The Tedious Fun of Cosmopolitan Shopping: Man Shops Globe
Jiwon Ahn / Keene State College
Shopping for Anthropologie on The Sundance Channel’s global buying series Man Shops World
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The Tedious Fun of Cosmopolitan Shopping: Man Shops Globe
Privacy, Openness, and a New Persona: Why David Letterman’s Interoffice Escapades Took This Longtime Fan by Surprise
Kelli Marshall / University of Toledo
A meditation on the changing persona of David Letterman and the ramifications of his recent scandal
Read moreFlashForward or FlashBack: Television Distribution in 2010?
Tama Leaver / Curtin University of Technology
Tama Leaver discusses “digital distance” and its ironies and frustrations through an examination of the availability of the U.S. series FlashForward for TV viewers in Australia.
Read moreDoes “Deep Packet Inspection” Turn You On?
Becky Lentz / McGill University
A humorous look at the pervasiveness of misleading and deceptive telecommunication policy discourse, and the need to democratize these naming practices.
Read moreTelevision and the Yuletide Cult
Ernest Mathijs / The University of British Columbia
Ernest Mathijs investigates the relationship between TV, Movies and the ‘cult’ of Christmas
Read moreRe-thinking Indian Arranged Marriage and Matchmaking on American Television
Shilpa Davé / Brandeis University
A consideration of television representations of arranged marriage and “match-making.”
Read moreDirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket Marketing Campaigns
Jon Kraszewski / Seton Hall University
A look at notions of home in DirectTV’s Sunday NFL Ticket marketing campaigns.
Read more“Rabid”, “obsessed”, and “frenzied”: Understanding Twilight Fangirls and the Gendered Politics of Fandom
Melissa Click / University of Missouri
A look at why “Twi-hards” need to be taken seriously.
Read moreThoughts from Oslo, Norway: Film Festivals and Expanding the Moral Imagination
Konrad Ng/ University of Hawaii, Mānoa
A consideration of Asian American Film Festivals as a space for expanding the moral imagination as a result of an insightful rumination of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
Read moreThe Foreignness of Race
Aniko Imre / USC
A brief examination of celebrity culture and race within television.
Read moreImmigration in the News
Carolyn E. Brown / American University
A comparative look at immigration reporting in Spanish- and English-language TV news
Of American Slouch and English Fervour
David L. Andrews / University of Maryland
A revealing look into English and American football crowds, their historic relationships to the sport, and their complicated defiance of corporate interference in the game.
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