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AUTHOR’S NOTE: The author wishes to thank Dennis Mumby for his insightful coments on drafts of this chapter. The manuscript was completed with support from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where the author is the 2002 Burress Faculty Fellow.

Correspondence: Patricia S. Parker, Uniniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Communication Studies, 115 Bingham, CB #3285, Chapel Hill, NC 27599; email: psparker@email.unc.edu

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