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Kongu regional-based literature types evolved because of R. Sanmmuga Sundaram. Further, another pioneer in this literature named Perumalmurugan has taken this to the next level. He has taken immense measures in order to bring down the socio-economically weaker women in the region. He is pointing out some of the reasons through his novels which act as a barrier to the growth of women is suppression from men, dowry, and child marriage. His novels reveal that even in the twentieth-century women leads sorrowful life. He described about how women is subjected to various unwanted situations such as

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Jewusiak, Jacob. "Queer Futures for an Aging Planet." Poetics Today 44, no. 1-2 (2023): 157–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10342141.

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Abstract Associated with disaster metaphors such as floods, avalanches, tsunamis, and icebergs, older people have come to take the symbolic form of the environmental impacts they are imagined causing. Yet even as older people are posited as the cause and imaginatively take the shape of the disaster, they are also registered as especially vulnerable to the effects of rising temperatures and extreme weather. While the tendency toward blame and care are not logically incompatible, this tension has resulted in a cultural narrative that fuels a deep sense of unfairness across generations. This arti

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Jaramillo, Joshua D., Nicholas A. Hakes, Lakshika Tennakoon, David Spain, and Joseph D. Forrester. "The “T’s” of snakebite injury in the USA: fact or fiction?" Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open 4, no. 1 (2019): e000374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2019-000374.

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BackgroundVenomous snakebites can result in serious morbidity and mortality. In the USA, the “T’s of snakebites” (testosterone, teasing, touching, trucks, tattoos & toothless (poverTy), Texas, tequila, teenagers, and tanks) originate from anecdotes used to colloquially highlight venomous snakebite risk factors. We performed an epidemiologic assessment of venomous snakebites in the USA with the objective of evaluating the validity of the “T’s of snakebites” at a national level.MethodsWe performed a retrospective analysis of the National Emergency Department Sample. Data from January 1, 2016

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Cartaya Quintero, Rocío, Adriel Brito Yera, Dairon Iglesias Guevara, Danae Pérez Santana, and Manuel Álvarez Gil. "Percepción de la imagen corporal y propensión a la vigorexia en un grupo de usuarios de gimnasios." QhaliKay. Revista de Ciencias de la Salud ISSN: 2588-0608 4, no. 3 (2020): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.33936/qkrcs.v4i3.2855.

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Los actuales cánones de belleza imponen al hombre fuerte y muscularmente definido como el ideal y motivan a muchos a practicar ejercicios de musculación. Esto puede asociarse a inconformidades con la percepción de la imagen corporal, que puede desencadenar vigorexia. En este sentido el objetivo del presente trabajo fue determinar la propensión a la vigorexia y la percepción de la imagen corporal en usuarios de dos gimnasios del consejo popular Versalles-Coronela del municipio La Lisa, Cuba. Para dar respuesta a este objetivo se realizó un estudio transversal, no probabilístico, descriptivo y d

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Dash, Sakti Sekhar. "Explorations in Ecocriticism: Reading the Select Novels of Cormac McCarthy in the Light of Anthropocentrism and Cartesian Thinking." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 2 (2020): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i2.10380.

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This study highlights the subtle and complex environmental ethic in Cormac McCarthy’s select novels. By delineating the relationships McCarthy’s characters have with non-human nature, an ecocritical analysis views their alienation as the result of their separation from nature. At the root of this alienation is an anthropocentric and mechanistic mode of thinking that is dominant in Western philosophy and that this study defines as Cartesian. While McCarthy’s environmentalist heroes are persecuted by Cartesian institutions and displaced from the land on which they have defined themselves and mad

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Jennings, Beverley, Daisy Powell, Sylvia Jaworska, and Holly Joseph. "A Corpus Study of English Language Exam Texts: Vocabulary Difficulty and the Impact on Students' Wider Reading (or Should Students be Reading More Texts by Dead White Men?)." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, February 15, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1331.

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AbstractStudents in England sit an important gateway examination in English at age 16. Major changes were made to this exam in 2017 resulting in more emphasis on the comprehension of unseen literary texts. This paper uses corpus linguistic methods to identify the kind of vocabulary encountered in these exam texts and compares it to the kind of vocabulary encountered in other sources of written language (classic literary fiction, biographies, poetry, etc.). Results showed vocabulary in the exam texts was typically low in frequency and that older literary fiction texts contained similar types of

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"Suicide In Cuba Over 60 Years Old 2015-2020." International Journal of Psychiatry 7, no. 1 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.33140/ijp.07.01.04.

