Waking People Up, pt. II: Because There’s a War on For Your Mind
Michael Kackman / Independent Scholar
Radio and the move of fringe politics into the mainstream.
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Waking People Up, pt. II: Because There’s a War on For Your Mind
How My Poem Became a Short Film On TV (After Being Art In A Museum)
Thomas Swiss / University of Minnesota
A discussion of new media poetry and other digital collaborations
Read moreSubaquatic Frames
Nicole Starosielski / Miami University
Tracking the origins of the cinematic framing of undersea environments in order to draw attention to the historical specificity of this view.
Read moreGloved Hands, Pressed Uniforms, and Silver Trays
Herman Gray / University of California in Santa Cruz
Between the relations of subordination and domination in the American south and the English countryside.
Read moreThe Imaginary SXSWi: If SXSWi is a Dream, Then How Do We Wake Up From It?
Jonathan Hickman / Birmingham City University and Jennifer Jones / University of the West of Scotland
Is SXSWi a Dream World? South by Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) is a dream. A trade fair in a desert, a pilgrimage, a Mecca, where stories are created and products are launched. It is a sign, a referent, a display. For those who attend, it is cultural capital, it is membership of a club – the ‘have-beens’ and the ‘have-nots’; for […]
Read moreSXSW Memes & Themes: What Journalists See Up & Down Dirty Sixth
Todd Schack / Ithaca College
On the narrowness of journalistic coverage of SXSW.
Read moreThe Future of Television?
Sharon Strover / The University of Texas at Austin
The Future of Television Amid all the doom and gloom coming from incumbent broadcasters as they face the fact that some of their spectrum may go away and that people are finding a lot of things to watch besides their channels, a perennial bright spot for most media industries is South by Southwest (SXSW). The Interactive Festival in particular has […]
Read moreExamining the Jeremy Lin Phenomenon Through a Critical Lens
Erica Chito Childs / Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
Is the media case of Jeremy Lin really evidence of a post-racial America?
Read moreThe Great Wikipedia Blackout, The Stop Online Piracy Act, and You
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln
What underlie the Internet blackout are protection of content on the one hand and freedom of access and information on the other.
Read moreNow Watching: Black Web Series and the Promised Land of New Media
TreaAndrea M. Russworm / University of Massachusetts, Amherst
A look at how the Internet has become a hosting powerhouse for thousands of amateur and professional videos, serialized web shows, direct-to-Internet films, minisodes, animation, documentaries, vlogs featuring blacks.
Read moreLoose Women – Women’s talk and ideological restriction
Faye Davies / Birmingham City University
An exploration of gossip and gender on television.
Read moreBiometrics and Machinima, Reanimated:
Jacqueline Goss’s “Stranger Comes to Town”
Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi
Dale Hudson discusses the use of machinima as critique of U.S. labor and immigration laws.
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