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  Re: Performing Meta-Catharsis: Hulk Hogan's "Redemption" Arc as Racist Apologia

  It's the little things...

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Tuesday, October 6, 2015 — 2:49 am

  I have not noticed that this edit has been performed. I recall the entrance music you reference. Have they edited out DDP altogether, muted his entrance music, or what modes and methods of post-production tinkering are going into these archival retcons? ...
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  Re: Legacy Products: WWE Economics and Fandom Struggle with Race

  More A Cultural Appetizer Than a De-Marginalized Main Course

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Friday, October 9, 2015 — 3:19 am

  Kristine, great post that draws out a series of continuous (and perhaps unending) tensions that exist between wrestlers and audiences, booking and crowd support, traditional status quo versus corporate (e.g. public) incentive. To quote a phrase often expr ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Myth of COLBERT NATION Millenials?

  Politics? Why Colbother...

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Wednesday, September 2, 2015 — 6:46 pm

  Shaun, in the acousemetre words of Talk Soup, "Sooo Meaty!" You lay out the hyperbolic conundrum that surfaces when discussing the open-ended media effects political satires like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have on audiences (and mille ...
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  Re: The Myth of COLBERT NATION Millenials?

  Driver, Passenger, They're Both Sitting in a Machine...

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Friday, September 4, 2015 — 3:43 am

  As academic but perhaps even more as informed viewer-fan, it is my fear [as hybrid Gen-X'er with Millennial tendencies] the programming paradox you suggest faces even greater danger of losing its social awareness as Stephen will no doubt be (corporat ...
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  Re: Can Stephen Colbert Uphold David Letterman’s Legacy—and Tone?

  The Irony of Reading the Profane as Sacred...

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Wednesday, September 2, 2015 — 3:13 am

  Kelli, excellent cache of secondary sources that rev up tertiary discussion while simultaneously functioning as a meta-demonstration on Colbert's synergistic social media transition into this new/old position. I note your particular observation towar ...
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  Re: Colbert and the Talk Show Games

  Will he be Col-better or a Col-bore?

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Tuesday, September 1, 2015 — 1:57 am

  Ethan, thank you for your post and great job kick-starting what we hope to be a weeklong rapport in the spirit of this trickster entertainer. I would agree with your assessment that even Letterman leaned frequently on a bygone stable of recurring sketches ...
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  Re: The Colbert Report as Millennial Pedagogy

  Backward Learning is Forward-Thinking...

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Friday, September 4, 2015 — 4:07 am

  Shaun, thank you for the feedback and commentary that extend the duality of pleasure-problem dichotomy when trying to discern whether a form like satire can function primarily as education, or at least impart the kind of wisdom that spurs 1) audience unde ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Microcelebrity in the Paper of Record

  Geo-Social "ME"-dia

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Wednesday, March 25, 2015 — 8:43 am

  Jennifer, this is a really interesting introduction to what sounds like a rich study you have gained footing in. I am drawn to the literature for future interest and how cases of Self-projection digitally not only translates into perceived versions of Sel ...
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  Re: When Algorithms Collide: (Failing to) Manage GoT Spoilers Using Science

  "Shhh! Silence(r) is Golden"

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Thursday, September 25, 2014 — 2:05 pm

  Jamie, fantastic area of discussion relating the social media quandaries audiences face with texts like GoT. GoT perhaps more than any other popular entertainment has nearly performed the impossible when it comes to fans of the literary source material st ...
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  Re: Appraising the adapted Red Wedding’s fidelity to emotional impact

  Every [Person] Has a Code

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  Garret Castleberry Mid-America Christian University

  Monday, September 22, 2014 — 9:24 pm

  Andrea, thank you for your contribution. What a dynamic way to kick off our Game of Thrones week with your examination of a key **SPOILER** which is one of several that arguably helped catapult GoT into the pop culture zeitgeist. The translation of source ...

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