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From Inclusion Riders to Cultivating Care: What Lifetime Can Teach The Industry about Entertainment By and For Women
Miranda J. Banks and Kristin J. Lieb / Emerson CollegeMiranda Banks and Kristin Lieb map how The Lifetime Television Network has cultivated an increasingly inclusive and compelling model of media made by and for diverse women.
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Just Saying No: Labour, Gender, and Refusal in Twitch Streaming
Alison Harvey / University of LeicesterAlison Harvey contextualizes Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins’ refusal to stream with female gamers within digital culture practices and historically gendered patterns of labour.
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The Female Labor of Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair Playing House
Kelly Kessler / DePaul UniversityKelly Kessler considers Playing House and the considerable labor performed by its creator/stars Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Claire to nurture the program’s content, advertisers, and fans.
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Fandom, Fan Studies, and the New Education
Josh Stenger / Wheaton College (Massachusetts)Josh Stenger considers how fan studies is uniquely positioned to help colleges and universities reexamine, and hopefully even transform, how, whom, and why they educate.
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Punk, Disco, Porn—The Deuce ’77—Part 1
Matthew Tchepikova-Treon / the University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesMatthew Tchepikova-Treon analyzes the complex depiction of seventies punk culture in Season Two of The Deuce with specific focus on historical contextualization and formal aesthetics of the (sub)cultural movement.