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Publication Policies Seek to Attract Filmmakers to Latin America(Economist, 2021-06-22) Falicov, Tamara L.Publication Lit up and left dark: Failures of imagination in urban broadband networks(Sage, 2018-06-05) Halegoua, Germaine R.; Lingel, JessaThe design and deployment of urban broadband infrastructures inscribe particular imaginations of Internet access onto city streets. The different manifestations and locations of these networks, their uses, and access points often expose material excesses of urban broadband networks, as well as failures of Internet service providers, urban planners, and public officials to imagine the diverse ways that people incorporate Internet connection into their everyday lives. We approach the study of urban broadband networks through the juxtaposition of invisible networks that are buried under the streets and have always been “turned off” (dark fiber) versus hypervisible that are “turned on” and prominently displayed on city streets (LinkNYC). In our analysis of these two case studies, we critique themes of visibility and invisibility as indexes of power and access. Our findings are meant to provide a critical analysis of urban technology policy as well as theories of infrastructure, visibility, and access.Publication John Tibbetts Oral History Interview(2018-02-13) Tibbetts, John C.; Healey, ElspethThe interview concerns Professor Tibbetts's decades-long practice of preparing portraits (in gouache or pen and ink) in anticipation of the interviews he conducts with figures from the worlds of film, theatre, music, and literature. Professor Tibbetts has donated these portraits, signed by the notable figures they depict, to the Kenneth Spencer Research Library. In this interview, Tibbetts discusses his artistic training and style and his approach to portraiture and interviewing, and he recounts anecdotes from several of his celebrity interviews.Publication Historical trends in children’s entertainment as they relate to children’s television(University of Kansas, 1973) Cazana, Mimi D.Publication Student Leadership in a Library-Initiated Experiential Learning Project(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2017) Reed, Michelle; Duncan, Philip Travis; Halegoua, Germaine R.This chapter discusses aspects of Undergraduates Speak: Our Rights and Access, a library-initiated and student-led pilot project aimed at advancing educational initiatives in the realm of scholarly communication. The project provided undergraduate students with opportunities to engage in experiential learning. Experiential learning, commonly defined as “learning by doing,” emphasizes the role that experience and self-reflection play in the learning process. In recent years, universities across the country have increasingly committed to providing such opportunities for undergraduate students. One reason for this emphasis is because experiential activities have a demonstrat¬ed impact on student retention and engagement. Among these high-impact practices are undergraduate research, internship, and service-learning opportunities. This chapter examines all three via Undergraduates Speak, where undergraduate students actively participated in exploratory research at multiple stages along the research continuum.Publication Holmes in London, 1988(Northeastern Illinois University. English Department., 1988) Tibbetts, John C.Publication The Acoustic Screen: The Dynamics of the Female Look and Voice in Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin(Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2016) Moradiyan Rizi, NajmehSince the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the representation of women in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has been one of the main concerns of Iranian officials. This concern caused the enforcement of cinematic restrictions on Iranian cinema in 1982, known as the Islamic Codes of Modesty. The prohibition of the close-ups of women’s faces was one of these cinematic limitations. Since then, Iranian filmmakers have used a great amount of creativity in their films to not only represent Iranian women on the screen, but also to criticize the gender-segregated laws of Iran. Their creativity and efforts have gradually challenged and changed the modesty regulations. Abbas Kiarostami’s film, Shirin (2008), stands out in this regard as the film provides an unprecedented portrayal of Iranian women through the use of close-up shots of 114 actresses throughout the film. This paper examines the aesthetics and politics of Kiarostami’s cinema through a feminist analysis of Shirin in order to locate Kiarostami’s film within a larger socio-cultural context of Iran. The main focus of this study, therefore, is to show how Kiarostami uses the cinematic apparatus to highlight female subjectivity not only in literary