A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
YouTube vs. Main Stream Media:
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.
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.
by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Little Mosque on the Prairie and a discussion of the success of the the CBC Canadian public broadcaster system.
Women are from Mars? Part 1
by: Lynne Joyrich / Brown University
How does–or should–narrative television deal with issues of sexual violence? Lynne Joyrich considers the meaning of rape on Veronica Mars…and in our culture as a whole.
Towards Freedom: Television, Baudrillard and Symbolic Exchange
by: Stephen Groening / University of Minnesota
Towards Freedom Television and its complication of the binary “non-communication” vs. “symbolic exchange.”
Sex, Love, Television – Part 1
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
What draws American viewers to Desperate Housewives, a show about infidelity, teenage promiscuity, scandal, secrecy, murder and deceit?
by: Jacqueline Vickery / FLOW Staff
Lynette’s role complicates contradictory cultural assumptions about both feminism and masculinity.
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
The euphoria of being the rock star and the music.
How Would Fresh Prince Do It? Teaching “Diversity” to Late ’80s Babies
by: Mary Beltran / University of Wisconsin-Madison
How does one teach “diversity” without essentializing race and representation?
Mourning Anna Nicole: Death in the Age of Celebrity Culture
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
News coverage of Ms. Smith’s recent passing illustrates unsettling trends in contemporary media.
Race, Gender and Class in Reality TV: The Case of Celebrity Big Brother 2007 in the U.K.
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas at Austin
Kumar discusses representations of race and television using the example of the now infamous racial row on the UK program Big Brother.
Pink Slips for Booth Babes?: No Way! Re-train and Re-skill!
by: Nina B. Huntemann / Suffolk University
The enduring question of women and gaming finds one possible answer in the booth babe.