What if Interactivity is the New Passivity?
Jonathan Sterne / McGill University
Bartleby, capitalism, the “Like” button, and the vicissitudes of participatory media.
Read moreA Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Bartleby, capitalism, the “Like” button, and the vicissitudes of participatory media.
Read moreA consideration of the affective substance of photographic surfaces.
Read moreAn examination of aging male action stars.
Read moreConsidering the politics inherent within the current wave of U.S. adaptations of Israeli-based television series.
Read moreRadio and the move of fringe politics into the mainstream.
Read moreA discussion of new media poetry and other digital collaborations
Read moreTracking the origins of the cinematic framing of undersea environments in order to draw attention to the historical specificity of this view.
Read moreBetween the relations of subordination and domination in the American south and the English countryside.
Read moreIs SXSWi a Dream World? South by Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) is a dream. A trade fair in a desert, a pilgrimage, a Mecca, where stories are created and products are launched. It is a sign, a referent, a display. For those who attend, it is cultural capital, it is membership of a club – the ‘have-beens’ and the ‘have-nots’; for […]
Read moreOn the narrowness of journalistic coverage of SXSW.
Read moreThe Future of Television Amid all the doom and gloom coming from incumbent broadcasters as they face the fact that some of their spectrum may go away and that people are finding a lot of things to watch besides their channels, a perennial bright spot for most media industries is South by Southwest (SXSW). The Interactive Festival in particular has […]
Read moreIs the media case of Jeremy Lin really evidence of a post-racial America?
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