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  The NBA, FanDuel, and the New Betting Economy of Sports Television

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  Steven Secular University of California, Santa Barbara

  March 25, 2018

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  The NBA, FanDuel, and the New Betting Economy of Sports Television Sports Television NBA Mobile Fantasy Leagues DFS betting Curator's Note The creation and widespread legalization of Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) has irrevocably altered how people engag ...
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  Defeating Sheng Long: How a Mistranslation Changed the Canon of a Franchise

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  Argyrios Emmanouloudis University of Amsterdam

  March 19, 2018

  game was translated in English, the localization team mistranslated Ryu’s winning quote “If you cannot ... overcome the Rising Dragon Punch, you cannot win!”, to “You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance”. This ...
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  All Too Superhuman

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  Tyler Zoanni New York University

  March 10, 2018

  prize-winning 2012 Paralympics trailer. While the earlier ad featured only athletes, the 2016 iteration shows ... people doing ordinary things as well. “Yes, I can”: drive a racecar, win a race, dance with verve. But ...
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  Really, Queen?: Parsing Life Post-Drag Race

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  Andrew Owens DePaul University

  March 02, 2018

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  learned that you don't need a grand prize to see your star rise. Win, lose,  or draw, that "big ...
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  Re: A New Kind of FIGs

  This is quite an intriguing

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  Argyrios Emmanouloudis University of Amsterdam

  Wednesday, January 17, 2018 — 2:02 pm

  curious about its position when used with other services that could also keep a fraction of the earnings ...
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  A New Kind of FIGs

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  Tanya D. Zuk, Ph.D. Georgia State University

  January 15, 2018

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  artist, but to earn a return on investment.  Fan investment groups or equity crowdfunding joins ...
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  Gacha Gonna Get Ya: Watching Mobile Card Collecting

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  Caitlin Casiello Yale University

  January 07, 2018

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  last for 15 to 20 minutes as the player spends hundreds of “loveca stones” trying to win the desired ...
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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

  1 comment

  earning an income. This is when fans  make use of micropatronage platforms like Kickstarter or Patreon to ...
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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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  Purifying strategies and the confederate diaspora

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  R. Brandon Anderson Gustavus Adolphus College

  October 09, 2017

  of confederate imagery reflects the endgame of post-Civil War southern authors; they intended to win ...

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