Mobility, Mobilities and Communication Studies
The place of “mobility” and “mobilities” in Communication Studies.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
The place of “mobility” and “mobilities” in Communication Studies.
How Madeleine went missing in an inundation of media coverage.
Virtual worlds are becoming increasingly integrated into mainstream popular culture.
How has YouTube transformed the study of choreography and the way we think about movement?
Convergence as Conflict: the Tasing of Andrew Meyer
by: Ted Gournelos / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The recent events at the University of Florida cause us to consider how protest functions within the campus environment.
Read moreThe Seven Steps to Getting a Job in Television
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
You want to work in television, do you? These seven steps might prove useful.
Punk-Rock Presidency: The State of Presidential Satire on Television
by: Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University
Presidential caricature on television has come a long way from the days of presidential impersonators on late-night talk shows or sketch comedy send-ups on Saturday Night Live. The bookending of the Bush presidency by Comedy Central’s That’s My Bush! and
Lil’ Bush announces a bold new era in the satirization
of a sitting president.
Notes from Economy Class
by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
The airline seat is an often-overlooked signpost of convergence — a site of convergent media, convergent functionalities, convergent spaces, and convergent
subjects.
Watching Time on Television
by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
While the ability to watch an hour of prime time television in forty-two minutes, at four in the morning, in a plane,
on a mobile phone, is certainly a break from an earlier era of television, celebrations of temporal mutability have overshadowed the importance of a related phenomenon
— temporal conspicuity.
Will BitTorrent Change Television? A Luddite’s View
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
We hear that convergence technologies such as BitTorrent are going to change television viewing habits and allow for personal schedules. But is it really true?
Dish Towns USA (or Rural Screens) Part One
by: Joan Hawkins / Indiana University, Bloomington
The fact that rural dish users reside in the country whose culture—without the dish—is so frequently unavailable to them is one of the things we need to
take into account when we discuss audience.
Everything is Under Control
by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
Celebrations of viewer control display a marked historical shortsightedness, reveal a familiar deployment of gendered discourse, and raise questions about inequality of access
in a rapidly tiering television environment.