The Play Paradigm: What Media Studies Can Learn from Game Studies
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?
Read moreClimate Change Virus Targets Poland! Copenhagen and China next!
Chris Russill / University of Minnesota
What’s an effective strategy for informing people about global warming?
Read more“As Canadian as… Possible under the Circumstances”: Canadian Youth Television in the United States
Nafissa Thompson-Spires / Vanderbilt University
An look Canadian “youth export” television to the U.S.
Read moreUrban Media Practices As Interventions: An Italian Case Study
Michela Ardizzoni / University of Colorado Boulder
The Sounds and the Business of Mobile Music
Ben Aslinger / Bentley College
A consideration of the recent advancements of mobile music technology and convergence.
Read moreNarrative Pleasures in House Hunters
Julia Lesage / University of Oregon
Uses the theory of Ricoeur to analyze HGTV’s House Hunters
Read moreQuality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin
Looking to the ways in which Quality TV (and Lost in particular) negotiates the territory between melodrama and elitist aesthetics.
Read moreThe 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 moreAnother Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn
Martin Roberts / The New School
A consideration of the recent turn to the environmentally-conscious in lifestyle media.
Read moreA Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University
What do media studies and the current financial crisis have in common?