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Introduction: In the world every year, 700,000 people die by suicide. In the Americas, self-inflicted injury varies by region in 19.7% in North America and 7.8% in Central America. In Cuba, suicide is the tenth cause of death. Aim: To characterize suicide mortality in Cuba in persons over 60 years of age 2015 - 2020. Method: A retrospective descriptive study was performed. The universe was all the records of death by suicide over 60 years old (y.o.) in the mortality databases of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) of Cuba, from 2015 to 2020. The variables studied were: sex, age, skin color,

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Chen, Ru, Jing Deng, Yao Sun, Dongxun Sun, Haibin Lu, and Guoqi Sima. "Reducible burden of laryngeal cancer in men aged 50 and older attributable to smoking and alcohol use: insights from the global burden of disease study 2021." Frontiers in Public Health 13 (June 9, 2025). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1577138.

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BackgroundSmoking, alcohol use, advanced age, and male gender are well-established risk factors for laryngeal cancer. As smoking and alcohol consumption are modifiable behaviors, the burden of laryngeal cancer attributable to these factors is potentially reducible. This study aims to quantify the global, regional and national burden of laryngeal cancer attributable to smoking and alcohol use in men aged 50 years and older, assess temporal trends from 1990 to 2021, and project the disease burden through 2040.MethodsThe burden of laryngeal cancer was assessed using data from the Global Burden of

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Daskalopoulou, Christina, Yu-Tzu Wu, William Pan, et al. "Factors related with sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity among low- and middle-income settings: the 10/66 DRG study." Scientific Reports 10, no. 1 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76575-4.

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AbstractSarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity research in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) is limited. We investigated sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity prevalence and sociodemographic, bio-clinical and lifestyle factors in LMICs settings. For the purposes of this study, the 10/66 Dementia Research Group follow-up wave information from individuals aged 65 and over in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Peru, Mexico, Puerto Rico, China, was employed and analysed (n = 8.694). Based on indirect population formulas, we calculated body fat percentage (%BF) and skeletal muscle mass index (SMI). Sarcopeni

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Quintana, Naya. "Complex Queries: Exploring Second Generation Cuban- American Identity in 'Her Mother's House'." September 30, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7159736.

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In current studies about the Cuban exilic condition in the United States, arguably one of the most influential monographs that touches on the topic is Gustavo Perez Firmat’s Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way. In this text, Firmat argues that there are distinctions between different generations of Cubans, the younger generation being ‘Cuban-bred Americans’ as opposed to being ‘American-born Cubans’.1 In his perspective, it is this second generation of Cubans that are incapable of engaging with or understanding the shift between Cuban culture and American c

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Davidson, Guy. "The Gay Novel and the Gay World." Journal of New Zealand Studies, NS26 (July 2, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.v0ins26.4840.

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In a recent review essay, J. Daniel Elam charts the emergence of “gay world literary fiction,” a subgenre of the category “world literature,” which over the last twenty years or so has become both a marketing strategy for publishers and a “disciplinary rallying point of literary criticism and the academic humanities.”[i] While Elam’s essay is implicitly underpinned by the usual disciplinary understanding of world literature (fiction from potentially anywhere in the globe, translated into English, and studied comparatively), its focus is narrowed to the “gay world” within the planetary world—a

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Vella, Ashleigh S., Rachel Visontay, Darren M. Lipnicki, et al. "The incidence of all‐cause dementia and Alzheimer’s disease from around the world: data from the COSMIC collaboration." Alzheimer's & Dementia 20, S7 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.087341.

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AbstractBackgroundHigh‐income countries (HICs) are over‐represented in current global dementia incidence rates, skewing estimates. Variance in diagnostic methods between HICs and low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) is speculated to contribute to the regional differences in rates. Cohort Studies of Memory in an International Consortium (COSMIC) offers a unique opportunity to address these research inequalities by harmonising data from international studies, including representation from LMICs. This study aimed to identify dementia incidence rates by age and sex in various regions worldwide

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Hackett, Lisa J., and Jo Coghlan. "Bubbles." M/C Journal 24, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2763.

