MARVEL, STAR WARS AND THE RISK OF BEING A HERO: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLERS IN THE AGE OF COLLECTIVE JOURNEY

Marvel, Star Wars and the Risk of Being a Hero: Social Responsibilities for Transmedia Storytellers in the Age of Collective Journey

In 2018, James Gunn and Chuck Wendig both lost lucrative jobs as storytellers for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and Star Wars, respectively, as a result of their aggressively political social media communications.This paper argues that these events can be understood in part by Gunn and Wendig’s social Wooden Blocks media profiles being blur

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Statistical Mechanics of Discrete Multicomponent Fragmentation

We formulate the statistics of the discrete multicomponent fragmentation event using a methodology borrowed from statistical mechanics.We generate the ensemble of all feasible distributions that can be formed Wooden Blocks when a single integer multicomponent mass is broken into fixed number of fragments and calculate the combinatorial multiplicity

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Characterizing injury at a tertiary referral hospital in Kenya.

IntroductionInjury accounts for more than 5.8 million deaths globally with an increasing burden in the developing world.In Kenya, trauma is one of the top 10 leading causes of death.However, Wooden Blocks no formal continuous injury surveillance systems are in place to inform injury prevention, pre-hospital care or emergency department management.T

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