and cinematic platforms, but also in Iran’s history and society.Publication Jumping for Fun? Negotiating Mobility and the Geopolitics of Foursquare(SAGE Publications, 2016-09-05) Halegoua, Germaine R.; Leavitt, Alex; Gray, Mary L.Rather than assume that there is some universal “right way” to engage social media platforms, we interrogate how the location-based social media practice known as “jumping” played out on the popular service Foursquare. We use this case to investigate how a “global” or universal system is constructed with an imagined user in mind, one who enjoys a particular type of mobility and experience of place. Through the analysis of official Foursquare policies and mission statements, discussions among developers, interviews with and conversations among Foursquare users, online traces left by jumpers, and correspondence between designers and users on discussion forums, we identify how certain practices and participants are discursively constructed as normative, while other practices and groups are marginalized. Through the study of “jumping,” and its association with Indonesian players in particular, we highlight tensions between the assumptions and industrial strategies of Foursquare designers and the emergent practices and norms of early adopters and avid participants. We argue that the practices of “Indonesian” Foursquare jumpers and the discourses surrounding their use of Foursquare illustrate that practices understood as transgressive or resistive might best be read as strategies for engaging with a platform as groups contend with marginalizing social, economic, and/or political conditions. The case study examined in this article highlights the practices of participants who attempt to integrate themselves into the design of a social media system and the “workarounds,” tensions, negotiations, and logics that manifest in that process.Publication Not Yet the Post-TV Era: Network and MVPD Adaptation to Emergent Distribution Technologies(Cogitatio Press, 2016-07-14) Van Esler, Michael W.Television as a medium is in transition. From DVRs, to Netflix, to HBO Now, consumers have never before had such control over how they consume televisual content. The rapid changes to the medium have led to rhetoric heralding the impending “post-TV era.” Looking at the ways that legacy television companies have adapted to new technologies and cultural practices suggests that rather than traditional television going the way of radio, television as a medium is actually not terribly different, at least not enough to conclude that we have entered a new era. Press releases, discursive practices by the news media, corporate structures and investments, and audience research all point to the rhetoric of post-TV as being overblown. By thinking about contemporary television as being in transition, greater emphasis and attention can be placed on the role that major media conglomerates play in developing, funding, and legitimizing new forms of television distribution, in addition to co-opting disruptive technologies and business models while hindering others.Publication The Spatial Self: Location-Based Identity Performance on Social Media(SAGE Publications, 2014-04-09) Schwartz, Raz; Halegoua, Germaine R.As a growing number of social media platforms now include location information from their users, researchers are confronted with new online representations of individuals, social networks, and the places they inhabit. To better understand these representations and their implications, we introduce the concept of the “spatial self”: a theoretical framework encapsulating the process of online self-presentation based on the display of offline physical activities. Building on previous studies in social science, humanities, and computer and information science, we analyze the ways offline experiences are harnessed and performed online. We first provide an encompassing interdisciplinary survey of research that investigates the relationships between location, information technology, and identity performance. Then, we identify and characterize the spatial self as well as examine its occurrences through three case studies of popular social media sites: Instagram, Facebook, and Foursquare. Finally, we offer possible research directions and methodological considerations for the analysis of geocoded social media data.Publication Calling all “Fiberhoods”: Google Fiber and the Politics of Visibility(SAGE Publications, 2014) Halegoua, Germaine R.This essay examines the promise of transformation and initial outcomes of Google’s “Fiber for Communities” project in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Through a discourse analysis of industry and popular press, press releases, Google’s official blog and YouTube channel, and user-generated content from Kansas City residents from 2010-2012, the essay highlights the ways in which Google