Category: Volume 15

How the bifurcation between “old” and “new” media continues to (mis)inform teaching in universities.

The Weather Channel, paternalistic meteorology, and individual domination of nature.

The blurred boundaries between labor, performance, fame, and talent in celebrity rags.

What does The Oprah Winfrey network say about basic cable’s reach for niche audiences? What can OWN tell us about contemporary practices of branding and celebrity production? And, how are these practices embedded in the structures of the basic cable marketplace?

David Murray’s reinterpretation of Nat King Cole prompts me to rehear The Nat King Cole Show, especially in the context of black televisual presence in today’s digital platforms.

A fascinating inquiry into the relationship between controlled temperatures and media technologies.

The anxiety of immersive media communication environments.

A consideration of banality as a way to index habituated violence which is concealed in paradigms of violence-as-spectacle.

While real-life interracial marriage remains low, interracial couples on television are increasingly popular. Do they signify increased racial acceptance or simply reproduce long-standing prejudices?

It’s time for us to center down, appreciate our current existence and be sensitive to our real surroundings instead of being online all the time.