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On Saturated Multicultural Ad Montages/  /June 13, 2004
“Instead of a single narrative voiceover, the serial montage compiles the narration as the sum of the participants voices. In such ads, the narrative often takes the form of a litany. . . Here aestheticized individualism apparently made possible by Akamai's network is the dominant social formation. . . This application of seriality privileges the individual over the group, the network over the community, and style over substance.”

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