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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
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- Individual identity is no longer consumer or producer - there’s a middle ground that includes connoisseur and amateur.
- 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.
- 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?

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Pocket Monster incident and low luminance visual stimuli: special reference to deep red flicker stimulation.

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Gotta Catch 'em all: Structure, Agency and Pedagogy in Children's Media Culture

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Technology Review: Transmedia Storytelling 1

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what is variously called transmedia, multiplatform, or enhanced storytelling represents the future of entertainment.
By design, Pokemon unfolds across games, television programs, films, and books, with no media privileged over any other.