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The Power of Surprises: How Violet Myers and Others Are Changing the Game

• Historical frameworks: Adorno & Horkheimer’s culture industry vs. Fiske’s popular culture as semiotic democracy.
• Convergence & participation: Jenkins (2006); Baym (2015) on social media fandom.
• Algorithmic culture: Hallinan & Striphas (2016) on “recommendation logics”; Napoli (2019) on “algorithmic audience construction.”
• Narrative identity: Ricœur (1991) – narrative as self-constitution; applied to media characters as “transitional objects” (Winnicott via media studies).

By exploring these resources, you can gain a deeper understanding of the power of surprises and how they're being used to create positive change in the world.

Transmedia Storytelling

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The Algorithm as Curator

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