Protected: Camera Looks, Laugh Tracks, and TV Comedy
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Read moreMichael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Michael Z. Newman is a Professor in the Department of English and the programs in Film Studies (BA) and Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies (MA/PhD) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and writes about popular American media. His books include Indie: An American Film Culture (Columbia UP, 2011), Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status (co-authored with Elana Levine; Routledge, 2011), Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium (Columbia UP, 2014), Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America (MIT Press, 2017), and The Media Studies Toolkit (Routledge, 2022). He is working on a book about The Muppet Show. Bluesky: @mznewman.bsky.social.
Protected: Camera Looks, Laugh Tracks, and TV Comedy
TikTok is Television, Television is TikTok
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Michael Z. Newman explores the convergence of television and TikTok, arguing that platforms like TikTok embody television’s fragmentary logic and attention-driven economy, transforming late-night shows like After Midnight into viral, internet-native content.
Read moreIn the Gif Space Michael Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Michael Newman discusses the gif as a new vernacular allowing gif sharers to display their interiority on digital platforms and interrogates how commercial interests are creating a canon of gif expression.
Read moreTeach-Ins and Twitter
Michael Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Michael Newman examines the legacy of 1960s anti-Vietnam War teach-ins in relation to Twitter and contemporary debates about — and curtailments of — academic freedom, political speech, and public pedagogies within higher education institutions.
Read moreThe Celebrity Sex Tape, Where Porn Meets Reality TV
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
An examination of the role of the celebrity sex tape in today’s reality TV landscape.
Read moreImmersive Media: Whose Fantasy?
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
A recap of the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show and its implications for the future of “immersive” media.
Read moreWhen Television Marries Computer
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
A brief analysis of the historical relationship between television and computer.
Read moreFlow Favorites: The Bronze Fonz
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Michael Z. Newman’s “The Bronze Fonz” explores not only the relationship between art and popular culture, but between cultural memory and urban space.
Read moreP2P TV: Ethical Considerations
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
An examination of the ethical considerations circulating around p2p file sharing.
Read moreTV Binge
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Bronze Fonz: Public Art/Popular Culture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee
A look at a Wisconsin’s monument to the Fonz of Happy Days.
Read morelonelygirl15: The Pleasures and Perils of Participation
by: Michael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
The Internet has been the site of a zillion hoaxes, so what is so special about lonelygirl15?