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Re: Making the scripted more real? Pro wrestling and Twitter

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 — 10:59 pm

Thanks for the comments guys, I appreciate it. I am most intrigued by the story possibilities of ... really does open up the story for any number of possibilities. Though I wonder if the WWE and its more ...

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"The MSG Curtain Call": A Conflation of Front and Backstage in Professional Wrestling

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Ari Berenstein 411Mania.com

August 19, 2010

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ceremony. Still, it is in these moments that the audience comes as close as possible to witnessing the ...

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History Repeats Itself?: How Wrestling Regards Its Performers

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Bryan Alvarez Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Weekly

August 20, 2010

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about head injuries, and how there is a possibility that Lou Gherig never even had the disease that was ...

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Re: "The MSG Curtain Call": A Conflation of Front and Backstage in Professional Wrestling

Thanks Bryce for the history

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Ari Berenstein 411Mania.com

Friday, August 20, 2010 — 6:46 am

crowds such as that one. As far as generating heat, its interesting to note that it is still possible to ... or real and simply concentrated on the dislike they had for the other side. That would be generating ... heat. Its similar to what is happening now with the Nexus angle in WWE (if a bit more one-sided in that ...

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Please Feed the Trolls: 4chan and Vernacular Media Policy

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Bill Kirkpatrick Denison University

August 23, 2010

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Please Feed the Trolls: 4chan and Vernacular Media Policy 4chan /b/ cyberbullying Jessi Slaughter Media Policy Vernacular Media Policy Curator's Note Remember the 1910s tropes about "little boys in short pants" pranking the nation via wirel ...

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Re: Please Feed the Trolls: 4chan and Vernacular Media Policy

Lots to think about there!

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Josh Heuman Texas A&M University, Department of Communication

Monday, August 23, 2010 — 5:08 pm

I’d been reading about informal, extralegal systems of property regulation, and so I’m really ...

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Unsettling Accounts: The Cultural Life of Hollywood Economics in Johnson v Rysher, Celador v Disney, and so on

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Josh Heuman Texas A&M University, Department of Communication

August 24, 2010

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formation. This point lurches around themes developed much further elsewhere (right now I’m thinking of Sean ...

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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

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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: Unsettling Accounts: The Cultural Life of Hollywood Economics in Johnson v Rysher, Celador v Disney, and so on