Volume 17 
Afterthoughts on Martin Luther (1953) and Christian American Cinema
Dan Chyutin / University of Pittsburgh(0)
May 21, 2013
Dan Chyutin ruminates on recent scholarly publications on Christian cinema.
Media Fantasies and Moral Panics
Diane Lewis / Meiji Gakuin University
Diane Lewis considers otaku desire, fantasy, and reality in relation to changing understandings of masculinity.
Raymond Williams on Television: Notes Toward Further Research
Dana Polan / New York University
Dana Polan reflects on Raymond Williams’s “Television: Technology and Cultural Form.”
If Looks Could Kill: Postscripts and Afterthoughts to “Visual Riposte”
Paula Amad / University of Iowa
Paula Amad interrogates the investment in the return of the gaze and traces manifestations of a visual riposte ‘turn’ in media culture.
More in this category:
- A (Last?) Word on Incompletion
Sarah Keller / Colby College - The High Cost of Free Content: Games and Advertising
Peter Krapp / UC Irvine - Habit-Change in the Mobile Present III: Augusta App and Habit-ing Differently
Heidi Rae Cooley/University of South Carolina - Altermodern Literacy: Netflix, Apple TV, YouTube, and Cutting the Cord
Ralph Beliveau / University of Oklahoma - Dexter, Straight Homosexuality, and the Normalization of the Psycho
David Greven / University of South Carolina - The Afro-Brazilian Public Sphere
Reighan Gillam / University of Michigan - Shipper Fandoms and Online Polls: Reconsidering Critiques of Clicktivism
Eve Ng / Five College Women’s Studies Research Center and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst - Valuing Post-Network Television
Aymar Jean Christian / Northwestern University - Fair and Balanced Philosophy
Brad Gyori / Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy - Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and the Spectacle of the Ungovernable Child
Kristen Hatch / University of California, Irvine - Space Ghosts: Cartoons and Talk Shows
J.D. Connor / Yale University - It Takes a LIFETIME: Television for Black Women
Gerald Butters/Aurora University - We Resign from Sexism and Games Effective Immediately: Positive Steps Toward Gender Equality in Gaming Cultures
Jennifer deWinter / Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Carly Kocurek / Illinois Institute of Technology - Re-framing Google Glass
J. Macgregor Wise/Arizona State University - Motel Rebates: The Slasher Reboot as Makeunder Genre
Andrew Scahill / George Mason University - Mobile Conviviality
Mimi Sheller / Drexel University, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy - “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”: Troubling the Visual Optics of Race
Isabel Molina-Guzmán / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - MMO Models: Crowd-Sourcing Economedia
Peter Krapp / UC Irvine - Ethics of Exposure
Brad Gyori / Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy - Watching Everybody Hates Chris in Brazil
Reighan Gillam / University of Michigan - Strike Through the Mask: Male Faces, Masculinity, and Allegorical Queerness in Breaking Bad
David Greven / University of South Carolina - Downton Abbey and Mad Men: The End of the World as We Know It
Kristen Hatch / University of California Irvine - Prisoners of Permission: Advancing the Cause of Fair Use
Ralph Beliveau / University of Oklahoma - #1reasonwhy Women in the Gaming Industry Matters
Jennifer deWinter / Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Carly Kocurek / Illinois Institute of Technology - Habit-Change in the Mobile Present II: Ghosts of the Horseshoe and Remembering History Otherwise
Heidi Rae Cooley/ University of South Carolina - Parkives: Tomorrow’s Residual Media…Today
J.D. Connor / Yale University Linguistic boundaries
Richard Ling / The University of Copenhagen- In the absence of technology
J. Macgregor Wise/Arizona State University - Iconic Television and Pathos
Gerald R. Butters, Jr./Aurora University - Mobile Mediality II: Locative Mobile Gaming
Mimi Sheller, Drexel University - Lindsay Lohan: Star Image Succubus
Andrew Scahill / George Mason University - What’s in a Metaphor?: Abortion Rhetoric and the Fight for Reproductive Justice Amber Johnson / Prairie View A&M University
- Zoë Saldana: The Complicated Politics of Casting a Black Latina
Isabel Molina-Guzmán / University of Illinois - Banishing Phantoms from the Skin: ‘Vibranxiety’ and the Pathologization of Interfacing
David Parisi / College of Charleston - Ranks and Files: On Metacritic and Gamerankings
Peter Krapp / UC Irvine - Notes on the Racial Contours of Visual Culture in São Paulo, Brazil
Reighan Gillam /University of Michigan - Liberal Scribbles on my Newsfeed: Political Gestures on Social Media
Eve Ng / Five College Women’s Studies Research Center and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst - Breaking Dad
Brad Gyori / Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy - Blind Spots: Religion in Media Studies
Erica Robles-Anderson / New York University - The Unbearable Literacy of Media: Travels in the Reality-Based Community
Ralph Beliveau / University of Oklahoma - Aspect Jumping
J.D. Connor / Yale University - Rescuing Anita: Games, Gamers, and the Battle of the Sexes
Jennifer deWinter / Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Carly Kocurek / Illinois Institute of Technology - Habit-Change in the Mobile Present
Heidi Rae Cooley/ University of South Carolina - What Should We Call Reading?
Mara Mills / New York University - Is it the water, the stones or is it something else?
Richard Ling / University of Copenhagen - Real: Older Gay Men in Popular Culture
Gerald Butters/ Aurora University - The Walking Straight: Queer Representation in The Walking Dead
David Greven / University of South Carolina - Free to Be You and Me
Kristen Hatch/UC Irvine - Through the Looking Glass with Google
J. Macgregor Wise/Arizona State University - Modern Family’s Latina Spitfire in the era of White Resentment
Isabel Molina-Guzmán / University of Illinois - When Screens Touch Back
David Parisi / College of Charleston - (Mis)Representing Black Sexualities: Madea versus MaDukes
Amber Johnson / Prairie View A&M University - Defanged: The Curious Case of the Family-Friendly Vampire
Andrew Scahill / George Mason University - Mobile Mediality
Mimi Sheller / Professor of Sociology, Drexel University