TiVoing Childhood
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What is television to a child who only knows TiVo?
Rating the Runway: Project Runway and New York Fashion Week
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
Project Runway is an example of how recent reality television shows rely on viewer responses to help construct the narrative. the show maintains a distinct textual presence while they advocate viewer participation, play with the idea of permeable and non-permeable textual boundaries and highlight the different ways in which we can access ‘the real world.’
Stripping (Part 2)
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
How does stripping popular series for syndication affect the how viewers receive actors, subplots, and secondary characters? In the final installment of his two-part series on stripping, Marcus explores the impact of syndication practices and raises some interesting questions about how cable channels and DVD technology alter how we watch TV.
Truth and Beauty
by: Christopher Anderson / Indiana University
Perhaps it’s time to focus a bit more of our attention on the technology, industry, and visualization strategies of medical imaging.
“Big Man on Campus Ladies”
by: Walter Metz / Montana State University
Metz discusses the Oxygen TV show Campus Ladies and the so-called outrageous collegiate lives, the politicization of academia and the “vitriol reserved at this moment of American culture for professors.”
Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: Sundance 2006
by: Dan Leopard / St. Mary’s College of California
A discussion of the small screens, Sundance, and the future of independent film distribution.
Merging With Diversity, or, Got MLK?
by: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
Will the upcoming merger between the WB and UPN networks result in the whitewashing of what little African American programming network television has mustered thus far?
“Ad”ing by Subtraction
by: Chandler Harriss / Alfred University
How do you know you’re “too old” for advertisers (and therefore networks) to cater to you? Perhaps when you’re at home on Saturday night….
Lessons from the Undead: How Film and TV Zombies Teach Us About War
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
How zombies are used to make potent anti-war statements.
Public Radio Redux
by: Tom McCourt / Fordham University
Despite the availability of public radio in new forms, and the changing focus of programming, radio’s primary strength remains its status as the most local of media.
The Allusions of Television
by: David Lavery / Middle Tennessee State University
TV’s taking a bad rap within the halls of the academy. Here are a few reasons why it’s not just a “vast wasteland” for the literarily challenged.
War, “Incendiary Media,” and International Law (Part III)
by: John Nguyet Erni / City University of Hong Kong
The conclusion of a series on media intervention, this column questions the ways that media intervention and re-development has been practiced in post-conflict Iraq.