4.07 
The Curious State of Live TV
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by: John Tomasic / The University of Paris-Dauphine
With new technologies providing access to “realness,” the novelty of live television may be wearing off.
Lost in an Alternate Reality
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What can the online game “The Lost Experience” teach us about cross-media storytelling and expectations? Is this the future of television?
Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: Classical Baby
by: Dan Leopard / St. Mary’s College of California
Part of screen series; discussion of media and the baby spectator, HBO’s “Classical Baby” DVD, how to raise a smart, discerning little person. Adorno; mass culture; baby’s place in it…
(TV)antipathy: A Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Television Hating, Part Two
by: David Lavery / Middle Tennesse State University
Part Two of Two–An evolving commentary on the critical tendency to love-to-hate TV.