Volume 15 
Fighting, beers and the queered – Class, hyper-masculinity and reality TV
Faye Davies / Birmingham City University(16)
May 19, 2012
An exploration of masculinity on British reality TV.
Film, Nostalgia, and The Digital Divide
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The old films and film camera equipment have been almost taken away from us – and apparently, we didn’t even notice.
Surveillance and Disinformation
Hacked: Nadia El Fani’s “Bedwin Hacker”
Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi
Considering Bedwin Hacker’s take on immigration as a degenerative form of cultural invasion, and hacking as a destructive form of vandalism against intellectual property or terrorism against the state.
How to become a TV star
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
A consideration of cultural importance of the Logies, Australia’s Emmys.
More in this category:
- Laughing Out Loud: Wanda Sykes and the Making of Lesbian Celebrity Activism
Julia Himberg / University of Southern California - Adorno vs. Siskel and Ebert
Doyle Greene / Independent Scholar - David Lynch’s Secret Passages II
Akira Mizuta Lippit/ University of Southern California - God is Watching, and So Am I: The Theology of Surveillance
Randy Lewis/University of Texas - What if Interactivity is the New Passivity?
Jonathan Sterne / McGill University - On the Surface
Robert Hariman/Northwestern University and John Louis Lucaites/Indiana University - A Good Day to Die Hard: Age, Action, and the Masculine Hard Body
Rebecca Feasey / Bath Spa University - American Dreams – Israeli Formats: How Israeli TV Became a U.S. Success Story
Sharon Shahaf / Georgia State University - Waking People Up, pt. II: Because There’s a War on For Your Mind
Michael Kackman / Independent Scholar - How My Poem Became a Short Film On TV (After Being Art In A Museum)
Thomas Swiss / University of Minnesota - Subaquatic Frames
Nicole Starosielski / Miami University - Gloved Hands, Pressed Uniforms, and Silver Trays
Herman Gray / University of California in Santa Cruz - The Imaginary SXSWi: If SXSWi is a Dream, Then How Do We Wake Up From It?
Jonathan Hickman and Jennifer Jones / Birmingham City University and University of the West of Scotland - SXSW Memes & Themes: What Journalists See Up & Down Dirty Sixth
Todd Schack / Ithaca College - The Future of Television?
Sharon Strover / The University of Texas at Austin - Examining the Jeremy Lin Phenomenon Through a Critical Lens
Erica Chito Childs / Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center - The Great Wikipedia Blackout, The Stop Online Piracy Act, and You
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Now Watching: Black Web Series and the Promised Land of New Media
TreaAndrea M. Russworm / University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Loose Women – Women’s talk and ideological restriction
Faye Davies / Birmingham City University - Biometrics and Machinima, Reanimated:
Jacqueline Goss’s “Stranger Comes to Town”
Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi - Television studies, new media, and the divided curriculum
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland - The Dialectic of The Weather Channel
Doyle Greene / Independent Scholar - The Blurring of Fame and Talent: Female Celebrity and the Glossy Gossip Sector
Rebecca Feasey / Bath Spa University - The Return of Rosie: OWN, Celebrity, and the Branding of Basic Cable
Julia Himberg / University of Southern California - David Lynch’s Secret Passages
Akira Mizuta Lippit / University of Southern California - Seeing in Spanish: The Nat King Cole Show
Herman Gray / University of California in Santa Cruz - Digital Media: Hot or Cool?
Nicole Starosielski / Miami University - No Arguments for the Elimination of Anything
Randy Lewis/University of Texas at Austin - The Banality of Violence
Robert Hariman/Northwestern University and John Louis Lucaites/Indiana University - Formatted to Fit Your Screen
Jonathan Sterne / McGill University - Shades Of Grey: Interracial Couples On TV
Erica Chito Childs / Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center - I’m Not Here
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Race and Labor, Unplugged: Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer
Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi - The Jeremy Kyle Show: Middle Class Territory
Faye Davies / Birmingham City University - “We’re Grinding Like Everybody Else”: Race, Video Game Culture, and New Media Authorship
TreaAndrea M. Russworm / University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Mothers on the Naughty Step: Supernanny and Reality Parenting Television
Rebecca Feasey / Bath Spa University - Media, community, and zones of consumption
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland - David Lynch’s Wholes
Akira Mizuta Lippit / University of Southern California - 2 Broke Girls (Or, One American Dream with a Side of Alienation)
Doyle Greene / Independent Scholar - “The Rock Star of Personal Finance”: Suze Orman’s Marriage of Love, Money, and Politics
Julia Himberg / University of Southern California - The Compassion Manifesto: Corporate Media and the Ethic of Care
Randy Lewis/ The University of Texas at Austin - Player Hater
Jonathan Sterne / McGill University - Imminence
Amelie Hastie / Amherst College - Retransmission consent and affiliate/network conflict
Alexander Russo / The Catholic University of America - Bad Image, Good Art: Thinking through Banality
Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites / Northwestern University and Indiana University - Who Was That Masked Woman? Rediscovering the Hidden Mother
Melinda Barlow / University of Colorado at Boulder - Representation, Politics and Publics
Herman Gray / University of California Santa Cruz - Watching While Depressed
Sasha Torres / The University of Western Ontario - Waking People Up! Conspiracy Radio and the Contemporary Public Sphere
Michael Kackman / Independent Scholar - Underwater Flow
Nicole Starosielski / Miami University