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Welcome to the ‘bubbles’ issue of M/C Journal. When we first pitched the idea of ‘bubbles’ for an issue of M/C Journal it was 2019, several months before COVID-19 was identified in Wuhan, China, and the resulting pandemic that brought the term ‘bubble’ to prominence in ways we had not even imagined. Our pre-pandemic line of enquiry focussed on how bubbles manifested themselves within popular culture and society and how the media reported on these concepts. Thinking about bubbles from bubbly champagne to the ‘political bubble’ we asked researchers to think about the ephemeral nature of bubbles.

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Yanitsa, BuendiadeLlaca. "Reginistas." Database of Religious History, June 27, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12573402.

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The Reginista movement is a New Religious Movement that follow Antonio Velazco Piña's best-selling novel "Regina. Dos de Octubre no se olvida" as the basis for their believe system and organization. The Movement was officially formed when, after publishing the novel, Antonio Velasco Piña appointed seven women to start the "First Circle of Regina". The seven women, gathered in Aldea de los Reyes to commemorate Reginas sacrifice on October 2. Each of them, made the promise to recruit seven new women (total 49 new women) next year to make their circle bigger. In the fictional novel, Regina, the m

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Dudek, Debra, Madalena Grobbelaar, and Elizabeth Reid Boyd. "Wondering about a Love Literacy." M/C Journal 27, no. 4 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3073.

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Romancing the Fantasy: #Booklove TikTok has been credited with encouraging young readers to #booklove through its BookTok community. However, the BookTok “trend for ‘spicy’ (i.e. sexy) books has led to fears children may be reading titles with adult content” (Knight). To ascertain the tenor of the adult content in these sexy books, we analyse a popular BookTok novel known for its spicy sex scenes: A Court of Mist and Fury (ACOMAF), a novel by Sarah J. Maas, the “reigning queen of romantasy” (Grady) and “mortal queen of faerie smut” (VanArendonk). Positively, Maas’s novel includes extended erot

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Burns, Belinda. "Untold Tales of the Intra-Suburban Female." M/C Journal 14, no. 4 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.398.

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Australian suburbia, historically and culturally, has been viewed as a feminised domain, associated with the domestic and family, routine and order. Where “the city is coded as a masculine and disorderly space… suburbia, as a realm of domesticity and the family, is coded as a feminine and disciplinary space” (Wilson 46). This article argues how the treatment of suburbia in fiction as “feminine” has impacted not only on the representation and development of the character of the “suburban female”, but also on the shape and form of her narrative journeys. Suburbia’s subordination as domestic and

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Baran, Anneli. "Vellerismist – ühest erilisest väikevormist / About one specific minor form—Wellerism." Methis. Studia humaniora Estonica 15, no. 19 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/methis.v15i19.13435.

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Ütluste eritüübina määratletavat ilmingut nimega vellerism on senises eestikeelses teaduskirjanduses käsitletud napilt. Kuigi vellerismi peetakse üldiselt rahvusvaheliselt levinuks, ei saa siiski rääkida selle ühetaolisest populaarsusest kõigis keeltes ja kultuurides. Ei ole ka ühtset arusaama, millal on see väikevorm alguse saanud ning kas vellerismi algust tuleks otsida rahvaluulest või kirjandusest. Samad küsimused kerkivad ka eestikeelse vellerismi uurimisel. Artiklis annan sissevaate vellerismi kujunemisse ja käsitlustesse eri keeltes ning vaatlen seesuguste väljendite esmakordset esinemi

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S.Nandhini and Dr.A.Kayalvizhi2. "Subjugation to Celebration in the select novels of Shoba De and Shashi Deshpande." November 10, 2022. https://doi.org/10.36993/RJOE.2022.7.4.02.

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Indian fiction in English has been enhanced by a few proficient women writers, including Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Nayanatara Sahyagal, Attain Hosain, Santharamarau, Shashi Deshpande, and Shobha De. They encompass a women's point of view on society. They have illustrated Indian women, their battle, their misery, and their awkward position, keeping in view their picture and job, which the general public has made. Their central devotion comprises investigating the ethical quality of women characters and their battle with difficulties in making their personalities. Since the start of ci

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Döring, Nicola, and Dan J. Miller. "Performer Demographics (Portrayals of Sexuality in Pornography)." DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis, October 24, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34778/5o.

