Defining Virtual Words: An Emerging Medium Collides With Popular Culture
Virtual worlds are becoming increasingly integrated into mainstream popular culture.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Virtual worlds are becoming increasingly integrated into mainstream popular culture.
A reconsideration of the universality of flatulence-based humor.
Read moreThe screen’s ubiquitous presence in the modern world has transformed our lives from how we interact to the way we move. In this transformation have we all become sitting ducks?
Read more“Guy-Coms” are making juvenile mascuinity hegemonic in U.S. culture.
Read moreAn look at daytime loan commercials reveals that the home we are encouraged to love and cherish more than ever has shaky foundations.
Read moreThe most striking change on white supremacist websites involves mediacasts and post links to other media.
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NBC’s resurrection of (The) Bionic Woman has prompted me to think through the contemporary relevance of bionics, and map its reintroduction against the popular imaginary of the mid-1970s.
Munt examines the fragmentation of the contemporary screenscape – and the screen-anxiety it produces
As television continues its transfer over to the digital and networked existence, the Internet will be playing an essential part of that process. Ensuring fair and equitable access will require understanding the nature of the Internet–which is both decentralizing and centrifugal.
Read moreTelevision’s Docile Subservience to the Law
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
The abundance of legal and law enforcement programming begs some exploration.
Read moreSmart Living in the Wired Home
by: Daniel Chamberlain / USC
The Wired Home is an exclusive demonstration of principles that will at best trickle down into high-end home building.
The Seven Steps to Getting a Job in Television
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
You want to work in television, do you? These seven steps might prove useful.