I Want My MTV Books History
Quinn Miller / University of Oregon
Quinn Miller explores the music-TV-publishing industry through a discussion of the 1998 novel Floating published by MTV Books.
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Racebending the “Superhero Girlfriend”
Ravynn K. Stringfield / William & Mary
Ravynn K. Stringfield discusses the implications of racebending in superhero narratives, especially in relation to Black women and misogynoir.
Read moreOver*Flow: “It’s not dark humor if it’s not your trauma – you’re just bad people”: The exploitative nature of TikTok meme cultures
Moa Eriksson Krutrök / UmeA University, Sweden
Moa Eriksson Krutrök explores the ways social media like TikTok can offer individuals social support to process grief and trauma. Unfortunately, meme culture can radically recontextualize the personal and exploit already vulnerable people.
Read moreTechnical Failures as Symptoms of Social Success on Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party
Kara Carmack / The University of Texas at Austin
Kara Carmack historicizes the counterhegemonic technical failures on Glenn O’Brien’s public access TV Party.
Read moreFailure, unmade films, and Hollywood
James Fenwick / Sheffield Hallam University
James Fenwick explores Hollywood film history through archival research of the industry’s unmade films.
Read moreTraces of Failure in Skateboarding Videos
Sander Hölsgens / Leiden University and Paul O’Connor / University of Exeter
Sander Hölsgens and Paul O’Connor locate the persistent presence of failure within the evolution of skateboarding videos.
Read moreBorn into Failure: Disrupting Narratives of the WNBA Through Remembrance of the abl
Dafna Kaufman / University of North carolina at Chapel Hill
Dafna Kaufman explores media representation of the American Basketball League, positing it was born into failure well before the creation of the WNBA.
Read moreThe Fate of Mobile Video Shorts on Quibi and Kakao TV
Jennifer M. Kang / Queensland University of Technology
Jennifer M. Kang compares Quibi and Kakao TV to reconsider notions of failure on mobile streaming platforms.
Read moreA Market Failure or Successful Social Experiment: Re-Examining the Chinese Adaptation of Dutch Reality TV Utopia
Lisa lin / Anglia Ruskin University
Lisa Lin considers how programs that were deemed to be market failures can be viewed through different lenses of success.
Read moreSo bad it’s good: the consumption of critically panned media as a form of distinction
Ruben vandenplas / vrije universiteit brussel
Ruben Vandenplas tackles highbrow and lowbrow cultural tastes, arguing that a user’s media repertoire is deserving of a quantitative-qualitative study.
Read moreFailing to Win: Mandatory Failure in Getting Over It
Isabelle Williams / University of California, irvine
Isabelle Williams grapples with the manifestation of failure in the video game Getting Over It by dissecting movement of the player’s body in several key moments of the game.
Read moreVisual Pleasures in Magic Mike’s Cinema
Nicole Erin Morse / Florida Atlantic University
Nicole Erin Morse challenges the common understanding of Magic Mike (2012) and Magic Mike XXL (2015) as films that construct a female gaze by examining how the films establish a male homosocial gaze.
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