Volume 11 
“Mechanisms for non-elite voices:” Mass-Observation and Twitter
Pamela Ingleton / McMaster University (4)
May 21, 2010
A look at Twitter’s placement in the Library of Congress within historical perspective.
Caching and Crashing the Médiathèque
Mél Hogan / Concordia University
Mel Hogan investigates the politics of archiving video art.
What’re youse lookin’ at, Meathead?: Locating Archie Bunker Across Archives
Kimberly Springer / Williams College
Kimberly Springer looks at how America’s “most lovable bigot”, Archie Bunker, lives through the archives.
A Walter Ong Artifact Travels Through Media, Time, and Meaning
Abigail Lambke / Saint Louis University
Moving through oral and written, artifact and archive at the Walter J. Ong archive at Saint Louis University.
More in this category:
- Beyond Netflix and TiVo: Rethinking HBO Through the Archive
Shayne Pepper / North Carolina State University - The Views of the Feminist Archive
Alexandra Juhasz / Pitzer College - A Case for Imperfection: Confessions of a Digital Restoration Artist
Pauline Stakelon / University of California – Santa Barbara - Infernal Archive: Medial States of Matter in the Netherlands Institue for Sound and Vision
Shannon Mattern / The New School - Husker, Huckster: The Archival Brando
Lisa Patti / Cornell University - Special Issue: The Archive
- Branding Romania II, or, the End of Choice
Anikó Imre and Alice Bardan / University of Southern California - Post Racialism, Romance, and The Real World D.C.
Jon Kraszewski / Seton Hall University - From “Play to Display”: Parkour as Media-Mimetics, or Nature Reclamation?
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts – Amherst - 2010 Census and Grassroots Communities: Composing a Visual Heritage in the Digital Age
Konrad Ng / University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa - Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution: Serving Up A Side of Individual Blame
Melissa Click / University of Missouri, Columbia - Sweatin’ Out the Shame
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine - Oh My, What Big Ambitions You Have!: ABC’s 1965 Revision of “Little Red Riding Hood”
Quinn Miller / Hampshire College - Introduction to Oogabooga Studies
David Parry / University of Texas, Dallas - The Return of the Digital Native: Interfaces, access, and racial difference in District 9
Kevin Hamilton & Lisa Nakamura / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Tiger! Tiger! Burning Bright
David L. Andrews / University of Maryland - Bing: An Illiterate Cure for Search Overload
Daren C. Brabham and Annie Brabham / University of Utah - An Empty Set
Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University - ‘Wanna be on top?’: America’s Next Top Model and evaluating presentational performance as televisual skill
James Bennett / London Metropolitan University - Watching for Botox
Julia Lesage / University of Oregon - Marshall’s Children
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University - Postfeminist Primary Colors: Coding Femininities in Media Culture
Hannah Hamad / Massey University - The D2D Release: Notes on a Burgeoning Market
Amanda Klein / East Carolina University - Watching The Masters: Golf Becomes Exciting (In All the Wrong Ways)
Paul Achter / University of Richmond - While you were out: The Canadian Media Have Disappeared
Dr. Zoë Druick / Simon Fraser University - Time Wasted
Ernest Mathijs / The University of British Columbia - Buffy Failed: True Blood and the Accommodation of Vampires
Jon Stratton / Curtin University of Technology - The Spelling Bee, Model Minorities, and American Citizenship
Shilpa Davé / Brandeis University - Gourmet Drama: A Tasty Case of Narrating the Nation
Jiwon Ahn / Keene State College - How Chatroulette Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About the Internet
Tama Leaver / Curtin University of Technology - Logorama’s Chaotic Critique of Corporate Rule
Esteban del Río / University of San Diego - Flow Favorites: The Bronze Fonz
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Flow Favorites: Digg, Flickr, and the Colonizing of Bridging Texts
Vanessa Au / University of Washington - Flow Favorites: Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara - Flow Favorites: Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin - Flow Favorites: A Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University - Justin Lin, Asian American Cinema & Social Media
Konrad Ng / University of Hawai’i at Mānoa - Coming to a Beach Near You! Examinations of Ethnic and State Identity in Jersey Shore
Jon Kraszewski / Seton Hall University - Dark Techné in Sports Advertisements