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Pornography is a fictional media genre that depicts sexual fantasies and explicitly presents naked bodies and sexual activities for the purpose of sexual arousal (Williams, 1989; McKee et al., 2020). Regarding media ethics and media effects, pornography has traditionally been viewed as highly problematic. Pornographic material has been accused of portraying sexuality in unhealthy, morally questionable and often sexist ways, thereby harming performers, audiences, and society at large. In the age of the Internet, pornography has become more diverse, accessible, and widespread than ever (Döring,

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Vares, Tiina. "Viagra and 'Getting it up'." M/C Journal 6, no. 5 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2265.

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Viagra, Pfizer's diamond blue shaped pill for erectile difficulties, has spawned thousands of jokes - just check out the internet and you'll be amazed by the variety (from vaguely amusing to downright nasty). Greeting and birthday cards have also latched onto Viagramania ("Potent"). The idea of an erection on demand and/or an erection which won't let you down or, in fact, go down, has captured our popular imagination. Size is still an issue but the erect penis now seems to be the primary focus of humour. A decade ago penile size and erection jokes were popular but with the advent of Viagra in

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Nile, Richard. "Post Memory Violence." M/C Journal 23, no. 2 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1613.

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Hundreds of thousands of Australian children were born in the shadow of the Great War, fathered by men who had enlisted between 1914 and 1918. Their lives could be and often were hard and unhappy, as Anzac historian Alistair Thomson observed of his father’s childhood in the 1920s and 1930s. David Thomson was son of a returned serviceman Hector Thomson who spent much of his adult life in and out of repatriation hospitals (257-259) and whose memory was subsequently expunged from Thomson family stories (299-267). These children of trauma fit within a pattern suggested by Marianne Hirsch in her in

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Neilsen, Philip. "An extract from "The Internet of Love"." M/C Journal 5, no. 6 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2012.

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There are three stages in internet dating: first, the emailing back and forth; second, the phone conversation; and third, the meeting for 'coffee'. But before we discuss the three stages, here are some hints about the preliminary work you have to do. At the outset, you have to trawl through the thousands of people who have placed their profiles on the site. This is aided by limiting your search to a certain age spread, and your city or region. Then you can narrow it down further by checking educational background, whether they have kids, whether they write in New Age jargon, etc You have to tr

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Oravec, Jo Ann. "Promoting Honesty in Children, or Fostering Pathological Behaviour?" M/C Journal 26, no. 3 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2944.

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Introduction Many years ago, the moral fable of Pinocchio warned children about the evils of lying (Perella). This article explores how children are learning lie-related insights from genres of currently marketed polygraph-style “spy kits”, voice stress analysis apps, and electric shock-delivering games. These artifacts are emerging despite the fact that polygraphy and other lie detection approaches are restricted in use in certain business and community contexts, in part because of their dubious scientific support. However, lie detection devices are still applied in many real-life settings, o

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Kustritz, Anne. "Transmedia Serial Narration: Crossroads of Media, Story, and Time." M/C Journal 21, no. 1 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1388.

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The concept of transmedia storyworlds unfolding across complex serial narrative structures has become increasingly important to the study of modern media industries and audience communities. Yet, the precise connections between transmedia networks, serial structures, and narrative processes often remain underdeveloped. The dispersion of potential story elements across a diverse collection of media platforms and technologies prompts questions concerning the function of seriality in the absence of fixed instalments, the meaning of narrative when plot is largely a personal construction of each au

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Vaughan, Christopher. "If It Bleeds, It Leads." M/C Journal 6, no. 1 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2136.

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In the mass media, the primacy of ever more intimate perspectives on violent confrontation, which has long been a staple of journalistic profit and practice, has undergone a crucial transformation over the last century. From an overt eagerness to take an active role in the experience of war to a coy, self-promoting emphasis on the risks of the trade, the representation of violent subjects has consistently been filtered through reportorial, yet tremendous change has befallen the role of professional interlocutors in the serving up the experience of war and violent conflict for domestic consumpt

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Döring, Nicola, and Dan J. Miller. "Degradation (Portrayals of Sexuality in Pornography)." DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis, October 24, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34778/5m.

