A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Discourse around the author’s image on Digg and Flickr highlight the fact that social media are shot through with race and gender codes.
Read moreLisa Parks’ article revisits the infrastructure of communications media and examines the stakes of devices masked as “nature.”
Read moreThis piece sparked a vigorous discussion within the television studies community with its call to think more rigorously about why, exactly, we are drawn to aesthetically and narratively complex TV.
Read moreBy raising the specter of “dead white men” theorists and their applicability to the 2008 Economic Meltdown, Jefferey Sconce provoked one of the most highly-charged debates on Flow in some time.
Read moreAnalysis of digital promotional campaigns for Better Luck Tomorrow and Finishing the Game are unique and instructive for their form of Asian American political and cultural engagement.
Read moreA look at the represenation of Italian Americans on MTV’s Jersey Shore
Read moreA brief look at branding and stereotypes within the region of Romania through recent film and television creations.
Read moreConstructing the redneck identity in CMT’s My Big Redneck Wedding.
Melissa Click / University of Missouri
Read moreAn exploration of camp sensibility as illustrated by Michael Buckley’s What the Buck?! YouTube show.
Read moreA look at the often-brutal power dynamic undergirding the Olympics and its media history.
Read moreOne media scholar’s reportage of and reaction to the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show.
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