Midwest Popular Culture Association
Editorial Introduction: Livestreaming and TelevisionCarrieLynn D. Reinhard
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SPECIAL ISSUE: Serious Play: Livestreaming, Community, and Popular Culture
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Livestreaming as Popular CultureErik Kersting, Janelle Malagon, and Christopher J. Olson
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Before You Step into the Stream
Erik Kersting, Janelle Malagon, and Stuart Moulthrop
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Live Streaming and Archiving the Hegemony of PlayTaylore Woodhouse
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From Parallel Play to Co-Play: Forms of Play in Live Streaming Labor
Kyle Bohunicky, Lindsay Watkins, and Jeremy Frusco
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Metagaming Attention: Defining the Metagame Through the Economy of Attention on Twitch
Ailea Merriam-Pigg
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Watch Me Make History: Reenacting and Remaking the Past in Historical Game Live Streams
Kirk Lundblade
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Intimacy Games: Critical Role‘s Struggle to Maintain Its Tabletop Authenticity
Erik Kersting
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The Video Video Game: On Watching Let’s Plays
Melanie Oberg
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“No Gods, No Kings, Only Mon!”: Twitch Plays Pokémon as a Case Study in Folkloric Recreation
Peter Cullen Bryan
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Not Going Viral: Amateur Livestreamers, Volunteerism, and Privacy on Discord
Nicholas-Brie Guarriello
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Moving the Show Online: An Analysis of DIY Virtual Venues
Peter J. Woods
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REGULAR SUBMISSIONS
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“Just Jessica Jones”: Challenging Trauma Representation and New Trauma Metaphors in Melissa Rosenberg’s Jessica Jones
Sean Travers
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Conceptual Blending in Presidential Politics: How The Great Gatsby Explained Donald Trump, 2015-2018
E. Fletcher McClellan and Kayla Gruber
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Apocalypse Now: Performing Imperialism and the Apocalypse
Amanda Dawson
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2021 Michael T. Marsden Award Winner
The Coffeehouse, The Diner, The Bar: The Rise and Fall of Television’s Favorite Third Places
Emma J. Gist
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Singing Truth to Power: Folk Music and Political Resistance in Steven Conrad’s Patriot
Lynn D. Zimmerman
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STUDENT SHOWCASE
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“Hey, What’s the Matter with Your Friend?”: Disability and Productive Staring in The X-Files
Mitch Ploskonka
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Love is (Color)Blind: Constructing Race Non-Visually on Reality TV
Kendall Artz
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We Ate Them to Destroy Them: Carnivores, Cannibals, and the Critique of Mass-Market Feminism in the Age of Consumption
Emily Naser-Hall
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REVIEWS
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The Popular Culture Studies Journal Reviews: Introduction
Christopher J. Olson
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