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Pornography is a fictional media genre that depicts sexual fantasies and explicitly presents naked bodies and sexual activities for the purpose of sexual arousal (Williams, 1989; McKee et al., 2020). Regarding media ethics and media effects, pornography has traditionally been viewed as highly problematic. Pornographic material has been accused of portraying sexuality in unhealthy, morally questionable and often sexist ways, thereby harming performers, audiences, and society at large. In the age of the Internet, pornography has become more diverse, accessible, and widespread than ever (Döring,

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Young, Sherman. "Of Cyber Spaces." M/C Journal 1, no. 4 (1998). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1720.

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Postmodernity, as is its wont, conjures up new ways of thinking about everything, and it is no different with ideas about space. One such analysis is the idea of 'heterotopias'. Published in the French journal Architecture-Mouvement-Continuité under the title 'Des Espaces Autres', and subsequently published in English as 'Of Other Spaces' in 1986 was an essay written by Michel Foucault in the mid-sixties (see Soja). In it, he coined the notion of heterotopias -- 'absolutely Other and differentiated social Spaces'. The ideas he presented formed the basis of contemporary writings on the nature o

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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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Morrison, Susan Signe. "Walking as Memorial Ritual: Pilgrimage to the Past." M/C Journal 21, no. 4 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1437.

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This essay combines life writing with meditations on the significance of walking as integral to the ritual practice of pilgrimage, where the individual improves her soul or health through the act of walking to a shrine containing healing relics of a saint. Braiding together insights from medieval literature, contemporary ecocriticism, and memory studies, I reflect on my own pilgrimage practice as it impacts the land itself. Canterbury, England serves as the central shrine for four pilgrimages over decades: 1966, 1994, 1997, and 2003.The act of memory was not invented in the Anthropocene. Rathe

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Kangas, Sonja. "From Haptic Interfaces to Man-Machine Symbiosis." M/C Journal 2, no. 6 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1787.

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Until the 1980s research into computer technology was developing outside of a context of media culture. Until the 1970s the computer was seen as a highly effective calculator and a tool for the use in government, military and economic life. Its popular image from the 1940s to 1950s was that of a calculator. At that time the computer was a large machine which only white lab-coated engineers could understand. The computer was studied as a technical instrument, not from the viewpoint of the user. The peculiar communication between the user -- engineers at this point -- and the machine was describ

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Hanscombe, Elisabeth. "A Plea for Doubt in the Subjectivity of Method." M/C Journal 14, no. 1 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.335.

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Photograph by Gonzalo Echeverria (2010)Doubt has been my closest companion for several years as I struggle to make sense of certain hidden events from within my family’s history. The actual nature of such events, although now lost to us, can nevertheless be explored through the distorting lens of memory and academic research. I base such explorations in part on my intuition and sensitivity to emotional experience, which are inevitably riddled with doubt. I write from the position of a psychoanalytic psychologist who is also a creative writer and my doubts increase further when I use the autobi

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Chin, Bertha. "Locating Anti-Fandom in Extratextual Mash-Ups." M/C Journal 16, no. 4 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.684.

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Fan cultural production, be it in the form of fan fiction, art or videos are often celebrated in fan studies as evidence of fan creativity, fans’ skills in adopting technology and their expert knowledge of the texts. As Jenkins argues, “the pleasure of the form centers on the fascination in watching familiar images wrenched free from their previous contexts and assigned alternative meanings” (227). However, can fan mash-up videos can also offer an alternative view, not of one’s fandom, but of anti-fandom? Fan pleasure is often seen as declaring love for a text through juxtaposing images to sou

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Hackett, Lisa J., and Jo Coghlan. "Conjuring Up a King." M/C Journal 26, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2986.

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Introduction The coronation of King Charles III was steeped in the tradition of magic and ritual that has characterised English, and later British, coronations. The very idea of a coronation leverages belief in divinity; however, the coronation of Charles III occurred in a very different social environment than those of monarchs a millennium ago. Today, belief in the divine right of Kings is dramatically reduced. In this context, magic can also be thought of as a stage performance that relies on a tacit understanding between audience and actor, where disbelief is suspended in order to achieve

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Nichols, L. Dugan. "Generational Detectives." M/C Journal 28, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3136.

