Archive for December, 2008
A Señora Drinks Café with a Fea in Bogota, the New Hip TV Production Place in Latin America
Yeidy M. Rivero / Indiana University
An examination of the international success and sale of Yo soy Betty, la fea and other telenovelas.
Goodbye Rabbit Ears: Thoughts About the Digital TV Transition
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara
Thoughts about how digital television conversion will affect television studies and the public.
Californication: Trouble in Body Guy Paradise
Peter Lehman / Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College
A look at sex, masculinity and “the body guy” in Californication.
The Rumor Bomb: On Convergence Culture and Politics
Jayson Harsin / American University of Paris
Reformulating Virilio to account for the speed and power of rumor in convergent times.
E-Waste: Elephant in the Living Room
Richard Maxwell / Queens College-CUNY & Toby Miller / UC Riverside
Media Studies as a field must recognize the dire environmental effects of discarded electronics.
Free TV: White Spaces & Broadcast Flag
Patrick Burkart / Texas A&M
A look at the public interest in newly unlicensed “white space” for wireless networking and also a consideration of the impending copy protections threatening digital television signals.
What a Whirlwind: Showbiz Talk and Political Snark on Chelsea Lately
Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M Corpus Christi
A look at the politics of E!’s Chelsea Lately.
Degrassi’s Always Greener on the Other Side: Canadian Television, U.S. Handling
Nafissa Thompson-Spires / Vanderbilt University
An analysis of Degrassi censorship practices for a U.S. audience
‘East’ Talking to ‘West’: The Digital Mediation of Arundhati Roy
Ingrid M. Hoofd / National University of Singapore
An examination of Arundhati Roy’s popularity with the American left-wing as well as her relation to issues of Easterness, Westernness, and digital mediation.
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