Category: 2.02

by: Shana Heinricy, Matt Payne, and Angela McManaman
Who is the “we” in those ubiquitous [Adult Swim] promos?

by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
Is ‘disappointment’ and ‘the teaching of disgust’ the ‘core of our discipline’? Or might teaching better be accomplished by inspiring positive civic action. Either way, doesn’t reality TV do it better than we do?

by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University, UK
How can a public network like the BBC survive in the age of privatization?

by: Christopher Anderson / Indiana University
How does our understanding of television change when we replace the idea of “flow” with “flotsam”?

by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College
Wasser considers a hypothesis of FCC commissioner Michael Copps: is there a relationship between media deregulation and vulgar programming?

by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
What is appealing about Jeff Foxworthy?

by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
A consideration of the pleasure of unraveling contemporary television’s “meaningful mysteries.”