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  Let's Talk about Candy Crush: Surveillance and Social Games

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  Stephanie Vie University of Central Florida

  October 27, 2014

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  all time, is a free-to-play game that offers in-game purchases to players. It alone earned more money ... microtransactions. CCS earns an estimated 800K daily from in-game purchases. Microtransactions make up the ...
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  Ice Bucket Challenge Accepted

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  Eleanor Huntington University of Southern California

  December 09, 2014

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  the ice bucket challenge provided a win-win for stars by presenting a socially committed star persona ...
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  Copyleft and Academic Publishing

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  January 23, 2014

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  that are not open access? Have open-access journals earned the credibility to build our case for ...
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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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  earned a verbalization of his name, a tumblr built around a single visual pun on his name, and ...
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  Nathan for You and Cable's Contested Masculinities

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  Nick Marx Colorado State University

  August 21, 2014

  City, and Key & Peele have earned much of the attention in Comedy Central’s recent run of standout ...
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  It Takes Time to Get Acquainted- Paying Attention to Hollow

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  Mandy Rose i-Docs, Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England

  October 02, 2014

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  award-winning interactive documentary about post-industrial rural America, you come across Markella Gianato, in ...
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  “People around these parts don’t eat that way”: Representations of Midwestern Taste in Roseanne

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  Staci Stutsman Syracuse University

  January 10, 2014

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  Flyover States cultural capital Curator's Note  After the Connor family wins the Illinois state ...
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  Inside Out: Collaborative Creativity and the Pixar Braintrust

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  Christopher Holliday King's College London

  April 21, 2014

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  parent company too. The credits of Disney’s Oscar-winning Frozen (2013) includes a dedication to the ...
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  Hollywood's War Film

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  Clifton Archuleta Military Veteran

  January 16, 2014

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  Note Katherine Bigelow’s 2010 multiple Academy Award winning war film, The Hurt Locker, follows Staff ...
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  "Yeah, Maybe A Lighter Butch": Outlaw Gender and Female Masculinity in Orange Is The New Black

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  Sasha T. Goldberg Indiana University Bloomington

  March 12, 2014

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  face it, Butchie, you lose, I win" with a first-wife warning of her own: She tells the new ...

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