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  Is blocking a preemptive strategy?

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  Jacqueline Vickery University of North Texas

  September 01, 2016

  before she blocks them? Is it possible she had already been the target of harassment and she was tired of ... and which were misogynistic trolls? Because that sounds like a lot of time and work. I’m all for ... to block those who didn’t. I’m using Schumer as a controversial conversation starter, but it seems no ...
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  The Dead Can Twitter: Tragedy, Comedy, and False Celebrity Death Reports

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  January 29, 2014

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  it is ground in the possibility of tragedy: Jeff Goldblum confronting his own mortality.   ...
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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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  followers on his life outside the ring? Are they in or out of character? Are Post and his cohorts even ...
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  Service Interruption: Social Media in Academia

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  Evelyn Deshane Waterloo University

  November 05, 2017

  academic superstars like Kevin Gannon (@thetattooedprof). These academics have become popular outside the ...
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  #ABCReports and Black Twitter

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  March 28, 2014

  pervasiveness, and mutlivocality of Black Twitter. Using new digital tools it is possible to map and time the ...
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  The UFC’s Phantom Cam: Refining the Spectacle of Corporeal Damage and Durability

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  Matthew Ferrari University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  April 03, 2014

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  refined to their most valued (and possibly disturbing) imagery  –  while the brutality of actual duration ...
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  ”I am”. Collaborative storytelling in the shape of a Twitter poem

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  Bo Reimer Malmö University

  November 03, 2016

  3 comments

  be possible to view the poem as a simple representation of what is happening “out there”. But one ...
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  We Want You: Transmedia Performances of Fan Devotion, Desire, and Domination

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  Louisa Stein Middlebury College

  June 18, 2010

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  We Want You: Transmedia Performances of Fan Devotion, Desire, and Domination twitter transmedia fandom fan video fan authorship celebrity Curator's Note Supernatural guest star turned series regular, Misha Collins, has used twitter to mobilize a voca ...
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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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  Casting a New 007: Can James Bond be Black?

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  Eva Coleman Owusu The Pennsylvania State University

  November 04, 2020

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  Casting a New 007: Can James Bond be Black? James Bond Black actor Idris Elba twitter culture Curator's Note During the midst of a global pandemic, we have seen ongoing protests concerning the representation and equality of Blacks globally. On Septem ...