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  Re: The Trumpster and the Statesman: Civility/Incivility and the Limits of Good Government

  I appreciate the focus on

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Wednesday, June 1, 2016 — 5:24 pm

  think are qualified to run a country in ways that fit our political beliefs do these more personal ...
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  Magic as Aesthetic Event

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  Cameron Kunzelman Georgia State University

  June 07, 2016

  2 comments

  running into each other at maximum force. He has a single out to win the game, and he takes it not just as ...
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  The Question Concerning Technological Humor

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  June 07, 2016

  a computer to tell a joke is thus less about revealing the essence of humor—the craft of learning how to ...
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  Selling Magic Through Spellslingers

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  Nick Bestor University of Texas at Austin

  June 08, 2016

  4 comments

  of Spellslingers run between twenty to thirty minutes long; in the interest of brevity I have chosen ...
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  "One Turn of One Game": On Chance, Variance, and Misplays

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  June 10, 2016

  off home run in baseball; it is something that happens rarely, and when it does it can provide some of ...
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  Beta-Testing Ublend As a Centralized Course Hub

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  Pete Rorabaugh Kennesaw State University

  August 30, 2016

  1 comment

  networks-- primarily Twitter and self-hosted web domains running WordPress-- the class needs a centralized ... seeing behind the curtain. Our link to Ublend will give my students a unique kind experiential learning ... projects in the last five years, I’ve learned that intention and vision matter. My interactions with CEO ...
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  Make America Dank Again: Why Political Memes Don’t Work

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  Melanie Wolske California State University Long Beach

  September 07, 2016

  2 comments

  much sense, they don’t have a traditional punchline, and they are deliberately shoddy. This runs ...
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  Meme-Making for Digital Literacy

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  Renee Hobbs Media Education Lab, University of Rhode Island, Harrington School of Communication and Media

  September 12, 2016

  1 comment

  they not share and why? High school students learned about social media and explored the concept of ... described their feelings of anxiety about the balance between play and learning that the activity ...
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  Fandom Matters (Or At Least Its Dollars Do)

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  Carolyn Cocca State University of NY, College at Old Westbury

  September 23, 2016

  1 comment

  dissatisfied fans will raise their voices, having learned that the company is listening. ...
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  "Avengers" Art Contest: Professionalizing Fans or Fanning Professionals?

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  Lesley Willard Emerson College

  September 24, 2016

  collaborate on a limited-run Avengers Origins comic that would be showcased at SDCC, sold in stores, and ... artists and gifted a ticket to Comic-Con for a photo-op-cum-signing session. Long-running blockbuster ...

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