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  Cleaning Up the Gulf With Twitter

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  Elizabeth Schwarz University of California, Riverside

  July 20, 2010

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  Cleaning Up the Gulf With Twitter oil spill twitter social media Curator's Note How do messages of 140 characters or less influence change? Twitter is a microblogging website that allows users to communicate by sending messages that are 140 character ...
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  Making the scripted more real? Pro wrestling and Twitter

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  August 17, 2010

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  Making the scripted more real? Pro wrestling and Twitter twitter social media pro wrestling Curator's Note Professional wrestling is not real. Most fans are aware that what they are seeing is pre-scripted and delivered by performers in character. Des ...
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  Lacking "honesty" and "a human quality": Sorkin and the Anti-Social Network

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  Pamela Ingleton McMaster University

  July 01, 2011

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  people" (Smith). That new guard Zuckerberg and Facebook could possibly represent the end of old guard ...
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  Welcome to Connected Viewing

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  Jennifer Holt University of California, Santa Barbara

  May 28, 2012

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  Welcome to Connected Viewing social media digital Connected Viewing Curator's Note While the promise of interactive television has existed since the early days of cable television, many decades later, it has been delivered in the developing form of c ...
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  Profile Pictures, T-Shirts, and Visibility Campaigns

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  Joel Penney Montclair State University

  September 16, 2013

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  activism stemming from the self-expressive possibilities of contemporary participatory culture. However, ...
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  "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

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  April Cobos Old Dominion University

  March 31, 2014

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  "Rape Culture" and the Social Media social media sexual assault Circulating pain Curator's Note This is a large portion of the video made by a friend of one of the convicted men in the Steubenville rape case after he received photographs of ...
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  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

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  Tanya Horeck & Tina Kendall Anglia Ruskin University

  April 02, 2014

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  Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos social media Circulating pain affect Curator's Note NekNomination videos – a social media drinking game which involves (mainly) young men drinking potentially lethal combinations of alcohol and then is ...
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  Philan-selfie: Attribution Vs. Contribution

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  Lindsay Bosch Video Data Bank

  December 12, 2014

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  surrounding #YesAllWomen, #BringBackOurGirls and #Kony2012 evidenced a possible colonization of causes that ...
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  Cellphone Footage as Witness and Instrument for Vigilante Justice

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  Fatma Matin Khan University of Delhi

  March 04, 2015

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  wrote “i made sure i humiliate him as much as possible because i know law will do nothing”. There has ...
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  France's Combat of Extremism Through Social Media

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  Michael Anthony Turcios University of Southern California

  March 23, 2016

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  possibility of people falsely reporting a person who is suspected to be partaking in indoctrination. The clip ...

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