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“I Hear No Men Talking About It”
In his 2023 stand-up special, From Bleak to Dark, comedian Marc Maron wonders why men do not address the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
Tuula Kolehmainen
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Framing novelty in crowdfunding: Which words win support, where, and at what stakes
Abstract Research Summary We examine how promotional language (“hype”) in reward‐based crowdfunding is associated with campaign success, and whether those associations vary across sector contexts and with campaign execution burden. Using dictionary‐based text measures from 635 U.S. Kickstarter campaigns across five sectors, we distinguish three novelty‐
Agnieszka Kwapisz
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When does category spanning hurt or help producers?
Abstract Research Summary Scholars have theorized many factors shaping whether category spanning helps or hurts producers. We first synthesize evidence by meta‐analyzing 25 years of empirical research, which reveals a null effect of spanning on average, yet with significant subsample heterogeneity. To unpack it, we theorize and find that spanning hurts
Jungsoo Ahn +2 more
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Some humor is offensive, but does this convey a moral constraint on what comedians can include in their jokes? Using stand up bits and reflections on comedy from George Carlin, Louis C.K., and Doug Stanhope, various philosophies of humor, and the ...
Garrett, James H.
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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development
ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
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Spartan Daily, February 8, 1980 [PDF]
Volume 74, Issue 8https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6575/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Organic Representation as a Critical Media Approach to Leadership Studies in Popular Culture
ABSTRACT This article applies the critical media concept of organic representation to leadership studies as an analytic of how various creators in popular culture today are not just writing inclusive storytelling but, more notably, modeling new modes of production and self‐presentation that are actively challenging hegemonic industry practices and ...
Raffi Sarkissian
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This study investigates the positioning of comedians in streamed stand-up comedy specials (SSCSs). In an analysis of ten 2023 Netflix SSCSs, this research explores the multimodal meaning making in introductory sequences as well as the humorous and ...
Thomas Messerli
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The comic, not the comedy: effect of joke-origin-induced expectancy on cognitive humour. [PDF]
Objectives: The present set of experiments examined whether humour expectancy (determined by the joke teller) impacts the humour evaluation of jokes. Design: Across four experiments, participants rated jokes purportedly delivered via celebrity comedians
Johnson, A.J., Mistry, K.
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Order Without Judges: Customary Adjudication [PDF]
Scholarship on custom and law has largely focused on the creation and enforcement of informal rules, demonstrating and in some cases endorsing the existence of order without law.
Blocher, Joseph
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