5.07 
The Limits of the Cellular Imaginary: iPhone and the Snuff Film
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by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
Though Saddam Hussein and Steve Jobs were on public display for quite different purposes, and on quite different stages, they were inevitably bound together by certain cultural logics of new media.
Commercial Media, Media Reform, and an Arlington Church Basement
by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
The popular critique of media commercialism has deep cultural roots, and you don’t have to be fire-breathing Marxist to be disgusted with the moral consequences.
Not So Ugly: Local Production, Global Franchise, Discursive Femininities, and the Ugly Betty Phenomenon
by: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe
Examining the various incarnations of Columbia’s telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea and the ways in which various countries across the world have adopted and translated the show.
Primetime’s Incompetent Liberalism
by: Shawn Shimpach / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Primetime’s liberalism is both the problem and solution to its perceived red state/blue state divide.