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  Re: On the Surprise of the Game

  Political possibilities and Penn State

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  Tuesday, April 3, 2012 — 5:33 pm

  I think any discussion of sports and its political possibilities has to consider what happened at ... as well as possibly elected state officeholders and other state leaders, looked the other way as ... more to political possibility than the limited options of what happen on the field. The level of shock ...
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  Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  August 22, 2012

  12 comments

  overall media climate where the possibility of politics to produce meaningful, systemic change is a joke. ... being jerks or unaware of the other side’s argument, seems to be difficult for Stewart, and The Daily ... limiting the possibility of politics, both The Daily Show and the media it ridicules contribute to ...
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  Access of Evil: Google, Verizon and the Future of Net Neutrality

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  Jennifer Holt University of California, Santa Barbara

  August 25, 2010

  9 comments

  indeed. Their newfound alliance would not be possible, were it not for Google’s dramatic about-face on the ... side in this clip, Jon Stewart highlights the free-range consumer ignorance and paucity of informed ...
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  Re: Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

  Keeping Our Bases--and Asses--Covered

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Tuesday, March 2, 2010 — 1:30 am

  masculinity advertisement  (for beer, appropriately), and on the theme of this week’s IMR, I’m left wondering: ... in the implausibility of its escape fantasy. But at the same time, I’m not quite sure how body wash ... and a shiny new phallus sportscar could possibly be enough compensation for the trials and ...
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  Hurry Up and Wait

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  Joshua Gleich University of Texas-Austin

  August 16, 2016

  collection, I’m moving step by step from an idea to an actual manuscript. The first monograph seems to move in ... anyone thought you should have written the manuscript in the first place. I sometimes feel like I’m back ... the proposal as soon as possible to get the wheels in motion. The book proposal is out to a few ...
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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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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  Appropriate political optics

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  Thursday, August 23, 2012 — 6:53 am

  Thank you for your response Jonathan. I don’t want to come off as flippant but I’m attempting to ... make my argument in the space allowed. I also want to point out I think I’m doing more of a discourse ... into a performance, divorcing it from its power and possibility. All protests attempt to make visible ...
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  Re: The Media Hoax Phenomenon

  Student Responses

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  Elizabeth Lenaghan Northwestern University

  Tuesday, February 4, 2014 — 5:07 am

  registration requests, so I’m posting these comments (and I may have more), on their behalf. I’m sure they’d ... deeply as possible. For example, in the case of the journalist Stephen Glass who fabricated a majority of ...
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  On Writing After the Death of Print

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  John Bresland Northwestern University

  February 07, 2012

  3 comments

  mainly, about the death of print. As this grieving process continues, as we accept our digital fate, I’m ... virtues, it answers the question I’m most frequently asked about the video essay: Are images replacing ...
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  Re: Corporate Authorship, Film Adaptation, and Universal Pictures’ The Raven (1935)

  Kyle, your post reminds me

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  Kyle Barnett Bellarmine University

  Thursday, November 29, 2007 — 8:50 am

  penny pinching, using literature in the public domain seemed a smart move for their small operation. I’m ... expanding the narrative possibilities amidst Universal’s attempts to extend the life of their horror cycle ...

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