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Real Men Wear Heels

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February 23, 2010

adopt a style is also to carve a space for yourself outside of the status quo. But I also think that ... it's about what's next, what's coming. Possibility, in other words. Rad shows that it’s ... possible for men to wear heels, and not only that it's possible, but it should in fact be ...

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Selling Domesticity Online

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Jennifer Wofford Cornell University

March 22, 2010

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living that did not require them to venture outside the home. Today, these micro-narratives are woven ... provided for by the male public-figure, the narratives today hold up the possibility that, in fact, women ... online craft community: specifically, that it is possible to “quit your day job,” and for some, to be ...

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They say class cuts, we say class war

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Meredith Wallis Stanford

May 04, 2010

So when I’m talking to gays who have wanted more than anything in the world to get married, for whom ... (90s), now comically defiant: “I’m not the marrying kind”. The disappointment is palpable. It is ... go on as if there were both, in order to secure the possibility that there might be either. And ...

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Metafiction for Children: A User's Guide

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Philip Nel Kansas State University

September 03, 2010

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from doing so. I’m not sure what hooked me on metafictions, but I expect it was something I saw or read ... what they’re reading or watching, allowing them to step outside of some of the conceptual boxes that ...

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"Four Days at Dragon*Con" excerpt

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Jack Walsh Public Broadcasting Atlanta

September 07, 2010

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or 15 or 20 years ago: back when Cons really were a gathering place for outside ... disagreed with me when I postulated it; working without narration, I’m at the mercy of what my interview ...

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“My MySpace Schedule Keeps Me Way Too Busy to Date”: Glee and Social Networking Sites

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Kimberly Owczarski University of Arizona

April 06, 2010

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ongoing transition to social TV. Several venues all carrying the same Rachel tweet, “I’m confident that at ... some point, I’m going to be huge in Japan,” means she won’t be the only one having to clear her ...

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Craft Cultures Online- Can they be "global"?

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Radhika Gajjala Bowling Green State University

February 23, 2010

that there are more globally nuanced and multiple intersections possibles. This present piece was ... provide us with tools on how to be successful in advertising and how to think outside the box. Ultimately, ... role such networks play in the disciplining of the “"outside"” in liberal humanist notions of ...

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Westen Meets Lawson: Formula as Brand and the Potential of a USA Network Genre

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Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

July 12, 2010

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exemplar of the (possible) USA Network genre. It uses the formula of Burn Notice and reproduces much of its ... people/earn a living outside or ancillary to "the law" (a variation: pursues traditional form of job ...

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What REALitieS Are in the Classroom? How a Diary, a Teacher, and 150 Students Changed the World

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Aron Christian Georgia State University - Department of Communication

September 29, 2010

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function daily in constructing the real outside the "four walls" of our institutions. We often ... escaped their limited realties and regained their power through discovering new possibilities in ...

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