Volume 05 – Page 2

Região, Raça, e Clase Social: Recepcão de TV na Salvador, Bahia

April 20, 2007 Joe Straubhaar / University of Texas-Austin 4 comments

by: Joe Straubhaar / University of Texas at Austin
O mito de democrácia racial no Brasil posiciona o pensamento crítico sobre os textos de televisão em termos de classe, mas entrevistas em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, mostra uma tendência entre algumas pessoas de pensar em termos raciais e criticos. / A widespread myth of racial democracy in Brazil tends to position critical thinking about television texts in terms of class, but interviews in Salvador, Bahia show an emerging tendency among some to think in more critical racial terms.

Comunicación y personas mayores

April 20, 2007 José Hernández Herrerías / Universidad del Valle de México 41 comments

by: José Hernández Herrerías / Universidad del Valle de México, Campus Tlalpan
Toda la fotografía es, en cierto sentido, un reportaje, ya que capta con nitidez la imagen que perciben el objetivo de la cámara y el portentoso ojo humano. / Photographs are in a certain way a news report since they capture the images that both the lens of the camera and the human eye see.

La info-estructura de los 22 portales o sitios ciudadanos de los países

April 20, 2007 Octavio Islas and Arturo Caro / Tec de Monterrey, State of Mexico 3 comments

by: Octavio Islas and Arturo Caro / Tecnológico de Monterrey, State of Mexico
Un resumen de los resultados que arrojó el estudio de usabilidad de los 22 portales y sitios web ciudadanos de los países ubicados en la plataforma continental de América. / Results are shown for the usability study done to 22 websites dedicated to citizen information of countries located in the continental platform of America.

Xenofobia y Mitos en la Cobertura Televisiva de la Selección Nacional Mexicana

April 20, 2007 Jorge Alberto Calles-Santillana / Universidad de las Américas, Puebla One comment

by: Jorge Alberto Calles-Santillana / Universidad de las Américas, Puebla
El fútbol es el deporte más popular de México y la transmisión de los partidos de la selección nacional
genera un ambiente emocional como ninguno otro
evento nacional. / Soccer is the most popular sport in Mexico, and its broadcasting develops a unique emotional appeal as no other national event.

El Inicio de la Investigación Científica de la Comunicación Social en América Latina

April 20, 2007 José Luis Ortiz Garza / Universidad Panamericana 5 comments

by: José Luis Ortiz Garza / Universidad Panamericana
Información sobre el proyecto Office of Inter-American Affairs [OIAA] dirigido por Nelson Rockefeller. / Information about the the Office of Inter-American
Affairs [OIAA], a project directed by Nelson Rockefeller.

Everybody Hates Chris and the (Overdue) Return of the Working-Class Sitcom

April 5, 2007 Tim Gibson / George Mason University 13 comments

by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
On Everybody Hates Chris, class issues are largely explored in Chris’s home life, while the show’s writers
use Chris’s travails at Corleone to foreground questions
of race.

Watching TV Without Pity

April 5, 2007 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa 3 comments

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Rip-on-your-favorite-show sites elevate the attempt to make bad TV more entertaining to a popular art form. In the Television Without Pity world, the show is no longer the final product, but rather the raw material to which value is added.

Comics to Film (And Halfway Back Again): A DVD Essay

April 5, 2007 Drew Morton / Texas A&M 8 comments

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.

When the Whole World is Watching: The Case of Celebrity Big Brother

April 5, 2007 Sarita Malik / Brunel University 3 comments

by: Sarita Malik / Brunel University
Now that we can begin to look back at Celebrity Big Brother in less impulsive, more diagnostic ways, the major upshot – aside from a surefire boost to Shilpa Shetty’s international career following her win –
should be the critical attention paid to Channel 4’s role.

To Watch a Predator

April 5, 2007 Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University 3 comments

by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University

Do the suspects of Dateline: To Catch a Predator have any right to privacy, or can they be freely featured as part of the flow of network television?

Bigoted Brother ¹, Forgotten Sisters

April 5, 2007 Kim Akass and Janet McCabe and Kim Akass / Manchester Metropolitan University 4 comments

by: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe
Sanctifying sexism as long as your target is a racist – this article explores the sexist discourse surrounding media coverage of the recent “race row” on the UK show Celebrity Big Brother and the controversial figure of Jade Goody.

Queering Justin

March 22, 2007 Hector Amaya / Southwestern University 9 comments

by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
How does the Justin character on Ugly Betty factor into and complicate debates about queer representations on television?

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