Technofetishized TV: CSI, Bones, and ReGenesis as Science Fiction Television?
Contemporary science fiction series question the bounds of the genre and the rise of infallible technology.
Month: November 2007
Missing in Time: Madeleine McCann and the Media
How Madeleine went missing in an inundation of media coverage.
Huntsman v. Soderbergh and Copyright Law
How companies such as Cleanflix and Clearplay have led to new interpretations of copyright law and fair use.
Darkly Dreaming of Dexter: If Loving Him Is Wrong I Don’t Want To Be Right
An analysis of the appeal of the eponymous anti-hero in Showtime’s black comedy/crime drama “Dexter.”
Read morePost-Closet Television
Ron Becker / Miami University
Discusses the changing representations of gay and straight men in “post-closet” network television as well as the ideological implications of this new era.
What Does an American Television Network Look Like?
Television networks’ identities in a new media environment.
Read moreDefining Virtual Words: An Emerging Medium Collides With Popular Culture
Virtual worlds are becoming increasingly integrated into mainstream popular culture.
Burning Down the House: Community Access TV and the Downtown Art Shows
This was alternative media before the Net—a time when late night television was as surreal and real an experience as anyone could hope to have.
All I Want for Christmas is Some Cultural Policy in the Public Interest
The FCC has new plans to consolidate media ownership, but who’s talking about it?
Read moreSURF TV
Relationships between depicting “surfing” in television shows and surfing through the Internet and TV.
Read moreThe Forthcoming DTV Tsunami
DTV might be the most exciting television advance since the transistor, but it carries with it important implications for democratic communication.
Read morePutting the ‘F’ Back in Art
A reconsideration of the universality of flatulence-based humor.
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