promised to transform the image and significance of Kansas City, upgrade experiences of internet access and use, and experiment with new deployment models for large scale fiber optic infrastructure in the US. However, the author focuses on how the process of transformation rendered certain pre-existing digital divides and inequities more visible rather than erasing them.Publication Iranian Women, Iranian Cinema: Negotiating with Ideology and Tradition(University of Nebraska, Omaha, 2015-04-01) Moradiyan Rizi, NajmehThroughout the ruptures of Iran’s history, Iranian women have been at the core of any social and political changes and challenges. In this historical context, Iranian women’s body, sexuality, and individuality have been confined within the constitution of religion and tradition. In recent years, however, the new generation of Iranian women is negotiating the notions of femininity, sexuality, and modernity in Iran’s society. Along with this negotiation, Iranian cinema, as the visual showcase of Iranian culture and society, has recently represented an unprecedented portrayal of Iranian women on the screen. This portrayal stems from the gender consciousness of Iranian women who are transgressing the boundaries of gender segregation and inequality. This study, therefore, provides an insight into the social and sexual changes of Iranian women’s lives in today’s Iran and analyzes the representation of these changes in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema, especially the recent decade.Publication Burman's Ode to El Once Neighborhood(Brandeis University Press, 2011-01-01) Falicov, Tamara L.In the mid-1990s, young directors such as Daniel Burman began making films about ethnic identities and multiple subjectivities in Argentina. Because these filmmakers relied more on personal stories than on overtly political or historical issues, they paved the way for various ethnic communities to be the focus of Argentine films. Although there is a history of Jewish-themed films in Argentine cinema, there have been few Jewish directors who told these tales from a personal, semi-autobiographical standpoint. In previous decades, the few films that represented narratives of Argentine Jews included Juan Jose Jusids The Jewish Gauchos (1974); Beda Docampo Feijoos World War II drama, Beneath the World (1987); Raul de la Torres Poor Butterfly (1986); and Eduardo Mignognas Autumn Sun (1996). The directors themselves, with the exception of Feijoo, were not of Jewish origin, but they made thoughtful films with wide-ranging and nuanced depictions of Jews in Argentina.Publication Voices from the Small Cinemas: Beyond “the Remaining Countries”(Intellect Press, 2012-11) Falicov, Tamara L.; Middents, JeffreyThis introduction to a special volume dedicated to translations of recent writings from underexamined cinematic traditions in Latin America (such as Bolivian, Cuba, Colombia, Peru and Puerto Rico) argues for the amplification of voices from “small” cinemas as essential to understanding contemporary cinema from the region as a whole.Publication Programa Ibermedia: Cine Transnacional Ibero-Americano O Relaciones Públicas Para España?(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012) Falicov, Tamara L.El Programa Ibermedia (de aquí en adelante, Ibermedia) es un fondo de co-producción de films auspiciado por España, Portugal y dieciocho países miembros en Latino América. Su propósito es promover el desarrollo de proyectos dirigidos al mercado de Ibero-América. Fundado principalmente por España y ubicado allí, este fondo para films recibe fondos de cada país miembro para ser incluidos en un fondo audiovisual Ibero-Americano. Este trabajo explora el mecanismo del fondo de co-producción para comprender cómo los imperativos económicos determinan las explicaciones cuando se incluyen actores españoles en films Latino Americanos, para así cumplir con los requisitos “técnicos-artísticos” de una co-producción Ibero-Americana. Mientras que el Programa Ibermedia ha resultado ser una exitosa fuente de fondos, especialmente para los países menos desarrollados de Latino America, se han hecho observaciones críticas que sugieren que España es el mayor beneficiario de todos.Publication Review of "Cuban Cinema" by Michael Chanan(Brill, 2008) Falicov, Tamara L.Publication Los hijos de Menem: The New Independent Argentine Cinema, 1995-1999(Wayne State University Press, 2003) Falicov, Tamara L.Publication Between the Map and the Painted Landscape: Kevin Brownlow’s Historical Films(CARFAX PUBLISHING, 2000-06) Tibbetts, John C.Publication Television and history: A report from the XVIIIth IAMHIST conference in Leeds, UK, 14-17 July 1999(CARFAX PUBLISHING, 2000-03) Tibbetts, John C.; Welsh, James M.Publication A report on the XIX IAMHIST Congress, Leipzig, 18-22 July 2001(CARFAX PUBLISHING, 2002-03) Tibbetts, John C.; Welsh, James M.