Mobile Mediality
Mimi Sheller / Professor of Sociology, Drexel University
Considering the sensory multiplicities of “smart” mobile devices.
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Hyperreal Gangster Hybridity in Snow on tha Bluff
Annie Major / University of Texas at Austin
Race and the aesthetics of authenticity in hyperreal television.
Read moreAlton Brown: Good Eats, mad science and masculinities in the kitchen
Irina Mihalache / American University of Paris
Alton Brown and men who play well in the kitchen.
Read moreHow We Talk About Media Refusal, Part 3: Aesthetics
Laura Portwood-Stacer / New York University
How refusing media becomes a part of taste culture.
Read moreThe Ambiguously Gay Duo of Sherlock: Sexual Aesthetics and the Limits of Cinematic Language
Camille DeBose / DePaul University
An examination of the role of sexuality on BBC’s Sherlock.
Read moreDirect-to-Consumer-Advertising and the Archipelago of Medicalization Black Hawk Hancock / DePaul University
Patients and consumers adrift in a sea of groundless for-profit medicalization.
Read moreIt’s (Not) In His Kiss: Gay Kisses, Narrative Strategies, and Camera Angles in Post-Network Television Comedy
Alfred L. Martin, Jr. / The University of Texas at Austin
An examination of the ways in which camera angles and narrative strategies are deployed in representations of same sex intimacy on network television comedies.
Read moreRachel Maddow, School Marm
Janet Staiger / University of Texas at Austin
How Rachel Maddow plays the role of the “school marm” to get her point across.
Read moreCould it Be? It’s Becoming Chic to be Geek
Mary Vanderlinden / Averett University
The Big Bang Theory, television, and geek tropes.
Read more Gaycoms in a Progressive Age?: Partners and The New Normal
Stephen Tropiano / Ithaca College
Obama, Partners, The New Normal, and the question of marriage equality.
Read more“A hole new fashion”: The Polo mint campaign in India
Shanti Kumar/University of Texas at Austin
Nestle, Polo, and the collision of high-end fashion with low-end merchandise.
Read moreBeing Guy Fieri: The “chef-dude” and the geography of a bro kitchen
Irina Mihalache / American University of Paris
Irina Mihalache explores Guy Fieri’s kitchen and demonstrates how the geography of the space and the objects in the kitchen transform a space for cooking into a space for play where even men with tattoos, 1960s red convertibles and electric guitars can feel at ease.
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