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  Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno and Penn State Fans: Investments of Sympathy and Identity

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  November 28, 2011

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  "JoePa" they are investing their sympathies/identities on the wrong side of an ethical  (from ... fans/protestors to be motivated less by possible hurt to football and moved more by possible physical or psychic ...
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  Three Generations of Tolkien Fans

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  Maria K. Alberto University of Utah

  November 01, 2022

  opposite sides of a binary, though obsession_inc did describe them more as a continuum, and that’s what we ...
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  The Digital Evolution?: From Tabletop to Online Simulation

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  Shane Toepfer University of North Georgia

  June 29, 2012

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  possibilities, and for almost thirty years the game has cultivated a small, dedicated fanbase that purchases ... community espoused the "unlimited possibilities" the online format would offer for the game and ...
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  Gotta Catch On: Intertextuality and the Popularity of Pokémon Go

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  Katharine McCain The Ohio State University

  October 15, 2016

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  to spread Pokémon Go to as wide an audience as possible, including non-gamers.  Initially Niantic ... possibilities. How awesome would it be if Eleven, Negasonic, and Furiosa were the same being, the ultimate ...
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  Rearticulating Star Texts Through Japanese Televisual Paratexts: Snow Man and SixTONES on Arashi ni shiyagare

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  Rosaley Gai Stanford University

  Lilian Higashikata The University of British Columbia

  August 31, 2020

  learning about them, possibly for the first time. For fans of SixTONES and Snow Man, the program served to ...
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  Race Horse as Rock Star: Fandom and Zenyatta

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  Holly Kruse Rogers State University

  October 04, 2010

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  Race Horse as Rock Star: Fandom and Zenyatta fandom fans horse racing Zenyatta Curator's Note Six days before the movie Secretariat was scheduled to open in the United States, another star racehorse graced American screens. On October 2, 2010, in a r ...