Hybridity in TV Sitcom: The Case of Comedy Verité
The Rumor Bomb: On Convergence Culture and Politics
Jayson Harsin / American University of Paris
Reformulating Virilio to account for the speed and power of rumor in convergent times.
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E-Waste: Elephant in the Living Room
Richard Maxwell / Queens College-CUNY & Toby Miller / UC Riverside
Media Studies as a field must recognize the dire environmental effects of discarded electronics.
Read moreFree TV: White Spaces & Broadcast Flag
Patrick Burkart / Texas A&M
A look at the public interest in newly unlicensed “white space” for wireless networking and also a consideration of the impending copy protections threatening digital television signals.
Read moreWhat a Whirlwind: Showbiz Talk and Political Snark on Chelsea Lately
Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M Corpus Christi
A look at the politics of E!’s Chelsea Lately.
Read moreDegrassi’s Always Greener on the Other Side: Canadian Television, U.S. Handling
Nafissa Thompson-Spires / Vanderbilt University
An analysis of Degrassi censorship practices for a U.S. audience
Read more‘East’ Talking to ‘West’: The Digital Mediation of Arundhati Roy
Ingrid M. Hoofd / National University of Singapore
An examination of Arundhati Roy’s popularity with the American left-wing as well as her relation to issues of Easterness, Westernness, and digital mediation.
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Jonathan Nichols-Pethick / DePauw University
The Play Paradigm: What Media Studies Can Learn from Game Studies
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University, Atlanta
TV Tears: Learning Through Emotion in Popular Factual Entertainment
Lisa W. Kelly / University of Glasgow
A consideration of the use of open emotion in factual entertainment.
Read moreSo You Think You Can Dance, Canada?: Formatting and Canadian Reality Television
Christine Quail / McMaster University
Commentary on the politics of So You Think You Can Dance, Canada?
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