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  On the Limits of #Lulz: Niche Taste and the Implosion of Satire

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  David Gurney Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  March 06, 2017

  the internet where anonymous attacks against minorities can earn plenty of #lulz. ...
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  The Norma Rae Icon: Protest as a Spectacle of the Inspirational Individual

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  Aimee Loiselle University of Connecticut

  April 30, 2017

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  the 1979 movie Norma Rae, which earned Field her first Academy Award. Crystal Lee Sutton was the ...
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  Re: The Flourish

  The rhetoric of fairness

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  Ken McAllister University of Arizona

  Monday, December 6, 2010 — 6:13 pm

  literally earn their living and are actively denied access to the marketplace except as embodied means of ...
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  Mapping Kanto Region Over a Town Near You: Pokémon Go and Fantasy in the Everyday

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  Jamie Henthorn Catawba College

  December 15, 2017

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  hosted a Global Catch Challenge. Pokémon Go (PG) players earned incremental in-game benefits, but the ...
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  From a fan to a leader: The ‘Angry Video Game Nerd’ case and movie ‘fanding’.

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  Argyrios Emmanouloudis University of Amsterdam

  December 15, 2017

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  earning an income. This is when fans  make use of micropatronage platforms like Kickstarter or Patreon to ...
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  Re: Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary

  Beta benefits and data-mining

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  Wednesday, May 4, 2011 — 9:50 am

  became a sensation and earned millions while still supposedly in alpha.  ...
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  Acafanning at FannibalFest

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  Lori Morimoto Independent Scholar

  December 19, 2018

  liminality has for me largely translated as a hard-earned awareness that some fandom conversations are not ...
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  The Joke in SNL’s Big Boy Appliances and “Man Food” Marketing

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  Emily Contois The University of Tulsa

  February 13, 2019

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  system. The ad proudly proclaims the appliances’ F- energy star rating, earned because they run on ...
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  Myopia and Focus in Event Reconstruction

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  Helmuth Rosales SITU Research

  February 09, 2022

  completeness. How extensive and resolved should a picture of the past be to earn a share in the representation ...
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  Re: No such thing as a slam dunk: Sport as unpredictable, undeniable reality television

  The race against the clock

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  Doug Battema Western New England University

  Tuesday, April 10, 2007 — 5:52 am

  really: Americans tend to embrace the scrappy underdog, the player or team who isn't supposed to win ...

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