A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A look into teen pregnancy, especially as seen on MTV, and the notion of public service.
Read moreThe ramifications in the hip-hop community of Frank Ocean’s sexuality.
Read moreConsidering Bedwin Hacker’s take on immigration as a degenerative form of cultural invasion, and hacking as a destructive form of vandalism against intellectual property or terrorism against the state.
Read moreSacred security, Homeland Security, and the creeping militarization of the American church.
Read moreAn examination of aging male action stars.
Read moreBetween the relations of subordination and domination in the American south and the English countryside.
Read moreA look at how the Internet has become a hosting powerhouse for thousands of amateur and professional videos, serialized web shows, direct-to-Internet films, minisodes, animation, documentaries, vlogs featuring blacks.
Read moreWhat does The Oprah Winfrey network say about basic cable’s reach for niche audiences? What can OWN tell us about contemporary practices of branding and celebrity production? And, how are these practices embedded in the structures of the basic cable marketplace?
Read moreThe authors contend that the narrative strategies employed by AMC’s The Killing would be best analysed through a feminist lens.
Read moreDel Rio argues that networked activism, abetted by social networking sites and media, continues to present a range of challenges and opportunities in democratic life for lone activists and advocacy groups alike.
Read moreTama Leaver investigates the evolution of a podcast movie joke (“Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins”) into a full-blown cultural phenomenon and DIY film.
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