Pardon the Competition: ESPN Turns Sports Talk Into a Game
How commentary is the new competition on ESPN’s most popular sports talk shows.
Category: Special Features
From Irrelevance to On-Demand: Changing Models of Dissemination
Innovative Internet distribution models in music and television strike back against Big Media hegemony.
Becoming the Other: Multiculturalism in Joss Whedon’s Angel
Due to both its location and characters, Angel can be viewed as politically progressive commentary on immigration.
Read morePutting the ‘F’ Back in Art
A reconsideration of the universality of flatulence-based humor.
Read moreThe Cult of Æon Flux
What happened to the transgressive pleasures of Aeon Flux when it moved from small screen to large?
Convergence as Conflict: the Tasing of Andrew Meyer
by: Ted Gournelos / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The recent events at the University of Florida cause us to consider how protest functions within the campus environment.
Read moreWhy Political Journalists Should Get Into Top Gear
by: Stephen Harrington / Queensland University of Technology
How the rise of car culture in Australia suggests ways to increase political literacy.
Indigeneity for Life: Bro’town and Its Stereotypes
by: Ilana Gershon / Indiana University
The writers of Bro’town insist on a distinction between stereotypes used to reinforce historically and economically grounded inequalities and stereotypes used to indicate differences without consequences.
Comics to Film (And Halfway Back Again): A DVD Essay
by: Drew Morton / UCLA
By constructing visual essays, cinema and media studies scholars dip their hands into processes they think and write so much about.
YouTube vs. Main Stream Media:
Kissing Cousins or Feuding Siblings?
Kissing Cousins or Feuding Siblings?
by: Sonja Baumer / University of California-Berkeley
Why YouTube is highly unlikely to displace other media including the mainstream media.
Catfight in My Name is Earl as a Site of Feminist Resistance
by: Debbie James Smith / Wayne State University
My Name is Earl, a catfight, and the cultural debate over what is acceptable behavior for lower class mothers.
Primetime’s Incompetent Liberalism
by: Shawn Shimpach / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Primetime’s liberalism is both the problem and solution to its perceived red state/blue state divide.