A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Let’s Get Small: The Year When the Record Industry Broke and Listeners Became Crazy, Mixed Up, Downloading, File-Sharing Freaks
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
As digital music sources expanded both their catalogues and user bases in 2005, music distribution continues its shift from the record store to the download store.
On The Set With Degrassi: The Next Generation ~ There’s Something to Be Said for Passion
by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
Cast, crew, and personal perspectives on teen TV that matters.
Stripping (Part 1)
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
Several dramatic series have gained popularity and success through the process of being stripped for syndication. Stripping what was originally a weekly show offers viewers a different experience, allowing them to watch a new episode every day.
Intellectuals
by: Toby Miller / University of California, Riverside
Why intellectuals don’t appear very often on U.S. news.
An Arresting Development
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What can the cancellation of Arrested Development tell us about the present and future state of the television industry?
What Color Is Your Scholarship?
by: Tara McPherson / University of Southern California
A look at academia’s slow adoption of new technologies for its own work.
Playboy Feminism? Hugh Hefner and The Girls Next Door
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
The Girls Next Door plays with significant ideological contradictions as it tries to address the prevailing popularity of the Playboy bunny image with a new generation of women while trying to remove any taint of sexual exploitation from its girls.
Devils in the Details
by: Christine Becker / University of Notre Dame
HDTV and the future of television — what are the possibilities?
What a Long, Bad Trip It’s Been
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
The voyeurism and surveillance of MTV’s One Bad Trip become inverted after the first season, leaving audiences to wonder; who’s watching, and who’s performing?
Football Talk
by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University, UK
Jim McGuigan examines why the ubiquitous presence of football chatter in the UK is a crucial source of pleasurable release.
Broadcasting Is Dead, Long Live Broadcasting
by: John McMurria / DePaul University
As Internet companies move towards increasing video content they have begun to look to television as a model. What lessons can be learned from the history of broadcast as Internet/TV convergence gains momentum? In 4 case studies of Internet/TV convergence, the issues of access, fair use and public initiatives are explored and critiqued.
Speculation with Spoilers
by: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
It is now possible to discover upcoming plot twists in your favorite television series with a little internet research. How does the proliferation of “spoilers” in online fan communities change the way we understand television spectatorship?