A journal of television and new media

Archive for May, 2009

<strong>Gender in the Media Studies Blogosphere</strong><br /><em>Melissa A. Click and Nina B. Huntemann </em>

Gender in the Media Studies Blogosphere
Melissa A. Click and Nina B. Huntemann

A look at the gendering of the media scholars’ blogosphere.

<strong>Observe and Report What?</strong><br /> <em> Peter Lehman / Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College </em>

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.

<strong>Being in treatment on TV</strong><br /><em>Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh</em>

Being in treatment on TV
Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh

<strong>Public Television in a Small Country: the New Zealand ‘Experiment’ 20 Years On </strong><br /><em> Trisha Dunleavy / Victoria University of Wellington </em> 

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.

<strong>Interactivity and Awkward Comedy: <em>It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia</em> Live!</strong><br /><em>Drew Morton / UCLA</em>

Interactivity and Awkward Comedy: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Live!
Drew Morton / UCLA

<strong>Special Features CFP: Social Media</strong><br /><em>Flow Editorial Staff</em>

Special Features CFP: Social Media
Flow Editorial Staff

<strong>Carla’s, Callie’s, and the Suárez’s Long Lost Ancestors:  ESAA-TV and <em>¿Qué pasa U.S.A.?</em></strong><br />

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.?

<strong>Mobile Music South of the Border</strong><br /><em>Patrick Burkart and Christopher Joseph Westgate / Texas A&M</em>

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

<strong>Fine Intentions and Dire Delusions: The Simulated Ethos of the Greenhouse Effect</strong><br /><em>Ingrid Hoofd/National University of Singapore</em>

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.

<strong>Raymond Williams on the Elliptical</strong><br /><em>Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi</em>

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.

<strong>A Long-Tailed Media Omnivore’s Dilemma</strong><br /><em>Jonathan Nichols-Pethick / DePauw University</em>

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.

<strong>Jung and <em>Lost</em> </strong><br /><em>Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta </em> 

Jung and Lost
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta  

Friedman applies the theoretical work of Carl Jung to the popular television drama Lost.