Archive for May, 2009
Gender in the Media Studies Blogosphere
Melissa A. Click and Nina B. Huntemann
A look at the gendering of the media scholars’ blogosphere.
Observe and Report What?
Peter Lehman / Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College
A consideration of masculinity, perversity and the spectacle of the penis in the new Jody Hill film Observe and Report.
Public Television in a Small Country: the New Zealand ‘Experiment’ 20 Years On
Trisha Dunleavy / Victoria University of Wellington
A reassessment of New Zealand’s public service television experiment on the twentieth anniversary of its implementation.
Carla’s, Callie’s, and the Suárez’s Long Lost Ancestors: ESAA-TV and ¿Qué pasa U.S.A.?
Yeidy Rivero / Indiana University-Bloomington
An examination of the Emergency School Aid Act and one of its media ‘children,’ ¿Qué pasa U.S.A.?
Mobile Music South of the Border
Patrick Burkart and Christopher Joseph Westgate / Texas A&M
A discussion of the infrastructure behind the Mexican mobile music industry
Fine Intentions and Dire Delusions: The Simulated Ethos of the Greenhouse Effect
Ingrid Hoofd/National University of Singapore
An analysis of speed-elitist capitalism and the self-contradictory nature of global warming policy.
Raymond Williams on the Elliptical
Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
A look at displaced television viewing and its effects on our understanding of the medium.
A Long-Tailed Media Omnivore’s Dilemma
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick / DePauw University
Consideration of the opportunities available to local television production and consumption in a world of new technologies and new economies.
Jung and Lost
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta
Friedman applies the theoretical work of Carl Jung to the popular television drama Lost.
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