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Introduction This article examines American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders (2024), a four-part documentary released on Netflix. Directed by Zachary Treitz, the documentary follows young photojournalist Christian Hansen as he tries to solve the mysterious death of Danny Casolaro. In 1991, Casolaro was found deceased in a hotel room while tracking officials in the CIA and former Reagan White House. He had planned to write an explosive book about what he termed “The Octopus”, an octuplet of overlapping conspiracies that transpired in the 1980s. At the time, local officials ruled Casolaro’s death

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Staite, Sophia. "Kamen Rider." M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2834.

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2021 is the fiftieth anniversary year for Japanese live-action superhero franchise Kamen Rider. For half a century, heroes bearing the name Kamen Rider have battled rubber suited monsters and defended the smiles of children. Unlike many superheroes, however, the Kamen Riders are grotesque heroes, usually drawing their powers from the same source as the villains they battle. Grotesque human-machine-animal hybrids, they differ from their opponents only in the kindness of their hearts and the strength of their spirits. Although the Kamen Rider franchise includes a variety of texts including manga

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De Seta, Gabriele. "“Meng? It Just Means Cute”: A Chinese Online Vernacular Term in Context." M/C Journal 17, no. 2 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.789.

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Fig. 1: "Xiao Ming (little Ming) and xiao meng (little sprout/cutie)", satirical take on a popular Chinese textbook character. Shared online Introduction: Cuteness, Online Vernaculars, and Digital FolkloreThis short essay presents some preliminary materials for a discussion of the social circulation of contemporary Chinese vernacular terms among digital media users. In particular, I present the word meng (萌, literally "sprout", recently adopted as a slang term for "cute") as a case in point for a contextual analysis of elements of digital folklore in their transcultural flows, local appropriat

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Dewsbury, John-David. "Still: 'No Man's Land' or Never Suspend the Question." M/C Journal 12, no. 1 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.134.

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“Say a body. Where none. No mind. Where none. That at least. A place. Where none. For the body. To be in. Move in. Out of. Back into. No out. No back. Only in. Stay in. On in. Still” (Beckett, Short Fiction 471). 1. Introduction – Wherefore to ‘still’?HIRST: As it is?SPOONER: As it is, yes please, absolutely as it is (Pinter, 1971-1981 77). These first lines of Harold Pinter’s play No Man’s Land are indeed the first lines: they were the first lines that came to Pinter, existing as the spark that drove the play into being. Pinter overhead the words ‘As it is’ whilst in a taxi cab and was struck

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Beare, Alexander Hudson, and Amy Brierley-Beare. "“You Know There’s No ‘It’ Right? ‘It’ Was Just Us”." M/C Journal 26, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3002.

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In Showtime’s Yellowjackets (2021-present), ‘magic’ (referred to by the characters as “It”) has an overwhelming presence. Supernatural visions, clairvoyance, and occult iconography are laden throughout each episode. However, the audience is often left uncertain if magic is, in fact, ‘real’ or conjured in the imagination of the show’s characters. Yellowjackets follows a women’s high-school soccer team (named the Yellowjackets) who survive a plane crash deep in the North American wilderness. The show explores the team’s struggle for survival and the present adult lives of those who survived. In

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Watson, Robert. "E-Press and Oppress." M/C Journal 8, no. 2 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2345.

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   From elephants to ABBA fans, silicon to hormone, the following discussion uses a new research method to look at printed text, motion pictures and a teenage rebel icon. If by ‘print’ we mean a mechanically reproduced impression of a cultural symbol in a medium, then printing has been with us since before microdot security prints were painted onto cars, before voice prints, laser prints, network servers, record pressings, motion picture prints, photo prints, colour woodblock prints, before books, textile prints, and footprints. If we accept that higher mammals such as elepha

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Young, Sherman. "Beyond the Flickering Screen: Re-situating e-books." M/C Journal 11, no. 4 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.61.

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The move from analog distribution to online digital delivery is common in the contemporary mediascape. Music is in the midst of an ipod driven paradigm shift (Levy), television and movie delivery is being reconfigured (Johnson), and newspaper and magazines are confronting the reality of the world wide web and what it means for business models and ideas of journalism (Beecher). In the midst of this change, the book publishing industry remains defiant. While embracing digital production technologies, the vast majority of book content is still delivered in material form, printed and shipped the o

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