A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Broadcasting Is Dead, Long Live Broadcasting
by: John McMurria / DePaul University
As Internet companies move towards increasing video content they have begun to look to television as a model. What lessons can be learned from the history of broadcast as Internet/TV convergence gains momentum? In 4 case studies of Internet/TV convergence, the issues of access, fair use and public initiatives are explored and critiqued.
Living Life in TiVo Time
by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
Robert Schrag examines how the proliferation of highly individualized and instantly gratifying technology like TiVo leads to the fracturing of various realities and interpersonal time and space.
Cybernetic TV
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
An exploration of the ways in which “interactive” television “adjusts on the fly” to meet the needs of programmers and viewers.
Exchanges of Value
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
In today’s digital media environment, what’s an episode of Veronica Mars really worth?
An Analog Form in a Digital Box: Sitcoms, Mitcoms, and New Media Pliancy
by: Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister / University of Arizona
Everyone Frags Raymond — When Computer Games & TV Forms Collide
Teen Choice Awards: Better Than The Emmys?
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
Hidden behind the surfboards is an awards show that celebrates much of what the Emmys have overlooked.
I WANT MY GEEK TV!
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Global Frequency and the future of fan communities.
Can the Social History of Audiences Contribute to Media Reform?
by: Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont
Zephyr Teachout, formerly a staffer for Howard Dean’s Presidential campaign, recently published an open memo to the Democratic Party about using the internet to help rejuvenate the Party at the grassroots…
Rethinking the Digital Age
by: Faye Ginsburg / New York University
It is 2005 and the term “The Digital Age” is as naturalized for many as a temporal marking of the dominance of a certain kind of technological regime (“the digital”) as is the “Paleolithic’s” association with certain kinds of stone tools.
Sculpting a Digital Language
by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
A number of responses to my last Flow column wondered what form the “digital language” I advocated might take. The question took me back to a very non-digital experience.
10,000 Years of Media Flow
by: Faye Ginsburg / New York University
It’s one of those unseasonably warm Saturdays in November, a beautiful autumn day in New York City that competes with the films being shown in darkened rooms during the annual Margaret Mead Film Festival.
Undecided Voter
by: Chris Anderson / Indiana University
Squirrel hunting once was a lovely way for a man to pass an autumn afternoon…