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    An Interview with Tony David Sampson: Author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks

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    Tony D. Sampson is Reader in Digital Culture and Communication in the School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI) at the University of East London, where he directs the EmotionUX lab, supervising research on the cognitive, emotional, and affective aspects of user experience. In 2013, he co-founded Club Critical Theory, an organization dedicated to the application of critical theory in everyday life in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Tony is the author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks and The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture, both from the University of Minnesota Press. He blogs at viralcontagion.wordpress.com. The editors of this special NANO issue are delighted to have the opportunity to talk with Tony about how his work touches on issues of imitation and contagion—a loaded term unpacked within his 2012 book

    Tony Scott, Music For Zen Meditation

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    Programa con la conducción de Carlos Heredia, veterano de la radio y gran conocedor de las corrientes alternativas. El programa está dedicado a Tony Scott, música para el Zen y la meditación.#AdLibitum#EmisoraHJU

    Tony Scott: el último boy scout

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    Tony Scott, inglés de nacimiento pero hollywoodense por adopción, decidió tomar la triste decisión de arrojarse de un puente en California y ponerle fin a su vida y a una carrera cinematográfica de casi treinta años. La síntesis de su cine está en Imparable, su último film, en el que logró equilibrar historia, estilo y adrenalina. Claramente emparentado con el cine de los ochenta más icónico, Scott logró ser un artesano del cine, a pesar de haber vivido durante mucho tiempo bajo la sombra de su hermano mayor Ridley

    Citizen participation in news

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    The process of producing news has changed significantly due to the advent of the Web, which has enabled the increasing involvement of citizens in news production. This trend has been given many names, including participatory journalism, produsage, and crowd-sourced journalism, but these terms are ambiguous and have been applied inconsistently, making comparison of news systems difficult. In particular, it is problematic to distinguish the levels of citizen involvement, and therefore the extent to which news production has genuinely been opened up. In this paper we perform an analysis of 32 online news systems, comparing them in terms of how much power they give to citizens at each stage of the news production process. Our analysis reveals a diverse landscape of news systems and shows that they defy simplistic categorisation, but it also provides the means to compare different approaches in a systematic and meaningful way. We combine this with four case studies of individual stories to explore the ways that news stories can move and evolve across this landscape. Our conclusions are that online news systems are complex and interdependent, and that most do not involve citizens to the extent that the terms used to describe them imply

    Tony Scott clarinetist with Carl "Doc" Severinsen trumpeter, and trombonist Steve Allen

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    7 x 9 inch photograph; Tony Scott clarinetist, with unidentified trumpeter, and trombonis

    Understanding Tony Scott: Authorship and Post-Classical Hollywood

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    The article offers criticism to several films directed by the British motion picture director Tony Scott, including the films Man on Fire, starring Dakota Fanning, Denzel Washington and Christopher Walken, Domino, starring Mo’Nique and Déjà vu, starring Jim Caviezel and Denzel Washington. Particular focus is given to his authorship and film production as a post-classical director in Hollywood, California

    Creasy's Cinema ("Man on Fire")

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    Analisi delle modalità del cinema di Tony Scott di rapportarsi all'universo del digitale e del cinema d'azione spinto alle estreme conseguenze audiovisuali, con un potenziamento frenetico delle forme e del montaggio rispetto al contenuto ideologic

    Tony Award

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    Scott Phillips, Su Cox, Doug Cook, Fred Adams, and Cam Harvey at the Tony Awards.Color slide

    Tony Tulathimutte: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival

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    Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and has written for The Paris Review, N+1, The New York Times, Playboy, The Nation, and others. He also runs CRIT, a writing class in Brooklyn
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