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  Ice Bucket Challenge Accepted

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  Eleanor Huntington University of Southern California

  December 09, 2014

  4 comments

  the ice bucket challenge provided a win-win for stars by presenting a socially committed star persona ...
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  Pepe el Toro versus Rocky Balboa: Navigating Mexican Cinema on YouTube

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  Misha MacLaird Independent Scholar

  November 20, 2014

  himself out of financial debt. At first comically inept, Pepe manages to win several fights, and the film ...
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  Re: Fandom Referendum: Fan Cultures and Civic Embodiment

  Leslie is the ultimate fan

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  Danielle Leek Grand Valley State University

  Saturday, November 8, 2014 — 8:37 pm

  America where people are as interested in what happens in the White House as their are in who wins The ...
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  Democracy Play: VOTE!!!

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  Danielle Leek Grand Valley State University

  November 05, 2014

  2 comments

  by Epic Games, Inc. and ChAIR Entertainment, the partners who also created the award-winning iOS ...
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  Fandom Referendum: Fan Cultures and Civic Embodiment

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  Christopher M. Cox Georgia State University

  November 03, 2014

  2 comments

  Fandom Referendum: Fan Cultures and Civic Embodiment Representing Democracy Curator's Note Pop culture conventions such as Comic-Con International (CCI) facilitate an increasingly frictionless relationship between fans and producers of cultural conte ...
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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

  7 comments

  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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  Re: It Takes Time to Get Acquainted - Paying Attention to Hollow

  the meaning of the bonus

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  Sandra Gaudenzi University of the West of England

  Friday, October 3, 2014 — 9:35 am

  "winning", and maybe in being better than the other players) I believe that interactive documentaries offer ...
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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

  1 comment

  award-winning interactive documentary about post-industrial rural America, you come across Markella Gianato, in ...
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  Picking on Thomas Piketty

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  September 19, 2014

  general public will understand that impact. For example, Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman has ...
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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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