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E-Waste: Elephant in the Living Room
Richard Maxwell / Queens College-CUNY & Toby Miller / UC Riverside
Media Studies as a field must recognize the dire environmental effects of discarded electronics.
Read moreFree TV: White Spaces & Broadcast Flag
Patrick Burkart / Texas A&M
A look at the public interest in newly unlicensed “white space” for wireless networking and also a consideration of the impending copy protections threatening digital television signals.
Read moreDegrassi’s Always Greener on the Other Side: Canadian Television, U.S. Handling
Nafissa Thompson-Spires / Vanderbilt University
An analysis of Degrassi censorship practices for a U.S. audience
Read moreSUPPORT YOUR LOCAL CONGLOMERATE
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick / DePauw University
TV Tears: Learning Through Emotion in Popular Factual Entertainment
Lisa W. Kelly / University of Glasgow
A consideration of the use of open emotion in factual entertainment.
Read moreThe Sounds and the Business of Mobile Music
Ben Aslinger / Bentley College
A consideration of the recent advancements of mobile music technology and convergence.
Read moreQuality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin
Looking to the ways in which Quality TV (and Lost in particular) negotiates the territory between melodrama and elitist aesthetics.
Read moreAnother Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn
Martin Roberts / The New School
A consideration of the recent turn to the environmentally-conscious in lifestyle media.
Read moreA Specter is Haunting Television Studies
Jeffrey Sconce / Northwestern University
What do media studies and the current financial crisis have in common?