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Quality Pet Supplies - 1 views

I am a pet lover and I love to pamper my pets by buying them new items. I always make sure that I purchase items of good quality. Fortunately, Online Pet Accessories has offered me their top qualit...

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Nele Noppe

Pokémon and international politics? - 0 views

www.ethanzuckerman.com/...mon-and-international-politics

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shared by Nele Noppe on 02 Nov 08 - Cached
  • She identifies Pokémon as a media form that has defined the current framework, laying the groundwork for peer-to-peer communication and creation of media. While the current generation has outgrown Pokémon, the game franchise shaped how global youth think about culture and gaming. It linked analog and digital media, she proposes, by creating an electronic game that later manifested as a collectible card game, manga, anime, toys and other media. It put portability at the center of the media mix, and helped establish Japanese media content as a transnational source of cultural capital
  • She sees a generation of kids engaging in a set of cultural practices - cutting, pasting, linking and forwarding in spaces like MySpace
  • Individual identity is no longer consumer or producer - there’s a middle ground that includes connoisseur and amateur.
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  • Networks are no longer mass media or purely personal communication - there are community networks that allow communication about niche interests to a large population
  • The work done by the fan community is of impressively high quality and speed - fan substitles are usually distributed to new episodes within 24 hours of their release,
  • Media companies aren’t unaware of this obsessive fandom - their release cycles and their localization of content into different languages often reflects producers watching fan behavior.
  • The Matrix itself is something of a remix, an American film that borrows heavily from the cliches of Japanese and Chinese action films
  • Mimi sees three trends taking place: - a ping-pong back and forth between US and Japanese culture, informing the mass communication aesthetic - a mainstreaming of the otaku aesthetic, a fondness for arcane, complex, richly detailed worlds (think of the popularity of the absurdly detailed universe of Harry Potter, for instance) - remix as a method of localizing and “talking back” to mainstream media.
    • Nele Noppe
      Nele Noppe on 02 Nov 08
       
      a fondness for arcane, complex, richly detailed worlds -love this line!!
  • So here’s a question - does participation in these international joint projects turn into a more generalized form of xenophilia? Do American fans of anime develop a generalized fascination with Japan, which somehow expands from watching Naruto to watching global politics?
Nele Noppe

Umberto Eco and His Travels in Hyperreality - 0 views

www.transparencynow.com/eco.htm

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shared by Nele Noppe on 14 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Eco saw that we create these realistic fabrications in an effort to come up with something that is better than real -- a description that is true of virtually all fiction and culture, which gives us things that are more exciting, more beautiful, more inspiring, more terrifying, and generally more interesting than what we encounter in everyday life.
  • As Eco explains it, his trip is a pilgrimage in search of "hyperreality," or the world of "the Absolute Fake," in which imitations don't merely reproduce reality, but try improve on it.
  • When he travels the artificial river in Disneyland, for example, he sees animatronic imitations of animals. But, on a trip down the real Mississippi, the river fails to reveal its alligators. "...You risk feeling homesick for Disneyland," he concludes, "where the wild animals don't have to be coaxed. Disneyland tells us that technology can give us more reality than nature can."
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  • But, perhaps his most interesting perception occurs when he discovers, behind all the spectacle in Disneyland, the same old tricks of capitalism, with a new twist: "The Main Street facades are presented to us as toy houses and invite us to enter them, but their interior is always a disguised supermarket, where you buy obsessively, believing that you are still playing,"
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