Tag archive for ‘Media Influence’
Sanjaya and the Mulatto Millenium
by: Mary Beltrán / University of Wisconsin-Madison
These days it’s a boon to star hopefuls not only to have an ethnically ambiguous look but to be open about their mixed heritage in their publicity.
Sometimes a kiss is just a kiss: (not) responding to the Richard Gere-Shipla Shetty controversy in India
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas-Austin
The Indian majority’s non-response to the Gere-Shetty kiss indicates reinforces the notion that diverse cultures in India have known how to live with each other for centuries
La televisión mexicana y la transformación del poder en México en el siglo XXI
by: Javier Esteinou Madrid / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco
Entramos en la fase histórica de vivir bajo el imperio
del nuevo poder informal de los medios de difusión colectivos. / We are entering a new historical phase in which we live under the empire of the new informal power of collective mass media.
Watching TV Without Pity
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Rip-on-your-favorite-show sites elevate the attempt to make bad TV more entertaining to a popular art form. In the Television Without Pity world, the show is no longer the final product, but rather the raw material to which value is added.
Seeing is Believing
by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar
Critics of photography envisioned a world where people had consumed the image and thought they had experienced the thing itself. It seems they weren’t far off the mark.
Prime Time Bullies
by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
In programmes ranging from Extreme Makeover to Ten Years Younger our flexible selves are seen to be empowered by experts striving to bring forth ‘the real you.’
Do Good TV?
by: Laurie Ouellette / Queens College, CUNY
ABC’s programming shifts toward “do-good” reality shows. What can explain ABC’s foray into the helping culture?
On The Set With Degrassi: The Next Generation ~ There’s Something to Be Said for Passion
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
Cast, crew, and personal perspectives on teen TV that matters.
Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: Flatworld
by: Dan Leopard / St. Mary’s College of California
In the second part in his discussion of screens in our daily lives, Leopard considers the implicit training and conditioning of ICT’s virtual and miltary-funded Flatworld Project.
The Worst Happened
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
While remaining largely unnoticed, Discovery Times’ Off to War provides a much needed perspective on the war in Iraq.
TV in the Season of Compassion Fatigue
by: Diane Negra / University of East Anglia
What, ultimately, drives the production and consumption of television disaster coverage?
When Mullahs Ride the Airwaves: Muslim Televangelists and the Saudi Connection
by: Nabil Echchaibi / Indiana University-Bloomington
An examination of Irqa’ TV’s role in the promotion of Islam in a post-9/11 media landscape.
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