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  Esports Was Always Physical: Or, Celebrating with firebathero

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  Will Partin University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

  January 15, 2019

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  match. Winning on StarCraft ’s biggest stage meant a post-game celebration like no other, and everyone in ...
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  “It’s always ‘dark-girl hour’ on my channel:” An Analysis of  YouTuber  Jackie  Aina  and  the Redefinition of  Black Beauty Standards in Digital Spaces 

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  Melissa Monier University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  January 09, 2019

  award-winning beauty influencer and YouTuber, boasting over 2.8 million subscribers,  one of the only black beauty ...
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  YouTube activism or YouTube art?

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  James MacDowell University of Warwick

  January 07, 2019

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  Curator's Note "Nobody Wins" (2018), by the YouTuber Sarah Zedig, is a video-essay response to ...
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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 Warden Game: Power and Politics in a Recovered 1980s Text Adventure

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  Magdalena Donea University of Washington

  December 09, 2018

  opportunity to see the outcome of those actions. You earn points that are roughly inversely proportional to ...
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  Fun and Games: ABC's game show reboots

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  ckearney University of Florida

  November 12, 2018

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  15 years, Clark would remain host, but the show would increase the prize winnings to $100,000. Yet, ...
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  National Identity as Tactics, Tactics as National Identity

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  Wolfgang Boehm Georgia State University

  June 16, 2018

  Guardiola, winning truly isn’t everything. The game needs to be played in a certain way. Guardiola might be ... Brazilians play in the tournament, do they both have to win and properly represent their national identity, ... tactics of the German national team. They win games, but is it the beautiful game, is it the right way to ...
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  “I’ve Seen My Death…This Ain’t It”: Putting the White Nationalist Myth of the West to Rest

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  Brian Steinbach Kansas University

  April 29, 2018

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  gun-slinging glory, tend to win. Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell), for example, only partakes in violence in this ...
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  Re: The NBA, FanDuel, and the New Betting Economy of Sports Television

  I wonder if we can categorize

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  Michael Blight North Central College

  Wednesday, March 28, 2018 — 2:02 pm

  winning; (2) people who want to win first, but are rooting for their favorite team's success; (3) ... people who want "their team" to win first, but winning in fantasy is cool, too; (4) etc. Your ... payouts. The euphoric experience of winning a bit pot certainly tugs at positive affect. On the other hand, ...
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  Changes in fantasy sports centered around FanDuel and the NBA's involvement in esports

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  Michael Blight North Central College

  March 25, 2018

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  centered around which Twitch streamer will win the PUBG tournament  sooner rather than later. ...

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