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  Strike You!

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  Ellen Seiter University of Southern California

  December 19, 2007

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  Strike You! satire Youtube labor pro-am WGA strike Curator's Note YouTube has been an amazing resource for me—as a teacher of television. I especially like the way that it enables me to show historic television clips and TV from other countries. I al ...
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  Unexpected Virtuosity and the Dancing Cockatiel

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  Jane Desmond University of Illinois – Champaign Urbana

  December 06, 2007

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  Unexpected Virtuosity and the Dancing Cockatiel Youtube viral videos competition pro-am dance animal tricks technical virtuosity Back Street Boys expectation Curator's Note Looking at videos listed under “dance contests” on YouTube, I expected to fin ...
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  Multiplatform Fame

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  James Bennett London Metropolitan University

  February 19, 2009

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  Multiplatform Fame pro-am online content DIY DiggNation celebrity Beavis and Butthead Curator's Note  This clip is edited together from the podcast  Diggnation, hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. DiggNation  appears to be two computer geeks, sit ...
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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  February 27, 2008

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  Baseball *Is* All It’s Quacked Up To Be 1950s amateurs Baseball branding discourse documentaries fandom Ken Burns Madiso Mallards marketing pro-am promos regionalism sports Curator's Note Inning Seven of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” argues that major socioe ...