No Arguments for the Elimination of Anything
Randy Lewis/University of Texas at Austin
The anxiety of immersive media communication environments.
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The Banality of Violence
Robert Hariman / Northwestern University and John Louis Lucaites / Indiana University
A consideration of banality as a way to index habituated violence which is concealed in paradigms of violence-as-spectacle.
Read moreFormatted to Fit Your Screen
Jonathan Sterne / McGill University
How do we determine the contemporary medium-specificity (or coherency?) of television?
Read moreShades Of Grey: Interracial Couples On TV
Erica Chito Childs / Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
While real-life interracial marriage remains low, interracial couples on television are increasingly popular. Do they signify increased racial acceptance or simply reproduce long-standing prejudices?
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Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln
It’s time for us to center down, appreciate our current existence and be sensitive to our real surroundings instead of being online all the time.
Read moreRace and Labor, Unplugged: Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer
Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi
On the representation and critique of transnational power relationships and transborder racialization in the movie Sleepdealer
Read moreThe Jeremy Kyle Show: Middle Class Territory
Faye Davies / Birmingham City University
How The Jeremy Kyle Show reflects cultural anxiety about the lower class.
Read more“We’re Grinding Like Everybody Else”: Race, Video Game Culture, and New Media Authorship
TreaAndrea M. Russworm / University of Massachusetts, Amherst
A thought-provoking deconstruction of the place of race and authorship in video game culture.
Read moreMothers on the Naughty Step: Supernanny and Reality Parenting Television
Rebecca Feasey / Bath Spa University
A consideration of reality parenting shows’ construction of motherhood.
Read moreMedia, community, and zones of consumption
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
Graeme Turner interrogrates how new media creates a new type of community.
Read moreDavid Lynch’s Wholes
Akira Mizuta Lippit / University of Southern California
Considering the anti-subjectivity of David Lynch’s transient figures.
Read more2 Broke Girls (Or, One American Dream with a Side of Alienation)
Doyle Greene / Independent Scholar
2 Broke Girls, Marx, and representations of the continuing conflicts and contradictions of class society within the American Dream.
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