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  Legitimizing the Feminine?: Regulation and the Politics of Cheerleading Injuries

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  Bryce McNeil Georgia State University

  May 23, 2011

  11 comments

  Legitimizing the Feminine?: Regulation and the Politics of Cheerleading Injuries Sports Injuries sports regulation femininity concussions Curator's Note Just as male athletes have gotten bigger, cheerleading maneuvers have gotten increasingly acrobat ...
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  The Biggest Loser: The Television Show that Never Ends?

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  Steve Herro College of Southern Nevada

  May 17, 2011

  4 comments

  people to sign up with a partner to try to lose weight and win prizes. The winners won trips to L.A. to ...
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  Paratextual limits and subcultural capital

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  Saturday, May 7, 2011 — 2:51 pm

  engagement with games by people with no attachment to the subculture may conversely earn cultural capital, ...
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  Re: Digital Labor in Participatory Television

  Windows of Change?

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  Thursday, May 5, 2011 — 8:34 pm

  inclusion on satellite and cable TV lineups that wants to earn per subscriber fees and increase ad revenue ...
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  Digital Labor in Participatory Television

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  Adam Fish Lancaster University, Sociology

  May 05, 2011

  6 comments

  Digital Labor in Participatory Television work TV television Labor in the Media Industries labor immaterial gore fish ethnography digital current tv current culture convergence anthropology Al Gore adam fish adam Curator's Note From 2006-2009, while ...
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  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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  Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  May 03, 2011

  8 comments

  Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary video games playtesting labor Curator's Note Playtesters play videogames that are unstable, unbalanced and riddled with broken code. Their labor is also unstable in that playtesters are frequently short-term contr ...
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  The Hidden Face of the Adult Film Industry

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  Mary Erickson University of Oregon

  May 02, 2011

  5 comments

  workers are left with fewer opportunities to earn money to support themselves and their families. An ...
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  Losing to Win: Twin Peaks and Serial "Failure"

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  Anne Moore Tufts University

  April 20, 2011

  4 comments

  Losing to Win: Twin Peaks and Serial "Failure" Twin Peaks TV Failure soap operas ...
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  The Failure of Failure in Terriers

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  April 18, 2011

  6 comments

  on commercial television. We like our televisual failures to be villainously earned, melodramatically ...

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