Category: Lead Story

Cyclists have taken to the Internet to spread their message: the bicycle can stand as part of the solution to a whole range of problems, including climate change, obesity, traffic, pollution, depression, petrol politics, and even oil spills.

Mary Beltran examines the implications of a “post-race” media climate.

A look at why one of TV’s hottest chefs failed in his American food revolution.
Melissa Click / University of Missouri, Columbia

A consideration of theoretical applications to the apparatus of television against the presence of cable signal frequency

Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University

Paul Achter / University of Richmond
The anti-spectacle nature of the sport of golf is examined in light of two events, the 2010 Masters and the re-emergence of Tiger Woods after his much-publicized sex scandal.

Logorama: risky corporate trademark satire or straight product placement marketing via the doctrine of “fair use”?

Constructing the redneck identity in CMT’s My Big Redneck Wedding.

Melissa Click / University of Missouri

Rethinking television aesthetics and industrial production through ABC’s Conveyor Belt of Love.

Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University

Amanda Ann Klein / East Carolina University

An examination of how costume trumps narrative in MTV’s The City.

Shilpa Davé / Brandeis University

A consideration of television representations of arranged marriage and “match-making.”