A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Sex, Love, Television – Part 1
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
What draws American viewers to Desperate Housewives, a show about infidelity, teenage promiscuity, scandal, secrecy, murder and deceit?
by: Jacqueline Vickery / FLOW Staff
Lynette’s role complicates contradictory cultural assumptions about both feminism and masculinity.
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
The euphoria of being the rock star and the music.
How Would Fresh Prince Do It? Teaching “Diversity” to Late ’80s Babies
by: Mary Beltran / University of Wisconsin-Madison
How does one teach “diversity” without essentializing race and representation?
Mourning Anna Nicole: Death in the Age of Celebrity Culture
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
News coverage of Ms. Smith’s recent passing illustrates unsettling trends in contemporary media.
Race, Gender and Class in Reality TV: The Case of Celebrity Big Brother 2007 in the U.K.
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas at Austin
Kumar discusses representations of race and television using the example of the now infamous racial row on the UK program Big Brother.
Pink Slips for Booth Babes?: No Way! Re-train and Re-skill!
by: Nina B. Huntemann / Suffolk University
The enduring question of women and gaming finds one possible answer in the booth babe.
Game Studies and Web 2.0: Finding an Audience Online
by: Zach Whalen / University of Florida
Given gamers’ tech-enabled nature, how is gameology literature received online?
Beyond the Steady State
by: Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister / University of Arizona
Meditations on the need for and the logistical constraints impeding the creation of computer game archives.
Getting Girls to Play: The Broadening of the Video Game Market
by: Suzanne Freyjadis-Chuberka / Independent Scholar
Guitar Hero’s innovative gameplay appeals to casual and hardcore gamers alike–including the Frag Dolls!
Who Are Wii? The Study of Console Fandom
by: Elliot Panek / Emerson College
How does gaming fandom in general and the new console fandom in particular compare to other forms of media fandom?
The Wii-volution will not be Televised:
The XNA-cution of a Business Model
by: Casey O’Donnell / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
While Nintendo’s Wii has been causing a stir among gamers and the general public alike, Microsoft is fundamentally changing the way video games are created.