9.07 
Strat-O-Matic and the Baseball Tarot: Sense and Synchronicity in Sports and Games
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta (10)
February 20, 2009
A look at chance in Strat-O-Matic baseball, and what it has to tell us about gameplay in general.
On the Digital Music Wars: Where Are We Now?
Patrick Burkart / Texas A&M University
This essay asks and attempts to answer the question, “In our waning economy, what is the future of the digital music industry?”
Facebook and the Return of the Repressed, or Watching Political Comedy on a Social Network
Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M – Corpus Christi
An examination of the personalized nature of political videos on Facebook.
“Pain can be controlled: you just disconnect it”: Terminating Public Access Television
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick / DePauw University
A call to action to save public access television.