A journal of television and new media

Archive for February, 2012

<strong>Examining the Jeremy Lin Phenomenon Through a Critical Lens</strong> <br /> <em>Erica Chito Childs / Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center</em>

Examining the Jeremy Lin Phenomenon Through a Critical Lens
Erica Chito Childs / Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Is the media case of Jeremy Lin really evidence of a post-racial America?

<strong>The Great Wikipedia Blackout, The Stop Online Piracy Act, and You</strong> <br /> <em>Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln</em>

The Great Wikipedia Blackout, The Stop Online Piracy Act, and You
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln

What underlie the Internet blackout are protection of content on the one hand and freedom of access and information on the other.

<strong>Now Watching: Black Web Series and the Promised Land of New Media</strong><br/><em>TreaAndrea M. Russworm / University of Massachusetts, Amherst</em>

Now Watching: Black Web Series and the Promised Land of New Media
TreaAndrea M. Russworm / University of Massachusetts, Amherst

A look at how the Internet has become a hosting powerhouse for thousands of amateur and professional videos, serialized web shows, direct-to-Internet films, minisodes, animation, documentaries, vlogs featuring blacks.

<strong>Loose Women – Women’s talk and ideological restriction</strong> <br /> <em>Faye Davies / Birmingham City University</em>

Loose Women – Women’s talk and ideological restriction
Faye Davies / Birmingham City University

An exploration of gossip and gender on television.

<strong>Biometrics and Machinima, Reanimated:<br/> Jacqueline Goss’s “Stranger Comes to Town”</strong><br/><em>Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi</em>

Biometrics and Machinima, Reanimated:
Jacqueline Goss’s “Stranger Comes to Town”
Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi

Dale Hudson discusses the use of machinima as critique of U.S. labor and immigration laws.

<strong>Television studies, new media, and the divided curriculum</strong> <br /> <em>Graeme Turner / University of Queensland</em>

Television studies, new media, and the divided curriculum
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland

How the bifurcation between “old” and “new” media continues to (mis)inform teaching in universities.

<strong>The Dialectic of The Weather Channel</strong><br /><em>Doyle Greene / Independent Scholar</em>

The Dialectic of The Weather Channel
Doyle Greene / Independent Scholar

The Weather Channel, paternalistic meteorology, and individual domination of nature.

<strong>The Blurring of Fame and Talent: Female Celebrity and the Glossy Gossip Sector</strong> <br /> <em>Rebecca Feasey / Bath Spa University</em>

The Blurring of Fame and Talent: Female Celebrity and the Glossy Gossip Sector
Rebecca Feasey / Bath Spa University

The blurred boundaries between labor, performance, fame, and talent in celebrity rags.

<strong>The Return of Rosie: OWN, Celebrity, and the Branding of Basic Cable</strong> <br /> <em>Julia Himberg / University of Southern California</em>

The Return of Rosie: OWN, Celebrity, and the Branding of Basic Cable
Julia Himberg / University of Southern California

What does The Oprah Winfrey network say about basic cable’s reach for niche audiences? What can OWN tell us about contemporary practices of branding and celebrity production? And, how are these practices embedded in the structures of the basic cable marketplace?

<strong>David Lynch’s Secret Passages</strong><br/><em>Akira Mizuta Lippit / University of Southern California</em>

David Lynch’s Secret Passages
Akira Mizuta Lippit / University of Southern California

Connecting David Lynch’s texts through absences, holes, and secret passageways.

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