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Co-construction of Kayfabe: Interacting with AAW Heels
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Five Modern Exorcism Films to Watch
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source: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498519090/Possessed-Women-Haunted-States-Cultural-Tensions-in-Exorcism-Cinema October 13, 2017 – When I first stumbled onto the blog It’s Playing, But With Research, I was jealous. Jealous! With envy as…
Job Search: Assistant Professor of Corporate Communication
Come join us at Dominican University! Source: Job Search: Assistant Professor of Corporate Communication
Online Relationships with Wrestlers
These are some thoughts I had in conversation with the students of my online fan studies course. We were looking at the impact of social media on…… Read more “Online Relationships with Wrestlers”
Fans of Trump, Fans of Jesus
To start. I want to return to the original conceptionalization of fanaticism defining fandom. So, let’s do a dive back into what this word means. Merriam-Webster defines…… Read more “Fans of Trump, Fans of Jesus”
Customer-Fans and the Happily Exploited
Time for another story (I appear to have a lot to tell!); this time, about the experiences I had at the biggest comic book convention in the…… Read more “Customer-Fans and the Happily Exploited”
Power as Causing Fractured Fandoms
For the 2016 Midwest PCA/ACA conference, I presented a paper on my fractured fandom project titled “‘Power is an allusion’: Referencing power as causing fractures in fandom…… Read more “Power as Causing Fractured Fandoms”
Gendering Hatsune Miku
Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I have been working on our concept of the networked gender, building off the concept of the networked self to…… Read more “Gendering Hatsune Miku”
