God is Watching, and So Am I: The Theology of Surveillance
Randy Lewis/University of Texas
Sacred security, Homeland Security, and the creeping militarization of the American church.
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What if Interactivity is the New Passivity?
Jonathan Sterne / McGill University
Bartleby, capitalism, the “Like” button, and the vicissitudes of participatory media.
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Robert Hariman/Northwestern University and John Louis Lucaites/Indiana University
A consideration of the affective substance of photographic surfaces.
Read moreA Good Day to Die Hard: Age, Action, and the Masculine Hard Body
Rebecca Feasey / Bath Spa University
An examination of aging male action stars.
Read moreAmerican Dreams – Israeli Formats: How Israeli TV Became a U.S. Success Story
Sharon Shahaf / Georgia State University
Considering the politics inherent within the current wave of U.S. adaptations of Israeli-based television series.
Read moreWaking People Up, pt. II: Because There’s a War on For Your Mind
Michael Kackman / Independent Scholar
Radio and the move of fringe politics into the mainstream.
Read moreHow My Poem Became a Short Film On TV (After Being Art In A Museum)
Thomas Swiss / University of Minnesota
A discussion of new media poetry and other digital collaborations
Read moreSubaquatic Frames
Nicole Starosielski / Miami University
Tracking the origins of the cinematic framing of undersea environments in order to draw attention to the historical specificity of this view.
Read moreGloved Hands, Pressed Uniforms, and Silver Trays
Herman Gray / University of California in Santa Cruz
Between the relations of subordination and domination in the American south and the English countryside.
Read moreThe Imaginary SXSWi: If SXSWi is a Dream, Then How Do We Wake Up From It?
Jonathan Hickman / Birmingham City University and Jennifer Jones / University of the West of Scotland
Is 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 […]
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Todd Schack / Ithaca College
On the narrowness of journalistic coverage of SXSW.
Read moreThe Future of Television?
Sharon Strover / The University of Texas at Austin
The 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 […]
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