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Finance, Decadence, and Me You Madness
Andrew deWaard / University of California, San Diego

Andrew deWaard discusses how Louise Linton reflects the issues surrounding capitalism both on and off-screen.

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And You Love The Game: Stream-Pop as a Never-Ending Scavenger Hunt
Eric Harvey / Grand Valley State University

Eric Harvey discusses how contemporary music stardom pulls fans and commentators into a rabbit hole of never-ending engagement.

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The Higher the Hair, The Closer to God: On Queen Charlotte’s Wigs
Jacqueline Johnson / University of Pittsburgh

Jacqueline Johnson examines the deeper significance of the wigs in Netflix’s Queen Charlotte.

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Extreme Weather as Everyday Genre in Subway Flood Videos
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez / University of Pennsylvania

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez explores how subway flood videos transform extreme weather from spectacle into genre. As infrastructure crumbles under climate-induced disasters, viewers shift between individual frustration and collective crisis awareness. These videos blend intimate, smartphone-captured perspectives with a wider, omniscient view of urban vulnerability, bridging personal experience with public crisis. In doing so, they force audiences to confront their roles in a destabilising climate.

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Evaluating TV Smarts in the Public Sphere

May 13, 2005 Allison McCracken / DePaul University 7 comments

by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
Steven Johnson (Everything Bad is Good for You) writes that television can be a “cognitive workout.” Whose television is he talking about?

The Seeds of Doom?

May 13, 2005 Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University 4 comments

by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
What the new Doctor Who can tell us about the machinations of cultural globalization.

“Roswell! Roswell! The People Have a Right to Know!”: The State of Fluff, part 2.

May 13, 2005 Eileen Meehan / Louisiana State University 7 comments

by: Eileen Meehan / Louisiana State University
“Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing,” serves as an example of the state of network news reporting.

Move over Marshall McLuhan! Live from the Arctic!

May 13, 2005 Faye Ginsburg / NYU 2 comments

by: Faye Ginsburg / NYU
Connecting Inuit culture to the rest of world using film and the Internet.

Extreme Health Care

May 13, 2005 Vicki Mayer / Tulane University 15 comments

by: Vicki Mayer / Tulane University
What’s behind Extreme Makeover’s contestants? Maybe more than just the desire to have their 5 minutes of fame.