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Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction

Posted in media studies, tagged , , , on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Rebecca W. Black. (2008). Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies). New York: Peter Lang.
My rating: ***
Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction by Rebecca W. Black
This book uses current educational theory to discuss adolescent fan fiction. The book is useful in that it attempts to argue for the importance of fan fiction [...]

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Code 46 (2003)

Posted in Foucault, film, science fiction/fantasy, tagged , , , , on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My rating: **
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The characters and story in this science fiction film directed by Michael Winterbottom are of no real interest and the film doesn’t offer much that is inspiring either on what appears to be its main themes of memory and identity and otherness. But what is interesting about this film are [...]

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The Ancaster Demons

Posted in lolcats, novels, tagged , , on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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I have put up a review of this rather dire book simply as an excuse to introduce the only social networking site I have found to be of any use – Goodreads. This site allows you to keep a record of the books you read and to share your ratings and reviews of [...]

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Cube (1997)

Posted in Foucault, film, science fiction/fantasy, tagged , , , , on November 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »

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My rating: ***
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This film about a group of strangers, inexplicably trapped in an interlocking network of connected cubes and their efforts to escape, is gripping from beginning to finish. It also raises some interesting questions.
What if we were trapped in a disciplinary mechanism which has gone way beyond any necessity [...]

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Peer review

Posted in lolcats, writing technique, tagged , , on November 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »

My rating: ***
Continuing on with the same theme…

For those of you came in late, ‘lolcats’ is a phenomenon that really took off on the net early in 2007 – although it dates back to around 2005. It involves photos – usually of cats – with funny captions in broken misspelt ‘Engrish’ in a sans serif [...]

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‘Boffins blogging’

Posted in media studies, writing technique, tagged , , on November 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Andrew Walker and Nicholas Farrelly, ‘Boffins blogging: unlimited review’, ANU Reporter, Summer 2008, p. 34
My rating: ****
Here are some extracts from an excellent short analysis of the benefits of the blogosphere for academics. The two writers have been running a blog titled New Mandala since June 2006.
I absolutely agree with what the two writers [...]

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