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  Re: “Like Shooting Nerds in a Barrel”: Exploiting the Fanboy Niche

  pro-nerd/anti-nerd

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  Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

  Monday, February 6, 2012 — 3:28 am

  quite a bit, as does Howard. Sheldon aside, characters genuinely incapable of "hooking up" ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  I Was There

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  Kelli Marshall DePaul University

  Friday, August 24, 2012 — 2:36 pm

  Aside from perhaps Fox News or Bill Maher (who was likely jealous of an event he could never pull off ...
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  Re: Food Authorities: The Burger Foundation and the Sources of Expertise

  Food Knowledge

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Sunday, October 20, 2013 — 10:17 pm

  a stuffed pink bird? But leaving questions of audience and impact aside, there is still something ...
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  Re: Orphan Black and the Performance Text of Attractions

  Good questions...

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  R. Colin Tait Texas Christian University

  Monday, April 7, 2014 — 9:44 pm

  when they will end. I also wonder, aside from 'Quality TV' what performances we might have ...
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  Re: Nasty, Brutish, and Short: "Game of Thrones," History, and the Violence of Women's Lives

  Joffrey's Phallic Arrows

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  Sarah Hanks University of Oklahoma

  Wednesday, September 24, 2014 — 6:18 pm

  are being destabilized by the loss of this fighting hand. As an interesting aside, this scene received ...
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  Re: The Colbert Report as Millennial Pedagogy

  Colbert's Pedagogy Problem...

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  Shaun Treat independent scholar, public intellectual & Gonzo Academic

  Thursday, September 3, 2015 — 5:03 pm

  plagiarism, much less why. Cooking metaphors aside, this is why I wonder the degree to which Colbert--or other ...
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  The Lore of Lorne

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  Peter C. Kunze Tulane University

  March 26, 2025

  across these specials was Lorne Michaels, who rarely talks directly to the camera (aside from archival ...
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  Re: Mediated Survivialism in *Fallout 3*

  ethical algorithm

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  Timothy Welsh Loyola University New Orleans

  Thursday, October 10, 2013 — 1:25 am

  expression of algorithmic logic--If I couldn't help why offer the option? Both reactions are possible ... , and they aren't mutually exclusive. It is possible to help the NPC; success is calculated from ... One possible scenario, then, has the player--knowing her character isn't that good with ...
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  Truly Digital Comics

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  Mark Waid Writer/Editor/Publisher

  February 21, 2012

  4 comments

  in the world I’m best at--but as print costs continue to rise and profitability drops to ...
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  The Many Texts of Textless Paratexts

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  Johannes Mahlknecht University of Innsbruck, Austria

  March 17, 2014

  5 comments

  trailer only funny if we know the source it's adapting. The line, "I’m here because I’m ...

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