What (Public?) Television Was Meant To Be?
PBS, like television, is not a singular object, and the image it constructs of what television is, and what PBS is, is multiplicitous and sometimes contradictory.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
PBS, like television, is not a singular object, and the image it constructs of what television is, and what PBS is, is multiplicitous and sometimes contradictory.
Why do serialized histories of television tend to leave out the most interesting aspects of TV flow?
Based on a hit Israeli TV show, HBO’s In Treatment, about a therapist and his patients, invites viewers to mix and match their own viewing schedules.
Read moreHow do we reward and protect creative labor while we insist on stripping it from the bodies that produce it?
Read moreA Baby Story, it would seem, has become a present-day ritual for at least some segments of the expectant-parent population in the U.S.
If television viewers are not able to use that medium to gain access to the content they want when they want it, then the medium itself can only continue to make itself an increasingly irrelevant part of that viewer’s media lifestyle.
Read moreHow has the cult television program Battlestar Galactica been conceived, generated, produced, and reproduced? An introduction to the questions of textuality and technology, history and futuricity, production and reception, love and aggression that are addressed in this special issue.
Read moreExploring the blur between the sacred and the secular in current media.
Read moreBattlestar Galactica remixes pertinent questions and concerns about the war on terror with varying degrees of verisimilitude and with varying degrees of predictability.
Read moreWithin the on-screen space of Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons illustrate questions of technophilia through the representational work that they perform both in relation to the remnants of humanity and in and of themselves.
Read moreThinking about the wiki as fundamentally generative brings the Battlestar Wiki much closer to fanfic and other the creative endeavors classified traditionally as “female fan initiated.”
Read moreDespite its influence, radio often remains marginal to media studies.
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