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts - Dracu-fictions and Brand Romania
Anikó Imre and Alice Bardan / University of Southern California - “More drinkin’, less thinkin’, fewer teeth, and beer”
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Camp But Were Afraid to Ask
Quinn Miller / Hampshire College - The Olympic Games and the Politicization of Everyday Life
David L. Andrews / University of Maryland - Face to Face with the E-Waste of Tomorrow at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show
Max Dawson / Northwestern University - Phonography: Lessons Learned from Teaching Audio Technologies
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine - Not So New
David Parry / University of Texas at Dallas - “I See You?”: Gender and Disability in Avatar
Michael Peterson, Laurie Beth Clark, and Lisa Nakamura - Thinking the Box
Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University - “Attack of Boss-zilla!” – Female Conflict and Generational Discord…
Hannah Hamad / Massey University - A Married Couple: Reality TV’s progenitor turns 40
Zoë Druick / Simon Fraser University - The BBC Presenter Pay Scandal: The Political Economy of Television Fame
James Bennett / London Metropolitan University - Irreconcilable Differences: Gender and Labor in the Video Game Workplace
Nina B. Huntemann / Suffolk University - Avatar as Technological Tentpole
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University - Twitter Revolution
Vanessa Au / University of Washington - Window Dressing: Spectacular Costuming in MTV’s The City
- Remembering Latina/o Television
Esteban del Río / University of San Diego - The Tedious Fun of Cosmopolitan Shopping: Man Shops Globe
Jiwon Ahn / Keene State College - Privacy, Openness, and a New Persona: Why David Letterman’s Interoffice Escapades Took This Longtime Fan by Surprise
Kelli Marshall / University of Toledo - FlashForward or FlashBack: Television Distribution in 2010?
Tama Leaver / Curtin University of Technology - Does “Deep Packet Inspection” Turn You On?
Becky Lentz / McGill University - Television and the Yuletide Cult
Ernest Mathijs / The University of British Columbia - Re-thinking Indian Arranged Marriage and Matchmaking on American Television
- DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket Marketing Campaigns
Jon Kraszewski / Seton Hall University - “Rabid”, “obsessed”, and “frenzied”: Understanding Twilight Fangirls and the Gendered Politics of Fandom
Melissa Click / University of Missouri - Thoughts from Oslo, Norway: Film Festivals and Expanding the Moral Imagination
Konrad Ng/ University of Hawaii, Mānoa - The Foreignness of Race
Aniko Imre / USC - Immigration in the News
Carolyn E. Brown / American University - Of American Slouch and English Fervour
David L. Andrews / University of Maryland - True Love Will Find Daniel Johnston in the End (on Your iPhone)
Quinn Miller / Hampshire College - Stage Left: Glee and the Textual Politics of Difference
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine - Being on Television
Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University - Networking Families: Battlestar Galactica and the Values of Quality
Jordan Lavender-Smith / City University of New York - New Media is Neither New nor Media. Discuss.
David Parry / University of Texas at Dallas - Reading Narrative Excess in MMA
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst - Vampire Politics
- Television Celebrity: Extras and the Cultural Value of TV Fame
James Bennett / London Metropolitan University - DAD TV – Postfeminism and the Paternalization of US Television Drama
Hannah Hamad / Massey University - The Last Days of Videotape
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University - Media Event 2.0: Guy Laliberté’s Final Frontier
Zoë Druick / Simon Fraser University - FlashForward: Pacing and Script
Julia Lesage/ University of Oregon - BET’s Baldwin Hills: Injecting Race and Class into the Projective Drama
- Hung in America
Peter Lehman/Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College - Tall, Dark, and America: Latino Authenticity and Appropriation in General Market Television
Esteban del Río / University of San Diego - The Power of “Chitchat” : Global Talk Show, Beauty Chatter
Jiwon Ahn / Keene State College - Ethnic Rock Stars and Asian American Stereotypes: Will the real Ajay Bhatt stand up?
Shilpa Davé / Brandeis University - Learning with Lily Allen: Copyright Criminals or Complexity and Confusion?
Tama Leaver / Curtin University of Technology - Regulation is Boring
Becky Lentz / McGill University - Threat or Treat: Film, Television, and the Ritual of Halloween