I WANT MY GEEK TV!
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Global Frequency and the future of fan communities.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
I WANT MY GEEK TV!
by: Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Global Frequency and the future of fan communities.
To Have and Have not (You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone)
by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
The afterlife of Dead Like Me on Australian cable television and the pleasures and perturbances of watching an already-in-the-grave series.
What is Lost?
by: David Golumbia / University of Virginia
David Golumbia takes the Lost discussion one step further.
How Much Do I Love myTunes? Allow Me to List the Ways…
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
With the proliferation of mp3 players, CD burners and cheap CD-Rs the art of the mix is practiced now more than ever.
The Commitments
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
For better or worse, contemporary TV dramas ask a lot of their audiences.
The Value of Lost, Part Two
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
Building on his last column, Jason Mittell offers up a gripping example of evaluative criticism to support his claim that “Lost is the best show on American broadcast TV.
Television’s Aesthetic of Dead-Ness
by: Dana Polan / New York University
On “Jumping the Shark” and other ways popular culture frustrates and reneges on its promises.
The Televisual Tour de France on OLN: Confessions of a “Cynic”
by: Walter Metz / Montana State University-Bozeman
For Metz, Lance Armstrong winning an unprecedented seven Tours de France is not a matter of national pride.
Separated at Birth?
by: Justin Wyatt / ABC Television Network
The charms of The Andy Milonakis Show.
Teaching Television, or What I’ve Learned From Flow
by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
Rediscovering the excitement of teaching television studies.
Bussing the News
by: Vicki Mayer / Tulane University
A snapshot of how real people discuss the news in an unexpected public forum.
by: Faye Ginsburg and April Strickland / NYU
A closer look at Maori Television.